Substacks recommended by Bertus | Guardening the spheres…

Recommended by Bertus

Forging Fiction

By Fiction Community

Helping fiction writers upgrade their skillset and amplify their audience

ArtPostAI

Artist and AI Researcher. Short, concise posts, giving guidance for artists navigating the AI art wave.

Until everything is continuous

By Michael Driver

To understand the least thing you would have to perceive the entire circumstance of all its accidence, until everything is continuous.

The Taste of Wild Water

By Lysianne Rondeau

My name is Lysianne and I'm a herbalist, teacher, storyteller, consciousness explorer, Earth ecstatic, translator, and lover of life. I continue the work that Stephen Harrod Buhner has started on this beautiful Earth.

Veronika’s Substack : Serialized Non-Fiction

By Veronika Bond

Welcome to Synchronosophy ~ A Rough Guide to the Feral Side of Life. How a map of the inner world landed out of the blue and taught me to make sense of life through the lens of subjective experience.

Rune Soup

By Gordon

The Substack for the Rune Soup podcast as well as various public thoughts and commentaries.

Veronika’s Substack : Wordcasts for the Symbiocene

By Veronika Bond

Welcome to Symbiopædia! You are entering the wildwordwoods ~ a verbiophile zone to protect precious words from doublespeak, identity theft and verbicide. Wordcasts for the Symbiocene go public on Wild-Word-Wednesdays

Enfant Terrible

By Remy Bazerque

Spleens, sins, and dad-related exhaustings from an award-winning writer/director, currently avoiding work on a screenplay.

Spirit Connections with Jenna Newell Hiott

Discover weekly Archetype and Tarot insights, dive into ancestral healing, embrace the Magic, and explore relationality across all realms.

Writer pilgrim Substack

By Writer Pilgrim by So Elite

Writer Pilgrim is a writer, journalist, poet & teacher who runs podcast Writer Pilgrim Sounds, TINAWW writers workshops in person/online, offers personalised poems, NaPoWriMo host, monthly song title poetry, weekly prompts & social hangout SPAWN.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Pain to Prose

By Gary Swift

Pain to Prose is the brand of chronically ill Sickle Cell patient Gary Swaby (Gary Swift). Here you’ll find posts about sickle cell, mindfulness and serial fiction. The thriller series Mere Immortal is currently publishing weekly under this imprint.

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

Such beautiful and sharp writing about her struggle…a memoir that reads like a novel…highly recommended when you are unfixed too…

- Bertus

The Climate According to Life

By Rob Lewis

Writings on the science, poetics and politics of the living climate.

Lunar Awards

By Winston Malone

Recognizing and sharing the best fantasy, horror, and science fiction on Substack. Periodically posting essays, interviews, and reviews.

Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

My living room is the world. Pull up a chair.

A Private Chef

By Will Cooper

Working as a private chef on a small family farm, deep in the countryside of rural England. I make vinegar, forage, preserve, smoke and ferment the ingredients around me and am also the guardian of two rather obstinate honeybee colonies.

Don’t read when hungry….this man is dangerous when it comes to food…

- Bertus

The Literary Obsessive

By Eleanor Anstruther

A show case for my work, I stream fiction before it goes to print, publish essays & interviews, and champion indie lit fiction by increasing visibility, challenging stigma, and proving quality.

A hill and I

By Susie Mawhinney

Lover of words and blurry photography - writing from a hill in SW France - self sufficient chaos, memoir, field conversations and obscurities

Ford Knows Books

By FORD KNOWS

Essays, stories & curiosities | Home of the novel "Lamb" - "The Books We ❤️ Club" - and "The Road to Published" - the choose-your-own-adventure approach to writing and publishing books

Fiction, mostly.

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Mel's Notebook

By Melanie Conklin

Weekly fodder for creative living.

100 Stories by Adam Nathan

Feel something.

Adam sparkles and manages to surprise me with each post, feel something twice a week, is his promise, and he keeps it.

- Bertus

How to Go Home

By Eleanor Robins

On imagination and the possibility that we’re living through a shift in consciousness, via the deep histories of humanity, art, and writing.

The Library

By J. M. Elliott

Check out all the best indie books published right here on Substack

Castalia

By Sam Kahn

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

The Great Simplification

By Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment.

Wonder & Dust

By Stephanie Thomas Berry

Wonder & Dust explores the mystical experiences embedded in creative work, with heavy doses of the natural world, and dreamwork. It's also where I share my process and work as a pastel artist.

From The Forests of Arduinna

By Rhyd Wildermuth

A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.