A writer's daily-style newsletter offering craft advice on drafting, research habits, and creative process, drawn from the author's own experience and references to poetry and literary theory. Readers get practical, reflective encouragement for writing fiction and poetry.
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Contreforme is a literary newsletter by Thibault Malfoy offering essays on reading, writing and the craft of imagination, with close readings of contemporary and classic novels. Readers get thoughtful analysis of authors such as Rachel Cusk, John Harrison and Tanizaki, plus advice on how writers can leave room for the reader's imagination.
A Substack on the craft and practice of writing fiction and creative non-fiction, covering storytelling technique, grammar and punctuation, and the writing life. Issues combine practical advice with historical and literary context, organised into topic-based tool-kits.
Lucy Sante writes personal essays on the craft of writing, covering reading as a working writer's discipline, the role of punctuation as tempo, and resisting narrow labels for writers. Readers get sharp, witty reflections on language, labor and the writer's life.
A newsletter offering craft advice for aspiring women's fiction writers, covering story planning, critique groups and narrative structure. It draws on the author's experience as a developmental editor and writing coach working with midlife writers.
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