Substacks recommended by Ray Zimmerman

Recommended by Ray Zimmerman

Chattanooga's independent publishing company. We are redefining publishing as community.

Rebecca Cook shares digital drawing and lyric poetry with a philosophical edge that is as razor sharp as it is heartfelt and tender.

This newsletter is a breath of fresh air.

- Ray Zimmerman

Langhorne Waterhouse

Deborah-Zenha Adams

By Deborah Adams

Get free tips, tales, and tons of advice from professional writers and editors delivered to your Inbox.

This publication includes some great reviews.

- Ray Zimmerman

Mary Dansak: Writing Into Wonder

Horses, science, memoir, musings, glimmers, stories, all dedicated to wonder.

The Woodlands of Ivor

By Robert LaCombe

Essays of intimacy and relationship in the natural world

This publication shows the depths of the author's connection to the natural world built over years of observation and celebration.

- Ray Zimmerman

Rhizosphere (for Writers)

By The Rhizosphere

A mycelial support system for people who choose to write. A rhizosphere is roots, soil, and everything in between.

Paul Luikart on Substack

A good place to read fiction and nonfiction, and sometimes read about fiction and nonfiction.

Paul offers fabulous short fiction and the occasional nonfiction pieces are good too.

- Ray Zimmerman

Church Goin Mule

By Mule

A monthly newsletter from the Mississippi Delta studio of outsider artist Church Goin Mule.

Pulling the Thread with Elise Loehnen

I read a lot and share what I learn. Spiritual seeker. Pulling apart the stories we tell about who we are so we can re-write a truer version. Host of the podcast Pulling the Thread, and author of the New York Times bestseller ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR.

Rx Nature

By Jeanne Malmgren

Field notes of a psychotherapist whose office is in the woods

Easy By Nature

By Bill Davison

Exploration and insights into re-wilding your yard, neighborhood, and spirit.

Chasing Nature

By Bryan Pfeiffer

Essays on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

On Texas Nature

By Misti Little

Notes and Musings about the Natural World from Texas

It's Good to Be Here

By Amy Stewart

Be the artist in residence of your world. A weekly dose of wonder from artist and bestselling author Amy Stewart. Supporters get art tutorials and a deeper dive.