Substacks recommended by Yasmin Chopin

Recommended by Yasmin Chopin

I'm Amanda, animal care-giver, artist and writer, sharing the lessons animals have taught me while spreading dopamine far and wide.

If you love animals, you'll love this Substack. I'm learning something new with every post.

- Yasmin Chopin

(Re)Trace

By Julia Webb-Harvey

Tracing the imprints in landscape, place, image, memory. Turning them over and watching where they settle.

Julia is a writer and researcher interested in Art and Place. She has a keen eye and an independent view.

- Yasmin Chopin

The Postcard Club

By Martin

The Postcard Club rethinks travel blogging by offering weekly, authentic 3-4 day travel snapshots from different voices around the world. Each story is like receiving a postcard, providing a personal and unique glimpse into a part of our world.

This Substack is set up to be collaborative. Such a good idea.

- Yasmin Chopin

Journal Your Path

By Jennifer Zarin

Journaling prompts and personal essays, musings on creativity, identity, grief and life from a heart-centered Expressive Writing Facilitator, Writer, Creative Arts Therapist and Singer based in New York City. Connection, authenticity, empathy.

Jennifer's posts facilitate the craft journalling, and she gives gentle encouragement.

- Yasmin Chopin

Writers' Hour Magazine

By London Writers' Salon

A global weekly writing contest and magazine from the team behind London Writers’ Salon. New contests each Sunday. Subscribe to enter and write with us!

Our Natural Place with Felicity Martin

Seeking fulfilment by deepening our connection with nature, landscape and the wildness inside. A perspective from rural Scotland.

Felicity has a wealth of knowledge. It's good to read about the landscapes she loves.

- Yasmin Chopin

Living Elsewhere

By Gregory Garretson

Outside perspectives on the world, with all its craziness and beauty.

The Culture Dump

By Dr. Rebecca Marks

Weekly essays on art and visual culture.

Rebecca gives us short timely well-researched posts on art and art history.

- Yasmin Chopin

A R T I S T S in R E S O N A N C E

By Julia Adzuki

Off-grid in the Swedish forest, building a center for Artists in Resonance - a place for somatic, sonic, ecological and relational art to grow and nourish the wild.

Julia's lifestyle is intricately woven with the landscape. I admire her unique way of communicating.

- Yasmin Chopin

Treefaring

By Donna Fisher

Join me for stories — real and imagined — about life, writing, nature, and the quiet moments that shape who we are.

Donna writes in the most magical way about self, growth, and nature.

- Yasmin Chopin

Hinterland’s Substack

By Hinterland Magazine

Hinterland is a print and digital magazine dedicated to creative nonfiction. Follow us for creative writing tips, recommendations and updates about the magazine. Edited by Andrew Kenrick and Yin F. Lim.

Hinterland champions creative non-fiction in print and digital formats. Andrew and Yin succeed in showcasing innovative and inspirational writing.

- Yasmin Chopin

Impermanent Joy

By Julie Snider

A newsletter chronicling my journey as a writer and the moments of joy that inspire me.

Beautifully thoughtful words from Julie.

- Yasmin Chopin

Crooked Roots

By Stacy Boone

A place of self-exploration with nature as the backdrop.

Nature and Place come together in this beautifully curated Substack.

- Yasmin Chopin

Place Matters

By Tim Cresswell

Exploring our place in the world with Tim Cresswell

A Time and a Place

By There's a time and a place for that...

....there's a time and a place for That Sort of Thing (and it's definitely not here and it's definitely not now!). Creative provocations on poetry, place writing, the inappropriate, the out-of-context, the bizarre, the beautiful, the lost-and-found.

Pilgrimagic

By Dru Jaeger

Your purpose is the path, so make every step meaningful. Pilgrimagic is your guide to walking, wellbeing and wonder.

Dru takes us on walks then encourages us to be still, so we can fully enjoy the natural world.

- Yasmin Chopin

Dacha

By Parisian Library of Delights

Mon Substack personnel

Dacha writes about places we think we know, but really we don't know them as well as we thought.

- Yasmin Chopin

About Mountains

By Ronald Turnbull

walking across them, climbing up them, writing about them

Ronald is an experienced walker and climber and generously shares his experience in this Substack 'About Mountains'.

- Yasmin Chopin

Earth Hope🌎

By Amanda Royal

Collecting environmental success stories from around the globe, because hope is the foundation of progress. Writing solutions-based eco-news seasoned with media critique. Focusing on solutions. Inspiring action.

Moving Mountains

By Louise Kenward

Writing and connection with nature, from the small (and slow) to the vast.

This Itch of Writing with Emma Darwin

All about fiction and creative non-fiction: writing it, reading it, teaching it and occasionally hating it

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

Ann's wide knowledge of history and literature threads through essays that tell of women's lives. And I love that this 'stack focuses on Cambridge!

