Substacks recommended by Midstory Magazine

Recommended by Midstory Magazine

For Women Who Roar is an online journal featuring women's poetry and stories worldwide. Read new works each week as they come through your inbox. Enjoy and keep 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.

- Midstory Magazine

[B]OLD AGE with Debbie Weil

Sharing what it's really like to get old, from the blessings to the bullshit. Get personal essays, Q&As, advice on growing [b]older—all from author, book coach, and [b]old woman Debbie Weil. NEW! Join the community of [B]old Women writers & creatives.

We're All Getting Older

By Lou Blaser

It's the perfect time to work on being the best versions of ourselves. Let's talk about how to make that happen.

Confessions & Coffee

By Alice Kuipers

Death and your wild wonderful life. From a memoir and murder writer.

Beautiful writing from a beautiful midlife person.

- Midstory Magazine

Substack Writers at Work

By Sarah Fay

✦ The only expert guide to Substack—from a private Substack Growth Strategist ✦ Eliminate overwhelm and frustration, tap into the Substack network, and grow

Dispatches from Daily Life

By Jena Schwartz

Writing coach Jena Schwartz offers readers fierce encouragement for writing + life in the form of poetry, personal essays, and opportunities to write, reflect, and grow together.

A Few Good Things

By Dina Alvarez

Can the second half of life be better than the first? Midlife anthology coming soon.

The Reclamation Era

By Steph Sprenger

The intersection of midlife, single motherhood, and neurodivergence

Conversations About Friendship

By Nina Badzin

Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship is a newsletter and podcast about the highs and lows of friendship. Why isn't your friend texting you? She's mad at you! Probably not. But maybe she is? Friendship is tricky, even for grownups. Let's discuss.

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

- Midstory Magazine

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.

- Midstory Magazine

The Midst

F@ck middle age. You're in The Midst.

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"

- Midstory Magazine

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

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!

- Midstory Magazine