Substacks recommended by The Unhurried Reader

Recommended by The Unhurried Reader

Personal essays exploring the intricate relationships between life and literature through the profound narratives that bind them together, penned by a Navy veteran and trauma survivor reflecting on a lifetime of service and healing.

The Thread of Her Tale

By Bea

Reflections on stitching inspired by Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell Trilogy: a place to talk about the wrong side of the fabric.

The Shetland Witch

By Kate Macdonald

The Shetland Witch, or Atropos Wants Her Shears Back, is a slow-build novel about modern Shetland, four witches, some mythical entities and a malignant trow, by Kate Macdonald.

still sketching

By deborah vass

The adventures of an artist and printmaker walking and drawing in the Norfolk countryside

Calm, reflective observations with an artist's eye.

- The Unhurried Reader

Into the Deep Woods with James Roberts

Exploring the edges of wonder and the wild

Consistently wondrous and thought-provoking.

- The Unhurried Reader

My personal Substack

Words about a life on the edge

Snapshots of a complicated life, by the author of Twelve Moons.

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Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

They're both coming for you! (Just kidding, birds aren't coming for you)

Just Write, Right

By Feasts and Fables

A public provocation to compel me to write more

Come for the flash fiction, stay for the fun.

- The Unhurried Reader

Haver & Sparrow

By Charlene Storey

Weekly letters about slow, creative living from my island home in Shetland. Sharing everyday magic and memories, photographing the little moments & forever chasing the light.

Writing Days

By Avril Joy

A Celebration of the Creative Life

Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt

A newsletter and writing community exploring what it means to belong in nature, in landscape, in class, in grief.

On the art of writing and making time to write.

- The Unhurried Reader

Notes from the Potager

By Feasts and Fables

Seen through the eyes of Mrs Feasts, this is the story of life as it unfolds on our small farm in the Vienne Department in central France

June's Writing

By June Girvin

Welcome to the conversations. I talk about lots of things. Life, books, nature, knitting, or what's happening in the garden, sometimes memoir from 47 years of nursing. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend, sometimes on Wednesday too.

Down Clarty Lonnen

By Sue Reed

Clarty meaning muddy and lonnen meaning lane, which is where you'll find me, down the lane, writing about life as I find it, and bringing news of my writing journey.

The Villager

By Tom Cox

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

bimblings

By Josie George

To bimble means to travel slowly. Here you will find the thoughts and truths that I have a way of remembering and forgetting again, written down to try and help me learn. Here you will find a different way of thinking and being as I lose and find myself.

Encourage Meant

By 'Encourage Meant'

A regular burst of positivity inspired by The Encouragement Manifesto

Hookland County Chronicle

Fortnightly Hookland news for all citizens of the county

You'll never see things quite the same way again.

- The Unhurried Reader

Lia’s Living Almanac

By Lia Leendertz

Join me to mark and celebrate the seasons as they change

yarnstorm

By Jane Brocket

Welcome to yarnstorm, the sequel

kindling

By Alice Broadway

finding lost sparks, fuelling creative fires.

A Narrative Of Their Own

By Kate Jones

Discussions on 20th Century Women's Narratives and Contemporary Culture

Another Chapter

By Gaelle Jolly

Stories of love and grief, reinvention and everyday magic in the aftermath of loss – for anyone looking to write their next chapter

Seeds, Weeds and Wildflowers

By Jo Taylor

A journal where the natural world meets hearth and home, and the making that happens in between. For seekers of untamed edges, the imperfect and the meaningful.

Peak Notions with Laura Kennedy

The digital world is full of voices (often loud and disgruntled), but this is a place where you won’t find the obvious perspective, or the one you see everywhere else. By an Irish writer, editor and ex-philosopher.

Footnotes and Tangents

By Simon Haisell

A community for curious and creative readers. Slow book groups reading Leo Tolstoy and Hilary Mantel. Fiction by Simon Haisell.

Simon will always make you think differently about the books you read.

- The Unhurried Reader

Beyond Bloomsbury

By Victoria K. Walker

Historical artist and writer biographies.

Fascinating biographies, drawn together in one place by a sympathetic hand.

- The Unhurried Reader

The Gardening Mind by Jo Thompson

The original, go-to gardening community with how-to tips, visits to inspirational gardens and flower shows, plant advice, and garden design guidance from an RHS Chelsea award-winning garden designer.

Methods and Madness

By Meredith Lewis

Notes about creativity.

To feed your creativity ...

- The Unhurried Reader

Life Is Not Whatnot

By Cassie

Life, death, and pop culture references you probably won't get.

The Cure for Sleep with Tanya Shadrick

Writing prompts for waking up, breaking free & making a more creative life. Explore and respond to three seasons of themes from author & editor Tanya Shadrick. Discover like-minds and see your words published alongside other aspiring writers...

Tanya is a facilitator of dreams and an enabler of action.

- The Unhurried Reader

A Writer's Notebook

By Summer Brennan

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

The Common Reader

By Henry Oliver

Essays for interesting people about talent, literature, and biography. "One of my favourite Substacks." Helen Lewis