Reading bundle: fiction writers on Substack
Reading bundle: fiction writers on Substack
Discover human-curated Substack feeds and recommendations.
In the current digital landscape, finding new ideas, topics, and people can be complicated and time-consuming. This is what the “Reading Bundle” series is hoping to resolve: a faster, human-curated, way to discover new things.
In this first edition, we will present a few fiction writers who started their newsletters on Substack. Substack automatically generates an RSS feed for each of its publications, which makes it easy to subscribe to them in Omnivore. For each entry below you will find an RSS feed link. Right-click, click `Copy Link Address`, and then paste these into Omnivore to subscribe to the feed. For details on subscribing to RSS feeds in Omnivore, see this article.
Later edit: Because Substack has the paywalled option for articles, some RSS feeds will not show those articles. For a complete experience, we recommend subscribing with the custom Omnivore email.
Salman Rushdie - Salman's Sea of Stories
In the first post made on Substack, Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, wrote: “Stories are very near the heart of human nature. We are the story-telling animals.”
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Story Club with George Saunders
“The fun of it has been reading the comments,” Saunders says. “People are so honest, earnest, and heartfelt. Somebody will confess to having a certain blockage, and it’s hard for me not to respond to their comment, or come up with a writing exercise to help them. That’s going to be the thing that allows me to keep doing this for a long time, just getting in there and mixing it up wherever people are.”
via Esquire.
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Plot Spoiler by Chuck Palahniuk
The author of Fight Club's Substack, Plot Spoiler brings you “exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time”.
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Unmapped Storylands by Elif Shafak
The Turkish-British writer wrote in the intro of her Substack that “Words can get you in trouble. Words are not free. And yet, words matter. Stories matter. Silences, too. Stories bring us closer. Silences keep us apart.”
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Jami Attenberg’s Craft Talk
Jami Attenberg, best known for the 1000 Words of Summer project, writes about writing, creativity, and productivity, and is the author of New York Times bestselling books The Middlesteins and All Grown Up.
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Roxane Gay, The Audacity
Roxane Gay is a writer, editor, cultural critic, and podcast host. She is writing the “Work Friend” column for the New York Times. The Audacity is a book club and a conversation about books.
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Patti Smith by Patti Smith
Patti Smith is a singer, author, visual artist, and influential punk-rock icon.
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Epigraph to Epilogue by Kat Howard
A fantasy and horror writer, Hat Howard is the author of An Unkindness of Magicians and A Sleight of Shadows.
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Cheryl Strayed's Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
The author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough. Her newsletter, Dear Sugar is an advice column, started on the website The Rumpus, and has inspired a podcast for the New York Times, Sugar Calling in 2020.
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A Writer's Notebook by Summer Brannon
Summer Brannon is an award-winning journalist and author. Her first book, The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America, discusses the environmental conflict around the Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California. The second book, High Heel, part of the Object Lessons collection from Bloomsbury, is a meditation on feminism, feminine identity, and gender.
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The Elysian by Elle Griffin
A journalist and writer, Elle Griffin holds degrees in Fashion Merchandising and French and another one in Mariology. In her newsletter, she writes about capitalism, utopia, and humanity.
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This list is not intended to be an exhaustive one. There are many other writers who have a constant presence on Substack and elsewhere. Many writers have blogs hosted on their own websites, and most of them also have RSS feeds available. You can use a tool like Thirdspace Discovery to determine if a website has an RSS feed, and you might often be surprised which ones do.
Take this article as a starting point for finding new ideas, worlds, and connections, and share with the Omnivore community what you find, if you’d like. Join us on Discord, or comment below!
Editing and proofreading by Steen Comer.