Substacks recommended by sneaker wave magazine

Recommended by sneaker wave magazine

Subcultures, outliers, the view from the fringe. A mix of reporting, essay and memoir.

Welcome to Let's Talk Memoir where you can find the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, my upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools & encouragement, & support for memoirists at all stages of the memoir writing process. Let's get memoir-y together!

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

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.

The finest source on the web for all things Memoir. We LOVE this Substack! :)

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Disordered Chronicles

By Patricia J Wentzel

I write about the world of behavioral health with an emphasis on serious mental illness. I write as a consumer living with bipolar disorder, as a family member, and as a support group facilitator and advocate.

PACT DESK SET

By PACT Desk Set

We Talk Craft. Seaside & Forest Grove Vibes, Always.

Access to an amazing series of craft talks, reading, discussions, and interviews from Pacific MFA alum.

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Creative Calabash

By Owólabi Aboyade

The Impermanence of Survival

By Jennifer

The Impermanence of Survival explores the internal conflicts found within all of us when confronted with loved ones who are suffering and how we navigate this world, how it forms us and how it changes us.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Critic at Play

By McKenzie Watson-Fore

I write literary criticism and cultural commentary focused on white American evangelicalism and the female experience.

Brand-new Substack from our Executive Editor McKenzie Watson-Fore!

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This Might Go Terribly | Amy Bee

Stories About Performing Anyway. Join Amy Bee, a lifelong anxious misfit, as she learns to tell true stories onstage—one "look-at-me but don't-look-at-me but why-aren't-you-looking-at-me-dammit" scaredy-cat step at a time.

Open Secrets Magazine

Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com

Ben Jackson, Word Guy

Majestically bearded writer living in the American Southeast. Co-host, Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry. Professor. Dad.

We love reading anything Ben writes!

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Dirtbag

By DIRTBAG

High/Low Literary Fiction. We Deliver Monthly.

David’s Lists 2.0

By David Long

A re-imagining of DAVID'S LISTS on Facebook. I'll pass along lists of books to check out, especially the neglected/forgotten sort. And I'll be talking about my Insane Reading Project: Reading at least one book published in each year.

Dispatches from the Apocalypse

I’m bad.

Raw and real.

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