Substacks recommended by Amy Turn Sharp

Recommended by Amy Turn Sharp

Bi-weekly musings by a former fashion and beauty editor turned podcaster and soon-to be beauty founder (phew!)

A considered collection of book recommendations, along with behind-the-scenes glimpses, favorite links, important Etsy discoveries and whispered dreams from Lena Dunham and the Good Thing Going team—published with intention rather than routine.

- Amy Turn Sharp

The Fainting Couch

By Alice Bradley

I'm not here anymore! I've moved to https://buttondown.com/alicebradley.

The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad

A newsletter for people seeking to transform life's interruptions into creative grist

Day Creature

By Dana Bernstein

A zine for our weird reality. For the star gazers, music listeners, dreamers and movers.

Very groovy human

- Amy Turn Sharp

For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

love this bb

- Amy Turn Sharp

Earth and Verse

By Alix Klingenberg

A companion to the turning year. Poetry, art, and rituals for those who want to live more creatively, more honestly, and more in tune with the earth.

Miranda July

Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

By Jeannine

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Recovering

By Holly Whitaker

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

THE APOCALOPTIMIST

By Jenna Baer

Fanning the flames of hope in the “quest for truth, goodness, beauty, and maybe the Holy," even if everything really is going to sh*t.

Wendy Wolf

Bobbi Brown

By BOBBI BROWN

More than Makeup: the Hows, Whys, Whos, and Hacks of Living a Fabulously Normal Life. Tips on beauty, traveling, wellness, and more to help you live a balanced and successful life from founder, author, and beauty expert Bobbi Brown

elke's newsletter

By Elke

Elke Govertsen is the founder of Mamalode magazine and is currently writing a memoir. This newsletter follows her musings on writing, parenting, empty/open nesting, grief, growth, and navigating this life.

A beautiful writer and human. I have learned so much from this woman over so many years. A gem. xo

- Amy Turn Sharp

Listening in the Dark with Amber Tamblyn

Creative-minded community and cultural catharsis. Full of feminism and always algorithm-free.

Jenny’s Substack - Let's art together

By Jenny Lawson (thebloggess)

Join me as I share a drawing a week to rekindle the joy of creating. Includes random musings on inspiration, motivation and how to keep pouring from your creative cup even when it feels like there's a hole in it.

love her forever + ever

- Amy Turn Sharp

Emphasize the Flaws

By Keith Hanlon

Keith Hanlon is a post-rock and ambient musician, producer and educator. His Substack follows the intersection of music, production, technology and art.

Music peeps will get tons of inspo here <3

- Amy Turn Sharp

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Entering The Lung

By Neko Case

Who are Nature?

Say Less by Larry Smith & The Six-Word Memoir Project

By Larry Smith

The art of short-form storytelling for self-expression, focus, and connection at work, home, and more .

Sherman Alexie

poems, short fiction, essays, opinion, audio, video

love his writing so much <3

- Amy Turn Sharp

Auraist. The best writers on Substack.

By Sean

Trusted by 50K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, and publish articles by world-class authors on prose style and AI writing. Plus the satire The Demon Inside David Lynch.

great resource <3

- Amy Turn Sharp

Austin Kleon

Weekly art, writing, and creative inspiration from the author of Steal Like an Artist and other bestsellers.

Sex and Style

By Sarah Ward

Sex and Style picks up where sex-ed left off. None of us got enough erotic education. I'm Sarah, a Sexologist and Somatic Coach, dedicated to fixing that.

Another Jane Pratt Thing

By Jane Pratt

From the creator of Sassy, Jane and XO Jane, a place for stories by folks of all genders, races, sexualities, creeds, sizes, cultures, ages, classes, kinks, quirks, and ports of call. Welcome!

Girls of a Certain Age

By Kim France

Style advice, shopping picks, pop culture, and opinion for over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from former Sassy staffer and Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief Kim France.

Life at the Bottom of the Canyon

By Kate Mapother

Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.

the braid

By Rebecca Woolf

a newsletter that explores the braided experience of mother, lover and self. personal essays & conversations on sex, death, love, loss, parenthood, paradigms, identity, culture and coming of age. written by rebecca woolf with special guests.

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

Design Mom

By Gabrielle Blair

A newsletter where we can be curious about everything.

THE BEST

- Amy Turn Sharp