Substacks recommended by What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

Recommended by What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

Strength Coach & Founder of Athena Personal Training, Psychology Student, Trauma Survivor and Advocate. Here to write about the healing power of lifting weights!

Hype Yourself

By Lucy

🧰 A weekly email of tips, templates or thinking to help you get seen and get paid. Live classes, DM Q&A and bi-monthly directories of pitch opportunities.

Modern Odyssey Books

Modern Odyssey Books is an independent publisher. We publish literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and short story collections. We also produce literature-inspired puzzle books.

Philippa Perry

Hello, I'm Philippa Perry. I'm interested in your problems and dilemmas.

Tom’s Substack

By Tom Marshman

My personal Substack

North Sea Poets

We are a group of experienced poets based near the Scottish east coast. We run online masterclasses, and post here on poetry, poetics and the writing life.

The White Room with Leah McLaren

Weekly guided hypnotherapy audio and trance-related musings from Leah McLaren

The Poetry Shelf

By Sasha Neal

A poem a fortnight from my eclectic poetry shelves

With Bite

By WITH BITE

With Bite is the online home of Extra Teeth magazine, publishing the boldest and best stories and essays from Scotland and beyond.

Donna Matthew

A publication about mid-life metamorphosis. Sometimes, we need to crawl through the trenches of our life on bloodied hands and knees. The good news is, there's a party on the other side.

Loveconomics

By Laura Basu

Where the personal meets the political

How to Survive the Broligarchy

By Carole Cadwalladr

Girl power vs Tech bros

Permission

By Ingrid Fernandez

For me, it's permission to write. What will you give yourself permission to do? Permission features essays and flash fiction by Ingrid Fernandez, as well as contributions of interviews, essays, fiction, poetry and visual art by contributing artists.

Meghan O'Rourke's Substack

Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.

Writing Aloud

By Ellen Chapman

Fortnightly(ish) dispatches on family stories and silences, grief, mothering and writing a first draft of my memoir.

Miranda July

Off the cuff MJ writing/videos/picts/audio for paid subscribers and an ongoing All Fours Group Chat for everyone (not a book club! A place to talk about your own life.)

Sharing Secrets (and Other Useful Stuff)

By Liza Debevec

Sharing ideas, tools, and resources that make work and life a little bit easier for everyone.

Cerys' Substack: Food Action Music Books

By Cerys Matthews

My personal Substack

Chaotic Hearts Club

By Stacey Heale

Big, nuanced conversation for those who are rebuilding and reimagining their lives

Vibrant Visibility Challenge (September 2025)

By Claire

Home of joyful growth challenges on Substack. Build with clarity & confidence so that you can earn sustainably, share your work with joy and build a publication that truly supports you and lights you up. By Claire Venus, Substack Expert.

Through The Gentle Lens by Anna Considine

By Anna

Photo stories and slow living letters from a business grown gently, as a post-psychosis photographer living in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This Is Sophie Today

By Sophie

Rewilding and Slow Living for busy humans with real lives who want more out of life. No fluff, no hype, no noise - just us, grounded.

MOSS & MILK

By on moss & milk

care, mothering, matrescence & mother nature: togetherness, milk lines, motherwork 𓍊𓋼𓍊 writing prompts, directory of online writing events/courses, submission opportunities, etc. 𓍊𓋼𓍊 MY WORK: motherlore magazine & soil work

I love Genevieve's words and gentle energy. Her publication here on Substack promises so much for (m)others and those moving through their journey of matrescence. Her other 'baby' is Motherlore Magazine, which I implore you to seek out.

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With Love, Grief and Fury

By Salena Godden 'With Love

My new personal Substack - sharing poetry and memoir, notes and news, my latest books, my work in progress, and the 4am Writing Club

My personal Substack

A monthly newsletter from the editors of Gutter, Scotland's leading literary journal. Fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews and more.

The Anna Jones Newsletter

By Anna Jones

A weekly newsletter of brand new recipes and stories from best-selling cook Anna Jones

Pencil Led Life

By Lillias

I’m an artist with aphantasia sharing stories from my life as a picture book illustrator, writer, unschooler, and family cycle adventurer—join me for behind-the-scenes glimpses into my vibrant, pencil-led world!