- Yasmin Chopin

Travel Doorways

By Clarice Dankers

Building cultural bridges through personal stories and photographs on travel, nature and expat life in Europe

A Photographer's Life in Provence

By Joanna Maclennan

I am an Interiors, lifestyle, travel and portrait photographer living in Provence. Come and join me on my journey as I discover the world of Substack! A dose of photography, Interiors and travel in France and beyond.

In the Jungle of Cities

By Mark Hobbs

An online journal dedicated to urban history, told through a miscellanea of stories, ephemera and memories, recounting places old and new, lost and found.

FLOW : Letters from the moss

By Michela Griffith

The tranquility you need today. Evocations of wood and water from Scotland.

Reading Michela's Substack is like taking a breath of fresh air.

- Yasmin Chopin

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Writerly Things with Brooke Warner

I am an author advocate, publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, book industry insider, and champion to writers who show up to the page because they must.

Chez Hanny

By Hannah Ashe

Finding creative rhythm and throwing out the career rule book. Writing and podcasting on creative career change, interior design and living a multi-hyphenate life.

Hannah shows us a slice of London life - with style.

- Yasmin Chopin

This Party's Over

By Iain Robinson

Notes from the brink. . . place writing, nature writing, personal essays, books and more.

You Are Here

By Charlie Hunt

Reflections and research on place, politics, poetry, and more.

Charlie provides a personal and refreshing view of place; he takes poetry, travel, and politics, and mixes them up.

- Yasmin Chopin

Shelly’s Scribblings

By Shelly Dennison

Books and Bedfordshire - from quick reviews to deep dive essays and anything in-between.

Fieldfare

Print journal celebrating our connection to place—a longer, slower read.

Nomadic MidLife - an international travel adventure

By Sherry Chidwick

LESS STUFF, MORE STORIES. As a minimalist, monogamous, midlife nomad who sold everything to travel the world in a big yellow adventure truck, I tell longform stories of the quirky people and places we encounter on our path.

Londonist: Time Machine

A geeky, cheeky, thrice-weekly digest of London's history.

I live within a short train ride of central London but even if you're on the other side of the world you'll love these insights into the city's past and present.

- Yasmin Chopin

Those Who Wander

By Justin S. Bailey

A newsletter for readers who want to learn about the meaning of travel, why we seek adventure, and how to incorporate more of it into our lives. In short, the anthropology of wandering.

Marvellous writing from Justin.

- Yasmin Chopin

Behind the Chapters

By Connie Briscoe

A New York Times bestselling novelist's candid look at the creative process, storytelling craft, and the publishing world.

Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay

Your definitive guide to Substack growth from the world's leading Substack Strategist Sarah Fay ✦ A top-10 bestselling, featured Substack ✦ Let’s begin…

Edinburgh Minute

By The Edinburgh Minute by Michael MacLeod

Curation of Edinburgh life, news, culture and communities. Join 20,000+ locals on the mailing list to get a free 7am daily news roundup. Or help keep this going for a fiver a month. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Cartes Postales

By Rachel Ifans

Anything French. N'importe quoi. Mostly travel.

Rachel brings us interesting snippets of life from France in these beautifully written 'post cards'.

- Yasmin Chopin

The Villager

By Tom Cox

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

Audacious Women, Creative Lives

By Anne Boyd / Audacious Women

Inspiration from audacious, creative women in the past , plus opportunities to connect--because we're all in this together.

Anne has taken big steps to change her life and I'm following with excitement and interest. We are never too old to do something audacious!

- Yasmin Chopin

Before We Leave with Bee Lilyjones and Friends

By Bee Lilyjones

Because moving home is a physical and emotional journey.

I like the variety in Bee's posts, and the way we see the world through her eyes.

- Yasmin Chopin

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.

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

Lia puts me in touch with the world in a different way from the day-to-day, and I like it.

- Yasmin Chopin

Noted

By Jillian Hess

Tips from the world's best note takers

Jillian Hess shares her research of authors' notebooks and working drafts, enabling us to peek into the history and practice of some famous writers and writing. All beautifully illustrated.

- Yasmin Chopin

Grow, Gather and Feast

By Hermione Blackshaw

Growing and cooking plant based food from my garden in Scotland. Seasonal growing guides, monthly musings from my garden and delicious recipes 🌱

Cosmographia

By M. E. Rothwell

Histories of the earth and the stars.

Three Wild Steps

By Lynne Wyness

Nature and place writing from the western edges of Dartmoor

Lynne Wyness uses her powers of observation to produce snapshots of the natural world in words that are well worth reading.

- Yasmin Chopin

The Gallery Companion

By Dr Victoria Powell

Art without the confusing art speak. Stories about all the stuff that artists explore and question: what’s going on, how we think and behave, and the role of art in our world.

Home & Place Writing

Recommended by Yasmin Chopin