Substacks recommended by Katrina Donham

Recommended by Katrina Donham

I write about the strange alchemy that transforms suffering into art worth sharing. Your worst moments are your most important.

Painting With Lightning

By Skye Sclera

Reflections, musings and practical tips on neurodiversity, trauma and creativity. Like therapy, if your therapist was someone you'd actually want to grab a drink with.

Vita Incognita

By Laura

Working through the unknowns of parenting and of life

FREQUENT CRIERS CLUB

By Erin Shetron

crude attempts at staying tender when everything is scary and everyone is numb

breathe yourself home

By Isabelle

Mother Love Letters

By Violet Carol

Personal essays and poetry on motherhood and identity.

Violet's publishing of a wide variety of personal essays, poems, and features surrounding motherhood has been an impressive and joyful thing to witness. She's rooting for all moms, and we are rooting for her!

- Katrina Donham

Writing Elizabeth

By Elizabeth Austin

A solo mom’s messy take on raising teens after my daughter’s years in leukemia treatment. Challenging polished survival stories and exploring the raw reality of getting through.

Beyond the Bookshelf

By Matthew Long

Unique perspectives on life and literature through thought-provoking essays, captivating interviews, and influential books as we explore life's transformative journey.

Being in Motherhood

By Emma Del Rey

Personal yet universal reflections on being human while navigating motherhood, neurodivergence, and living a creative life ♡ Monthly gatherings to fuel your creativity and support your art ♡

Baby Brain

By Charlotte

The sort of things I'd talk about if you sat next to me at playgroup ☕👀

I love reading Charlotte's parenting stories! They make me laugh and cry and feel less alone in this motherhood journey.

- Katrina Donham

Writer, interrupted

By Mary Roblyn

Life happens. We get interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing, like grieving, is an act of love. Interruptions are not forever. I'm writing again. Join me! A Substack Featured Publication.

Supermom Dropout Club

By Stacy McCann

A place to validate your experience, make the invisible visible, and finally, finally, take up space.

Stacy has cultivated a Substack community that is inviting of all mothers, particularly those who have opted out of the myth that mothers can do it all. In addition, she presents sound advice and wisdom to moms who are struggling with their mental health.

- Katrina Donham

Parents Who Think

By Danusia Malina-Derben

Controversial reflections for parents who think deeper, are curious and socially aware, from an obnoxious mother of ten. Unashamedly delivered weekly for you to feel less alone in the forbidden aspects of parenthood.

—esque

By Ariane Elizabeth Scholl

"in the style of" —esque is a creative outlet—part-journal, part-newsletter, part-exploration. Filled to the brim with art, literature, interesting questions and an honest attempt at answers.

The Distracted Writer

By Alexa T. Dodd

The best distractions are where stories take root | A newsletter about storytelling, publishing, motherhood & more by an award-winning writer

Letters From Turkey Town

By Tina Hedin

What happens after the worst happens? After tragedy struck, we left home to travel the US. I write about love, loss and hope from the road.

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

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

The Shrieking Cactus

By Joy V.

A newsletter for people who are striving to maintain resiliency while navigating a loved one’s complex mental illness, by healthcare journalist and nature lover, Joy V.

CREATIVE. INSPIRED. HAPPY with Evelyn Skye

I’m Evelyn Skye—NYT bestselling novelist, podcast host, and believer in the quiet power of creativity & kindness. Subscribe for behind-the-scenes of publishing, reflections on storytelling & ambition, and what it means to live a literary life with heart.

One Tired Mother

By Amber Adrian

Advocacy for women in a world that simultaneously devalues, pedestals, and ignores motherhood.

AFTER/WORDS by Jessy Easton

Writing through the wreckage and the reckoning—the time I grew up in a meth lab and other uncomfortable truths.

The Noble Try

By Isabel Cowles Murphy // TNT

mining my inner conflicts: motherhood & autonomy ⚡️sovereignty & culture ⚡️ambition & surrender. mordant...with uplift.

RATS’s Newsletter

Non State Solutions for the New Normal

Your Attention, Please

By Melissa Mowry

Reclaiming the joy and magic of the human experience in a world that wants to keep us distracted.

The Workbooks

By Julia Garza

planner and journal inspo for living a creative life in the margins

Both Are True

By Alex Dobrenko

Funny, deep, relatable stories from a dad to two, husband to one, friend to all (free for all) + BATCAVE (workshops, cowriting, "community") for paid subscribers.

Human/Mother

Recommended by Katrina Donham