Dispatches From The Shed

Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.

Dispatches and digests from Erin Boyle. Very rarely about tea.

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!)

Creative writing + community. No MFA required.

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

My personal Substack

Liminal states are the in-between—in other words, transitions. Personal essays on culture, art, and the liminal state of post-career midlife by a Gen X empty nester.

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

A miscellany of things we do, feel and encounter in creative and everyday life.

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

Open your world with poetry

The James Beard Award-winning narrative journal about the intersection of sustenance, nature, and the creative spirit (and sometimes, a recipe).

Imagination. Ideas. Creativity. Conversation. This is the life of the Mind.

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

Essays and conversations on books, culture, craft, language, and all sorts of madness. With a feminist writing group for founding subscribers.

When my daughters aren’t hiding my notebooks, I write essays about relationships, writing, and being agentic and grounded

essays, art, and inspiration from an American writer in Paris

The person asking a question at the beginning of a Tarot card reading. Or, a newsletter project by Alexander Chee.

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.

Notes on time, creativity, and pace.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2024 it begins 6/1!)

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Think more about the culture that surrounds you