Salted | Luisa Skinner

Recommended by Luisa Skinner

Weekly notes from an artist's studio, including pages from my mixed media art journal, works in progress, notes on the creative process, and other ideas that capture my interest.

Huge thanks to Shinjini for the constantly beautiful inspiration to show up to our art, our writing, and our whole creative journey ✨️

- Luisa Skinner

Yarning On

By Isabelle Elena

An MA student using books, crafts and a lot of tea to make life more joyful.

Brand Seasons®

By Brand Seasons ~ Sarah Robertson

A space for nurturing our curiosity + exploring the Brand Seasons® in our independent businesses + creative practices.

Where The Wilde Things Are by Brittany Wilde

Deep, provocative, and contemplative memoir-style writings about life, love, purpose and wellness.

On the Outside (Looking In)

By Karen

Words about my thoughts, ideas and observations from life on the outside, looking in

Fleeting Temples

By Danusha Laméris

Are we living inside a poem? A place to consider the altars of the ordinary.

because she has to

By Janelle

I'm not ready, but I've started writing here anyway. I'm still working it out but likely to be about writing, mental blocks, growth, things that spark joy and my cat.

Janelle is the most talented nature writer. Watching her honest journey and reading her generous words is always a pleasure.

- Luisa Skinner

Haver & Sparrow

By Charlene Storey

Weekly letters about slow, creative living from my island home in Shetland. Sharing everyday magic and memories, photographing the little moments & forever chasing the light.

The Good Creative Life

By Elin Lööw

Words, stories and inspiration for a creative life that is good on the inside

Notes From the Margin with Wendy Pratt

Notes on nature, writing, literature and art, with poet and author Wendy Pratt.

A Writing Life

By Lulah Ellender

Notes from my writing desk, garden and French cottage

On Knowing Yourself

By Natalie Lue

Helping you figure out the hard passes and happy yeses in your life. Musings on figuring out what you need, desire, expect, feel and think in a world that socialises you to be a people pleaser.

Creative Fuel with Anna Brones

A newsletter and community dedicated to exploring the intersection of creativity and everyday life with Anna Brones. For the creative energy that resides in all of us.

Be whisked away to a windswept island, brimming with beautiful images and evocative words. Welcome to Creative Fuel - one of the most magical newsletters to pop into my inbox, and always a joy when it appears xo

- Luisa Skinner

The Magically Mundane

By Hunter Burgtorf

To live in a time where everything is at our fingertips, fast-paced, and succinct, I want to challenge you to find the stillness. The slowness. The magical within the mundane of your everyday life. That's why I started this newsletter.

Ridge & Valley Rooted

By Jessica

A simple, quiet life in nature. ♡

The most beautiful nature writer and someone who I feel a deep connection to through the power of words, even though we are a few thousand miles apart.

- Luisa Skinner

It's All About the Words by Claire Holden

Sharing thoughts and sparking discussions about books, TV, film, writing, life ... and the way they all beautifully interconnect. Reading, writing––it's all about the words.

The Light on the Sea

By Gillian Eilidh O'Mara

A newsletter from Gillian Eilidh O'Mara, Scottish artist, writer and children's book creator. Thoughts on the beauty in uncertainty.

The Light on the Sea gives me hope in days that feel dark. A true lighthouse for your creative soul, and a gift for your eyes. Adore.

- Luisa Skinner

Chasing Words And Wonder

By Christina Golian

In Chasing Words And Wonder, Christina Golian explores creativity and wellbeing, while getting lost in metaphors and falling down rabbit holes along the way.

{un‧kempt} with Maia Toll

A newsletter + community for wild wisdom seekers, night dreamers, and those looking to let magic in with best selling author Maia Toll.

The Yoga Letters

By Louisa

A monthly interactive yoga publication filled with personally curated recommendations and reflections all about mindfulness and the yoga journey. Featuring tailored journal prompts, practice guidance, and so much more.

Mostly Water

By John Lovie

Like the human body, and the earth's surface, this newsletter is mostly, but not entirely, water.

What I Wish I’d Said Instead

By Keeley Rees

Copywriting & Brand Storytelling || Helping you share your story online, while sharing pieces of mine.

Keeley gifts us with the most SUBLIME visual delights and inciteful storytelling, to generously help us share our whole selves online. Beautiful.

- Luisa Skinner

Poetry Today

By Maya C. Popa

deepening your practice of poetry, writing, and wonder

the lovely road

By Mackenzie

Taking the road less travelled while writing about it.

Reading Alice and Others

By Huma Qureshi

Notes on short stories that have moved me by my favourite authors, starting with Alice Munro and including many others.

I just gobble up Huma's words! And am thrilled she is now right here, on Substack. I think I may have to take part in one of her courses soon, too.

- Luisa Skinner

rEvolutions

By rEvolutions From Emma Goulding

Multimedia musings on life: An exploration of the thoughts and feelings that make up that our shared human experience.

It Dawned Upon Her

By Dawn Gibson-Winder

Aha moments and life lessons from my recovery from Burnout to a Slower way of Living. Join me on the Journey from Chaos to Calm.

