The best Serial Fiction newsletters

Cristian Mihai publishes short-form fiction in serial installments, each issue opening a new story with a distinct period and setting, such as a post-apocalyptic radio scene, a 1986 low-budget film set, and a rural wedding. Readers get dense, sensory, carefully crafted prose with strong concrete detail and a literary voice.

A fictional-style serial narrative in which a researcher transcribes recovered notes of two missing academics, following archival detective work across Yorkshire and Cumbria. It reads as an atmospheric mystery serial rather than a news or practical newsletter, with dated issues and an in-world framing.

A serialized epic fantasy novel, posted chapter by chapter, following women in the grey, class-stratified city of Cirrus as they plan escapes and confront power, abuse and secrets. Each issue is a chapter from a single ongoing arc with a close third-person, emotionally intense style.

Serialized erotic science fiction following a queer cast through Europa University: Admissions, with themes of kink and polyamory set from Jupiter-lit streets to subsurface ocean depths. Each issue pairs chapter excerpts or teasers with author updates on the publishing schedule and recommendations for similar adult fiction.

Neurovia is a serialised literary thriller following Julian, Mateo, Theo and other students working in an emergency-response operations centre as they coordinate ambulances, hospitals and power supply during a crisis. Each issue continues the story with close third-person narration, focusing on the characters' moral choices and the tension between competing demands.

Legundo is a serialized fantasy journal told in first person, following a student mage at a dragon academy through a sequence of conflicts, friendships and magical discoveries. Readers get an immersive, emotionally charged story that unfolds issue by issue rather than practical or news content.

Luna Chai's newsletter serializes the Airlean Tales fantasy fiction, following characters through court intrigue, battles between gods and mages, and comic misadventures. Readers get ongoing installments with a whimsical, character-driven voice and occasional notes from a traveling artist.

Joe Milan, Jr.'s newsletter serialises his novel The All-American, here a mythic fantasy called Icky, delivered chapter by chapter. Each issue offers vivid, dreamlike prose about a narrator who wakes in a cave and then on a shore, with Hades and the afterlife in the background.

Rivers Flow is a serialized fiction newsletter, currently running "The XO Chronicles" as a sequence of chapters with a whimsical, sci-fi adventure tone. Readers get new instalments of an ongoing story about Art, Leon and the robot H/O2, featuring unusual worlds, tea rituals and action sequences.

A newsletter delivering installments of the serial fiction 'Denver Cereal', currently in a long-running chapter released in parts. Readers get new fiction excerpts issue by issue, with little surrounding commentary.