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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 2023 it begins 6/17!)

Jami Attenberg writes this lovely newsletter AND coordinates #1000wordsofsummer which is a feat in itself. I adore this newsletter and highly recommend it!

- Anastasia Selby

The Audacity.

By Roxane Gay

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

weightless

By Julie Gallagher

a raw look into eating disorder recovery

Monday Monday

By Marlee Grace

A weekly newsletter and monthly advice column on creativity and attention

Marlee writes vulnerably and beautifully, and shares her whole self through.

- Anastasia Selby

The Practicing Writer 2.0: A Newsletter from Erika Dreifus

By Erika Dreifus/The Practicing Writer Newsletter

Curating fee-free (AND paying) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

The Menstruant

By Finn Schubert

Essays, interviews & more from a gay man who loves having a uterus. (Right now: Postpartum edition.)

Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.

The Land Desk

By Jonathan P. Thompson

Western lands and communities--in context.

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Oldster reminds me that being old has many faces, and not all of them are filled with botox and fillers! I love the guest pieces as well as Sari Botton's writing.

- Anastasia Selby

Kate McDermott's Newsletter

A potpourri of life in my Pacific Northwest kitchen, garden, and home.

Kate's the pie queen, and her newsletter is filled to the brim with lovely recipes, observations, and just a general kindness that is refreshing and wonderful to read.

- Anastasia Selby

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Pushing My Wheel of Love

By Cari Luna

Your occasional Cari Luna

Body Grief

By Jayne Mattingly

Body Grief, Body Image, Chronic illness, Eating Disorder recovery, Disability

Arbuscular

By Guérin

Examining the branches between being—our relations, ruptures, and enjambments. Always free to subscribe. Only pay if you wish to support my work.

The Unpublishable

By Jessica DeFino

What the beauty industry won't tell you, from a reporter on a mission to reform it.

The Unpublishable is written by Jessica Defino, a beauty writer with a deeply critical eye, and I mean that is a very good way. This newsletter's focus is on deconstructing beauty culture in a way that can help others see the structures of oppression we live inside. Essential reading.

- Anastasia Selby

Patti Smith

The reader is my notebook

Culture Study

By Anne Helen Petersen

Think more about the culture that surrounds you

From the Desk of Alicia Kennedy

A newsletter on food culture, media, and politics from a San Juan, Puerto Rico–based writer. From the Kitchen for paid subscribers comes out on Fridays, with recipes and kitchen notes.