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They write of the past, the future, and the present. Their work is embodied and deeply felt. Something about their daily writing unearths the societal lies that seek to bury our growth and stunt our evolution. They do all of this through the sumptuous use of language. A particular story still coursing through me is this emotionally precise but profoundly relatable piece.
Andrea’s writing is not only actionable, but deeply empathetic. Whenever I read her work, I come away more hopeful, more motivated than before. Her Substack is a great place to start your day.
If you are writer of short fiction and you are also on the submission rigamarole. This Substack community is the gorgeous perspective you need to write on and submit on. It flipped my brain from the idea of as a wall to it as jet fuel, a challenge, a call to action.
Unbound is right. There is a mysticism that blankets the craft of poetry like a London fog. This Substack maintains the magic of poetic expression while also clearing a path into its inner heart. There always craft workshops on offer as well as illuminating seminars. It is weekly stop for me on Substack. Highly recommend.
Love is not enough of a word to express my deep fondness for this publication. Whole pages, whole novels start from stunning sentences. Each week you will marvel and be inspired at the forceful magic of words that are strung together just right.
Here language is expansive. The theories on creativity, its source, its propellant, and its fuel, are deeply intriguing. Through form and content, Attasalina creates from outside any given box through multiple mediums. Their example, their writing, shows how one can remove limits from their art, from themselves. Reading their newsletter is an embodied experience that is worth every word.
The writing here is superb. Both the author Roxane Gay and the guest writers take off the limitations imposed on them, imposed on us and show how they can be blown to the wind. The human condition has never seemed so beautiful, so poignant, so expansive. You see our azure marble, in all its mysterious beauty, and not just your patch of grass. This personal essay in particular transported me. Highly recommend.