Another Chapter

By Gaelle Jolly

A widow's story of grief and new creative beginnings

Inner Workings

By Rae Katz

On mysterious women's diseases, work culture, mothering, and the struggle to stop yearning for wealth and power. Honest, unflinching essays and interviews from a chronically ill, ex-startup CEO searching for redemption.

The Wild Forgotten

By Natalie

Enchanting words and art to inspire a deep and compassionate connection between your wild heart, and the wild world we are a part of.

Oh my. My heart just leaps when I see Natalie's letters land in my inbox! I hear a distant drumbeat of my ancestors, I smell woodsmoke in the air, and I could quite easily quit my real life and skip off into the forest. Be warned, this combination of imagery, illustration and words are divinely potent and blissfully magical ;)

- Luisa Skinner

On Things

By Madeleine Dore

Essays, interviews and notes that inspire curiosity, creativity and aliveness.

While I Was Drawing

By Emily

Lots happens while I am drawing. I get lost. I find things. I learn and discover. I’m sharing stories about things I’ve lived and loved and learned, as an illustrator, as a mum, wife, daughter, friend and all the roles we play in our lives.

The Simple Letter

By Jessica Rose Williams

The simple letter is a community of likeminded hearts striving to live the life we want to live instead of the life we think we should. This is where you'll find musings on simplifying life, slowing it down and taking the path that's truly ours.

Autumn Diaries

By Kerstin Martin

Midlife musings from the road less travelled.

The Untrodden Path

By Silvia Poldaru

☾ Welcome to our untrodden path. This space explores what it means to pave our own magical path through this life and to unapologetically follow what lights us up. This is me inviting us to walk each other home. ☽

Stay Curious & Wild

By Louise Rigg

Reflections on life: how to build it & learn from it; using creativity, connection & cyclical living to build a village in modern times.

Dear Reader, I'm lost

By Rebecca Holden

Letters from a writer navigating the world with absolutely no sense of direction.

Small Stories with Laura Pashby

Searching for magic & meaning—notes from my writing desk and beyond. A newsletter for seekers of everyday beauty. 💫

I've had the pleasure of watching Laura's writing journey since a book proposal course with Beth Kempton quite a few years ago now! Magic, wonder, awe and beauty ooze from Laura's pages. Divine.

- Luisa Skinner

How To Know

By Kayte Ferris

Essays and stories about everything and truth

Feeling It with Alex Kate

By Alex Kate Hare

Weeklyish writings on all the feelings that come along with a creative life, and the amazing ways our bodies create them. Penned by a Freelance Writer / Somatic Life Coach.

Creatively Conscious

By Claire Venus

Your Creativity loves Courage! Updates from a slow-lived life on the Northumberland Coast, thoughtful journal prompts & tools to help enhance your creativity & wellbeing. Home to monthly 'Notes from the Sea' & my members community 'A Sort of Fairytale'.

Notes On Living

By Alicia

Personal essays and fragmented thoughts on all things living and the growing pains that come along with being a human in the world.

The Unraveled Heart

By Susannah Conway / the Unraveled Heart

Unfiltered thoughts on creative living, neurodivergence and the view from midlife, by author & teacher Susannah Conway

Honest, vulnerable and real stories, combined with switched-on, knife-edge-sharp, practical business expertise. Susannah holds space beautifully, I'm thrilled to be part of her Journal Love Club for another year, as well as to have enjoyed several of her courses. It's always a joy when The Unraveled Heart pops into my inbox x

- Luisa Skinner

with EASE

By Tanya Lynch

with EASE - a safe space filled with my ramblings, suggestions, recommendations and stories, about how it might be possible to live a life with less stress. At 49, I'm striving for it each day - lets just say it's work in progress.

Gentle Creative

By Cali Bird

gentle, realistic advice about writing with an occasional dollop of tough love

A Life of Words

By Sasha

A Life of Words is an online space dedicated to offline feelings. Join for twice-monthly journal entries and invitations to regular pockets of presence and seasonal moments of pause.

Journaling Wild

By Nelly Bryce

Journaling, poetry and creative writing whilst navigating feminist motherhood.

THE RED FERN 🌿 By Helen Redfern

Personal essays exploring confidence and creativity in an online world.

Helen (and her unwavering support in confidence-building) has kept me company on many a dog walk! I adore her podcast episodes about Substack. Together with Claire they really do help me feel less alone. Thank you.

- Luisa Skinner

the cure for sleep with tanya shadrick

By Tanya Shadrick

On waking up, breaking free & making a more creative life. Respond to once-monthly writing prompts from acclaimed author Tanya Shadrick, and see your words published alongside other aspiring writers. A safe space to grow your creative confidence...

Deerwalker

By Jo

Novice crone and biophile dreaming my next adventure. Earth-love, hedgewitchery, plants, coffee and dogs. Mapping a new world with a foot in the Otherworld.

Story & Thread.

By Lyndsay Kaldor

The name Story & Thread expresses my love of interiors and storytelling. It explores the intersection of creativity, mothering and the living world, with a home and a garden at the heart.

The Clearing by Katherine May

By The Clearing with Katherine May

A newsletter and community for wild minds, winterers and enchantment-seekers with internationally bestselling author Katherine May.