The best Short Stories newsletters

A Substack of short fiction and serialized prose, including a continuing story called The Maria Chronicles, delivered as brief reads for the phone. Readers get atmospheric, romantic vignettes with a literary voice.

George Saunders hosts a community on how short stories work, with craft discussion and occasional author news. The excerpted issues are mostly announcements and personal updates about the Met Opera adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo and a bookstore event.