I am a longtime fan of Lillias's visual work and so delighted she has landed here to share words, too (she also happens to play flute for the band I'm in...)

- What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

The Glasgow Wrap

Curation of Glasgow's top local news. Sign up to receive a free newsletter, delivered ad-free to your inbox at 7am daily. Paid subscribers get exclusive access to the Sunday Edition, the Weekend Guide and the weekly Culture Wrap.

Zara Gladman's Substack

Musings of an ageing millennial, comedian and Zoo-LOL-ogist from Glasgow.

Funny Glasgow wumman

- What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

Pockets of Wind Resistance

Curiosity, creativity and kindness. Moss, myth and old stones. The world as seen by a Scottish musician, writer, storyteller and geek.

MILK Glasgow

MILK is a melting pot of diverse communities. Our food blog serves as a collaborative platform dedicated to amplifying migrant voices. Come join the conversation!

Portobello Literary

By Caro Clarke

Musings from a literary agent by the sea

On the Write Track

By Jools Stone

My personal Substack covering all the many things that make life fun and worthwhile: travel, music, art, food, love and sex and sound mental health. Caution: Many diversions, tangents and gratuitous music links ahead. Go on, be a devil and dive right in!

Middling

By Julianne Robertson

How am I? Middling.

Holy Chaos

By Faith Newton

For parents and carers who want connection, understanding and a little lift of hope. Stories about searching for the sacred whilst bringing up nuerodivergent kids in a broken system.

The Autistic Perimenopause: A Temporary Regression

By Sam Galloway (she/her) 💕

Fiercely advocating to raise awareness on temporary fluctuations and regressions in capacity during our autistic perimenopause. A safe space for our community to unmask, co-regulate, and share knowledge to self-advocate.

Women Are Mad Substack

By Women Are Mad with Jen&Salima

If you’re loving The Women Are Mad Podcast, come revel further in the co-hosts’ view on life… An intriguing analysis of everything from half-drunk coffee to slack gussets, coming at you from lifelong friends, Salima Saxton and Jennifer Cox.

Alchemical wonderings with Jan Elisabeth

A nurturing space to tend to your story and the story of the earth that holds us. How do you want to feel? What story do you want to write? What story do you want to be? Come and be inspired.

And a Dog

By Dr Lily Dunn

I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.

Relevant Sense

By Shondra

Intersectional reflections, through poetry and essays, to cultivate understanding and connection.

Follow Your Gut

By Elin Petronella

The artist life and business for the dream-driven artists and writers who are fed up with gut-wrenching advice

Slouching Towards Bethnal Green

By Gillian Orr

Style, life, beauty, culture & motherhood. From east London-based, award-winning journalist Gillian Orr.

Practical Magic by the Goal Guru

By Meaghan Wagner

an accessible astrology newsletter empowering the witch in all of us and making everyday life more magical

The Burnout Rebellion

By Anna Rose

The Burnout Rebellion is for those ready to leave the 9–5 grind and build a life with more meaning, alignment, and freedom. This is not just a newsletter, but a movement for anyone who’s ever thought, “There must be more to life than this.”

News and Niche Narratives from R.M. McRitchie

By Rebecca McRitchie

Every now and again, I share what I've been up to creatively or dust off a short story from my archives written for so specific a purpose it couldn't be shared anywhere else.

the jackal

By Éadaoín Lynch

reflecting on writing practice, performances, and queerness

SoulStack by Beth Kempton

📖 Insights into the creative life from bestselling British non-fiction author Beth Kempton. ✍️Home of the SoulCircle writing community. All welcome ❤️ Global Top 5 Substack Education publication.

>more than zero with kayleigh bohan

By Kayleigh Bohan

Writing about still figuring this out. Writing about writing for fun and living with a brain and body that doesn't always cooperate. The goal is to write more than zero words, so technically I'm already there.

Graham Morgan Author- At home with my thoughts?

My life with schizophrenia, my family and Dash the dog. Thoughts, talks, excerpts from my memoirs & publications. Life under compulsory treatment in Argyll. Nature. Love. Gratitude.