A newsletter about the silliness of (my) life, featuring everyday mishaps, telly, books, bad jokes and perhaps occasional observations about the Royal family (how DOES she get her hair so shiny etc). Cerebral stuff like that.
I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.
Master Substack, write, build your DREAM business with joy! Global Top 10 Publication.
Twice monthly space holding (co-working, workshops, teaching).
Weekly chats, podcasts. A bespoke membership to help you stay creative and grow on Substack! 💫
Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)
Where writers teach writers: the friendliest creative writing space around. Come and join Dr Lily Dunn and Zoe Gilbert in this creative experimental space: observations, hypotheses, experiments, chemical reactions. A safe space space to experiment.
A bestselling collection of work/life essays by Annie Ridout (non-fiction author, journalist for nationals, viral poet and Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter)
This is where I write features and stories about midlife. I'm a freelance journalist and writer for Good Housekeeping, I Paper and Daily Mail and regularly write about relationships, parenting, menopause, work and all the other stuff women deal with.
Top 40 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-analysis, perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland
New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.
Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.
A newsletter by the journalist and author Leah McLaren.
Weekly essays on life, love, the creative unconscious and the tragicomedy of being alive -- plus regular video interviews with writers.
An exclusive creative writing community blending feminist thinking with writing craft (memoir, non-fiction and fiction) and personal essays. Hosted by a Sunday Times Bestselling and Orwell Prize longlisted author.
Personal essays on intimacy and relationships, motherhood and family, and the never-ending creative process of writing to become fully myself, by the Filipina-Indian author of ASK ME HOW IT WORKS: LOVE IN AN OPEN MARRIAGE (Viking UK, May 2025).
