Substacks recommended by Clancy Steadwell

Recommended by Clancy Steadwell

Snaps

By Deirdre Lewis

sketches, flash fiction, musings and observations

Staccato bursts of vivid prose capturing memory and lived experience from an LA author.

- Clancy Steadwell

my so-called life

By Sudana Krasniqi

brief glimpse of how someone like me ends up like this

maydayhobby

Lyrics and stories :)

Disorder

By Peter Smetanick

Blending fiction with reality - Mental illness under the microscope - Short stories, poetry, and personal essays.

Summer Lightning

By Sachin

Essays on temporal shifts in culture and technology

Realist essays with a unique perspective that makes the mundane come alive.

- Clancy Steadwell

i hate these people

By daisy cashin

Figuring out the universe through some good old loathing and resentment. These are ill-tempered and ill-remembered love bits from the Shitstorm.

Soaring Twenties

By Thomas J Bevan

A triweekly newsletter and monthly magazine run by a collective of creatives, collaborating to make the internet human again.

The best collection of literature on Substack curated by the platform's leading flaneur.

- Clancy Steadwell

Automatic Writer

By Sean Thomas McDonnell

Horror | Noir | Speculative | Westerns

Diary of a Superfluous Man

By Fred

Stories, poems, essays etc. Mostly about women tbh

Mirth as Medicine

By Ana Bosch

Confessions of an Opinionated Oncologist

Cream of The Crop

By SLART

I write about my life as artist holding down a tech job whilst building a path to making art full time.

Heavy is the Headset

By Will Boucher

Weird fiction for weirder times.

The Midnight Vault

By J. Curtis

Unlocking worlds of sci-fi, horror, and the unknown.

Just Wonderin'

By James Worth

Wondering, as in, does anybody know what's going on? Fiction, poetry, essays, I am wandering in the dark toward some future hope. I'd like to find you there.

Dynamic Creed: The Sharp Edge of Fiction

By Victor David @ Dynamic Creed

One of a kind evocative creative fiction. Here you'll find unique stories of oddness and insight, multi-layered stories that require and provoke contemplation. Philosophical, beautiful, at times absurd.

Short stories with vivid setting and imagery, often carrying a political edge and insight to the dark corners of human psyche.

- Clancy Steadwell

Love and Other Fictions

By Bryan Pirolli

Short stories about love among family members, queer love, ruinous love, and love that doesn’t quite exist.

Romance, in all its forms. Historical, LGBTQ+, and beyond.

- Clancy Steadwell

my vape is dying

By Emma Newman-Holden

WORLD'S BEST FICTION

She's Gone Chilaquiles

By Anna Schott

essays, memoir, food analogies

Humorous memoirs of a woman who has seen and felt it all and plays pretty nice music as well.

- Clancy Steadwell

Soulja World News

By Magnetic Saviour

The truth is undisputed. Report to me for everything factual about the world and the war that we've been trapped in forever. The war for love, money, and power.

A real perspective of Black inner city life told in evocative prose and compelling narrative.

- Clancy Steadwell

Informal Fallacy

By JK Ghillis

FROM THE INTERSTICES

By From the Interstices by Stephanie Sweeney

Personal and lyric essays, flash fiction, short stories.

Erichka

Fiction. Short stories.

LEAVES

By Sharron Bassano

Short character-driven fiction, evocative travel tales, memoirs and laughs. Always free. 🌿LEAVES are guaranteed to be better for your mental health than the daily news or social media.