The Long Climb

A membership community for midlife women who want to write, connect, and grow on Substack, from the editors of Midstory Magazine.

Investigating the interconnections among politics, media, entertainment, technology, and culture.

"The Mrs. Maisel of menopause!" I'm a certified perimenopause educator who blends science and humor. Are you over 40 and haven't felt like yourself lately? Stick around and learn why the biology of perimenopause may be making you feel like crap.

A collection of the finest newsletters with fewer than 1,000 subscribers, with special love given to the under 500 subscriber stacks out there.

I'm not here to sell you anything bought or processed, you know, as a career. I’ve found that writing honestly about my life has connected me with others in a most meaningful way. I would love to learn from you as well, let’s get real together ❤️

My personal Substack

the black wolf stalks again

I'm a stay-at-home ogre who writes about politics and family. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll leave angry and informed. Welcome to The Ogre Nation!

This is a place for twice weekly musings about my life, pop culture, politics, and whatever people are talking about. What are people talking about???

Once upon a time I worked in magazines. Now I’m writing about life as an Expat in Amsterdam.

'Bad' mothers are regular women who subvert the one-dimensional patriarchal ideal of womanhood. Feminist musings from writer and researcher Monica Cardenas.

A home for writing by women about life, love, and loss at midlife, from the editors of the HerStories Project.

My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyond from a rural progressive point of view.

How much do childhood wounds shape who we become? What does it mean to heal? How can you be a deeply feeling person in this world and not lose your mind? We'll get into all of that and more. Thanks for spending some time with me.

Permission to live your best life and advice on how to do it, from a bestselling author of sweary self-help. (Me!)

I write about politics, the arts, and something else that interests you.

Wonkette is filthy, hilarious, liberal news. YOU CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!

A place to feel less alone, less unacceptable, and less Less-Than.

Fiction, memoir, poetry, and cultural commentary are my primary subject matter, with a particular interest in music, art, and artful ways of life.

All the best recipes, common sense cooking tips, and ways to fall back in love with food from 3x NY Times best-selling author Michelle Albanes Davis 🏳️‍🌈. For curious people who love to eat, cook, get in their feelings, and talk a lil sh*t.

Deep thoughts and petty bullshit about feminism, pop culture, and the human condition by journalist Vivian Manning-Schaffel. Gen XXX. Unbothered.

Where Art Meets Psychology. We are not all "tortured geniuses" and art isn't always therapy but there is so much richness and connection and magic in the in between. Let's play, communicate, and learn there.

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!)

A monthly newsletter on Proust, the reading life, and other beautiful woman things

Scratching away at the experience of being human.

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Non-fiction horror stories. Politics, history, travel.

Thoughts, free-writes, a poem or two, an essay here and there, upcoming book chapter previews. Live, from my little adobe at the bottom of the canyon.

Craft insights, playwriting techniques, and submission opps—for writers at every stage of the journey.

A delightful weekly newsletter that is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant & often full of useful recommendations & weirdly enchanting ideas

News and discussion on trans legislation and life.

New York Times bestselling author Kirsten Powers offers fresh thinking about how we can make big changes in our lives, communities and country.

Reasons Not To Quit is what it says on the label: insight, humor, and a little bit of asskicking every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from writer/editor Hanne Blank Boyd.

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

A weekly newsletter of mental health musings from a New York Times best-selling author who has a master's in psychology and has been mentally ill since childhood!

Examinations of body image discourse and body culture. Plus: How to feel better in and about your own body.

your dose of news, minus the depression

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

Former site of The Reframe, now hosted by Ghost at the-reframe.com

Who are Nature?

Examining current cultural trends through the lens of addiction, recovery, alcohol, and all the other drugs like your smartphone

A newsletter on politics and culture, money and power -- telling the truth without fear -- from Anand Giridharadas

one dramaturg rounds up one week in theatre news, reviews & takes. new edition every Friday.

Advice and wisdom from Heather Havrilesky, published since 2012 (formerly at The Awl and NY Magazine). Paid subscribers receive 1-2 weekly posts on how to navigate our broken world with compassion, realism, and an open heart.

All things abortion. Feminist commentary & community.

Essays by Heather Havrilesky, Ask Polly columnist and author of Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage (2022), What If This Were Enough? (2018), How to Be a Person in the World (2016), and Disaster Preparedness (2011)

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