Substacks recommended by Deborah Vass

Recommended by Deborah Vass

Callyconwayprints

Linocut printmaker with some collage too…

One Garden Against the World

By Kate Bradbury

On gardening, biodiversity and climate, from Kate Bradbury.

HOME | Nature Directory

By Wildheart

This must be the place! It's a beautiful world and these writers and artists will inspire you with their love of our only home.

Dacha

By Parisian Library of Delights

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Studio Musings

By Felicity Keefe

Inspirations, thoughts and images from my Artist studio.

A Room of My Own

By K C Binder

A journey into creative living

Laura Thompson’s Substack

By laura thompson

Writing on writers - Nancy, Agatha, various Elizabeths and more. And on other things, from classical ballet to classic murder trials. Whatever interests me, and I hope you also.

Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society

By Ann Kennedy Smith

Exploring books, literary lives and Cambridge women’s history

Each post is a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Cambridge women writers and it always a treat when a new piece appears.

- Deborah Vass

Pen, Book and Garden: Notes from Linnesby

By Notes

Literary essays from the Swedish countryside

Ponderings of a Part-Time Writer

By JY Saville's Ponderings

Regular musings on what I'm writing, what I'm reading, and anything else that fires me up enough to put fingers to keyboard

English Republic of Letters

By Jeffrey Streeter

A glimpse of distant horizons via "beautifully crafted essays and observations" covering literature, memoir, and faraway cities from a recovering cultural bureaucrat joining up the dots of an international life.

A Northern View

By Julia Crossland

Stories and art from a Yorkshire studio.

Rediscover · Reconnect · Re-Emerge

By David Barton

If you find the fleeting changes of modern life wearisome, maybe even overwhelming, join me on a journey, a path well-trodden, as I share heartfelt and often nostalgic reflections on living slowly, simply, and in tune with the seasons.

For the Love of Landscapes

By Gill Moon Photography

Weekly musings on photography, landscape, and getting out with your camera.

Gina Ferrari Art

A Sunday supplement on making art and living a creative life

Witness Marks by Melissa Harrison

A monthly postcard from the English countryside: nature, the rural year, and village life. Book news and other updates, too.

The Eye of the Beholder

By Peter Harkness

It's not just beauty which is in the Eye of the Beholder - I write about anything which catches my attention, as I amble through the worlds of art, history, politics and anywhere else I like.

Don't Forget to Breathe

By Lou

Sharing moments found in a creative life to pause, reflect and breathe more deeply.

Auraist: picking the best-written books

By Sean

Trusted by 40K+ readers, we pick the best-written books from US and UK recent releases and prize shortlists, and publish in-depth articles by their authors on prose style. Plus the satirical series The Demon Inside David Lynch.

Carolyn J Roberts Artist Substack

Musings on my artistic life - the ups & the downs! I share my creative processes and paintings, my inspirations & what's got me fired up! Sprinkled along the way are video demonstrations, material recommendations, Coffee Break chats...& much more!

The Hidden Pond Substack by Dudley Zopp

By Dudley Zopp with The Hidden Pond Substack

The Hidden Pond takes you behind the scenes where Dudley Zopp blends wildlife habitat restoration with her work as a visual artist.

Anne of Green Places

By Anne Thomas

I write my way through the nooks and crannies of the natural+human world - currently in Grenoble, France, gateway to the French Alps. Place, history, ecology, art.

June's Writing

By June Girvin

Welcome to the conversations. I talk about lots of things. Life, books, nature, knitting, or what's happening in the garden, sometimes memoir from 47 years of nursing. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend, sometimes on Wednesday too.

The Villager

By Tom Cox

New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

Tom's writing is a joy in my in-box and I am so glad to be able to support this very talented writer.

- Deborah Vass

The Unhurried Reader

Considered posts about books read with care.

bimblings by Josie George

I am wide awake in a strange and wonderful world and this is what I see.

The Not So Bad Tempered Gardener

By Anne Wareham

I am a garden maker and writer - my garden is Veddw, in Monmouthshire, UK. I write here about garden issues of all kinds. And plants. I am a thorn in the flesh of the garden world and may annoy you.

Studio Journal

By Akiko Juni

Raw sketches of my art journey: Inspirations, challenges, and the everyday in between.

Debbie Lamey-MacDonald's Artistic Musings

Recording Nature through painting, drawing and inspirational writing.

Mark Diacono's Abundance

Food and everything connected, by James Beard shortlisted and multi award-winning author and photographer Mark Diacono, of Otter Farm, once of River Cottage.