The best writing & publishing Substacks

Please note: some of the Substacks listed below offer a paid subscription as well as limited access to free posts.

• Story Club with George Saunders
  Why do certain stories compel us to finish them? How can something entirely made-up change the way we think and feel about the real world? What can we learn about the mind by watching it read and process a story? The award-winning author aims to answer these questions through writing exercises, prompts, editing and writing advice, discussion and more.
   
• Craft Talk
  New York TImes best-selling author Jami Attenberg leads her #1000wordsofsummer project here, as well as sharing weekly writing & publishing advice and reflections on living a creative life.
   
• The Honest Editor
  Phoebe Morgan is a bestselling author and also Commercial Fiction Publishing Director at Hodder & Stoughton, making her the best person to share the truth about what goes on behind the scenes: how a large publishing house functions, why they do things in the way they do, and how writers fit into that.
   
• This Itch of Writing
  Author and creative writing teacher Emma Darwin explores how writing fiction, creative non-fiction, and sometimes scholarly and academic non-fiction, works for real writers with real lives.
   
• Kesia Lupo
  Having been in the book industry for over 12 years, Kesia Lupo has been on all sides of the publishing process as author, literary agent, and commissioning editor. She shares her first-hand experiences and knowledge, talking about everything from the importance of timing when submitting to how to write a good synopsis.
   
• The Shit No One Tells You About Writing
  A spin off from the popular podcast, hosted by literary agents Carly Watters, Cece Lyra and author Bianca Marais, this page is packed full of advice, guidance and support from publishing industry experts and insiders.
   
• General Observations on Eggs
  While novelist and short story writer Heather Parry doesn't only share writing and publishing advice on her Substack, her advice on how to stay sane in the publishing industry and why you don't have to write every day to be a writer is so insightful and generous.
   
• Dear Head of Mine
  Sean Delone, editor at Atria Books, covers the “biggest” news in books, explains modern classics and their influence on future generations of books, muses about editing and writing, shares great sentences and everything else book-related that you could possibly think of. 
   
• Amie McNee
  Amie's Substack is a place for anyone who wants to centre creativity in their lives, as well as the unvarnished truth about author finances.

What writing/publishing Substacks do you love?