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For Women Who Roar is an online and print magazine featuring women's poetry and stories from around the world. Read new works each week as they come through your inbox. Enjoy and keeping roaring!

The Shift With Sam Baker

By sam baker

Women don't vanish after 40. Who knew?! Amplifying and celebrating the voices of women in midlife and beyond by the former editor of Red, Cosmopolitan (and Just 17!)

Just discovered Sam's Substack. What a great read for midlife women.

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Literary Mama

A monthly newsletter from Literary Mama.

A wonderful source for incredible writing. Also a fantastic place to submit your writing and to find other writing opportunities.

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Substack Writers at Work

By Sarah Fay

The insider’s guide to success on Substack from an expert who knows—get subscribers, earn an income, produce your best work, and build the career you want. ✨ One of the Top 25 Literature Substacks.

Midlife Mommy, For Real

By Steph Sprenger

Navel-gazing drivel and witty realities about motherhood + growing up

Conversations About Friendship

By Nina Badzin

Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship is the place to discuss the highs and lows of friendship. Why isn't your friend texting you back? She's mad at you! (She's probably not.) But maybe she is? See what I mean! Friendship is tricky, even for grownups.

Nina's advice is practical, fun, and smart. We love her podcast!

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For Dear Life with Maggie Smith

A newsletter about writing & other things that make this life dear—from the poet, not the dame

We published an essay by Maggie in our Mothering Through the Darkness, and we love everything she's written, especially YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL.

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The Midst

The gateway drug for the modern midlife experience. Also an independent media project by the makers of Venus Zine and Jumble & Flow.

Girls of a Certain Age

By Kim France

Style advice, shopping picks, pop culture, and opinion for over-40 women and the over-40-curious, from former Sassy staffer and Lucky Magazine founding editor in chief Kim France.

Kim France's Substack about being stylish and informed at "our age"

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Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

The TueNight Social

By TueNight

A grab-bag of Gen-X goodies: midlife stories, pop culture, and a community for grown-ass women

The Practicing Writer 2.0: A Newsletter from Erika Dreifus

By Erika Dreifus/The Practicing Writer Newsletter

Curating fee-free (AND paying) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

Erika's resources are amazingly helpful to any writer. We highly recommend her newsletter!

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Men Yell at Me

By lyz

Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell.