Substacks recommended by Mr. Troy Ford

Recommended by Mr. Troy Ford

This Substack shines a light on the unique place of relationship in the lives of writers: relationships with ourselves, our creations, our editors, our publishers, our families, or our pasts. The way we relate has a deep impact on our work. Join us!

Qstack | The LGBTQ+ Directory of Substacks

By Mr. Troy Ford

Qstack ❤️🍊💛💚💙💜 | The LGBTQ+ Directory, Community & Platform on Substack - SUBSCRIBE for monthly updates of queer links, interviews, and stories | COMING JUST IN TIME FOR PRIDE MONTH - JUNE 1

Collide Press

Art + Design + History = Past + Present + Pride

drop out

By C. Sky Uí Flaithbheartaigh

A queer coming of age story about growing up, fixing things you've broken, and accepting things that you can't fix. It's explicit, 18+, and not for the faint of heart.

Queerly Recommended's Substack

Newsletter and more for Queerly Recommended, a bi-weekly podcast with LGBTQ media recommendations from fiction critic Tara Scott and author Kris Bryant.

Love and Other Fictions

By Bryan Pirolli

Short stories about love among family members, queer love, ruinous love, and love that doesn’t quite exist.

NO ASTERISKS

By Tara Leigh Parks

NO ASTERISKS spins multi-genre fiction and essays like a dirty-mouthed kaleidoscope on the verge of a breakdown.

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

Resident scholar of belle lettres, Jeffrey Streeter, brings an ever fascinating rotation of personal stories, poetic reflection and generous erudition. I'd follow him wherever the muse takes him.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

Weekly Archetype and Tarot divination; plus rituals, ancestors, and magic on the relational path

Death & Birds

By Chloe Hope

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

What an improbable name for a Substack, “Death & Birds,” I thought, and how magical it has turned out. Every post Chloe writes is beautiful - astonishing accounts of compassion and kindness.

- Mr. Troy Ford

The Bite Of The Sun

By Mya Dexter

Welcome to my bi-monthly newsletter in which I will share my writings and celebrate other creatives feeding my inspiration. Showcasing art in its myriad forms as it fuels joy, connection and further creation.

Unfixed

By Kimberly Warner

When broken is the fix.

Subscribe to Kimberly Warner's Unfixed for deep insights into self-acceptance and healing, and check out her YouTube channel for original videos filled with brave personal stories.

- Mr. Troy Ford

The Curious Platypus

By Michael Edward

The curious musings of a curious creature

More than curious, more than a platypus, Michael is in a taxonomic category all his own, offering captivating stories and sincere insights to readers and fellow writers alike.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Tales from the Defrag

By Alexander Ipfelkofer

Fiction at the intersection between man and machine, a speculative journey through time interspersed with adventure, mystery, philosophy and the occasional alien. Stay awhile and listen.

Romping speculative fiction and pristine photograph - Alexander is like a tour guide of the multiverse.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Holly Starley's Rolling Desk

Guidance on ushering vision to page | Essays from the road | Ride, write along with an author/editor who roams

Always an adventure with Holly, citizen of highways and byways - subscribe for insights and reflections on a life less encumbered.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Guardening the spheres…

By Bertus

A both hands approach to becoming panoramic…

when hope writes

By Nadia Gerassimenko

I write about a smorgasbord of subjects, always with a dash of hope. if you love reading about humanity, literature, writing, cinema, video games, and other related and unrelated stuff, let's connect.

Nadia is the Fairy Godsister of Substack, offering gorgeous lyrics, poetry, reflections on movie and gaming, plus insights into managing chronic pain. She is a wonder.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Eleanor’s Substack

By Eleanor Anstruther

Short Stories, A Memoir In 65 Postcards, The Recovery Diaries, In Judgement Of Others, This Writing Life, Soundscape Stories

SLAKE

By Nathan Slake

Slaking your fictional thirst, weekly.

SLAKE lives up to its name, quenching your thirst for original, compelling, serialized SciFi and Fantasy fiction. Nathan is a most engaging and genuine writer, and one of the nicest guys on Substack.

- Mr. Troy Ford

The Bright Life

By Donna McArthur

Hear your inner whisper. Have the courage to follow it.

Catch & Release

By Ben Wakeman

A free-ranging collection of creative work in the form of speculative short fiction and novels, songs, essays, and multimedia made with the intention of connecting and inspiring.

Renaissance man Ben Wakeman's "Catch & Release" is the real deal: engaging short stories, a gripping serialized speculative novel "The Memory of My Shadow," and insights into his music and creative process. A Must Subscribe!

- Mr. Troy Ford

The Roll Top Desk

By Martine Proctor

Book news, stuff about writing and story samples

100 Stories

By Adam Nathan

100 Stories. One a month till 2032.

If I was going to steal someone's Substack and assume their identity... Criminally funny. Madly curious. Ridiculously sincere. Bon vivant ADAM NATHAN is the love child of Marcel Proust and Lucille Ball. SUBSCRIBE! Your life depends on it.

- Mr. Troy Ford

Weird Bookshelf

By Andrea C. Neil

an experiment in overthinking

What’s left

Family secrets, women’s and LGBTQ lives, travel, and writing in two serialized memoirs "If You Only Knew," and "Accidental Mentors," and two additional newsletters, "Wandering WordsWomen and "Memoir Story Craft," from author and wanderer, Annette Marquis

The Library

By J. M. Elliott

Check out all the best indie books published right here on Substack

The Matterhorn: truth in fiction

By Dr. Kathleen Waller

how to layer stories with ideas, culture, places, and texts ⬩podcast and original fiction from author and academic Dr. Kathleen Waller

Dr. Kate at The Matterhorn is brilliant and warm, generous in her engagement with readers, while running a Master Class on fiction with her own serial novel "A Hong Kong Story" as a living example as she goes. A top notch Substack! ⭐⭐⭐

- Mr. Troy Ford

In Search of Supreme Beings

By Troy Putney

Photos, Poetry & Prose inspired by the multitudes of sentient life our singular planet sustains.

Storyletter XPress Publishing

By Winston Malone

Join the indie community where you can get published, grow your audience, and read incredible stories all at the same time.

Ineptitudes

By Lindsey

This newsletter is for the socially-inept, non-conforming misfits.

FORD KNOWS

Recommended by Mr. Troy Ford