Substack Writer Directory
Looking to connect with other writers? I’ve compiled a directory here of every Substack writer I can find, and I organize it by genre and writing type (poetry, short story, books, personal essays, etc).
I have a strict NO AI policy on the writers and publications listed here. If you spot an AI-made publication, please let me know in the comments so I can delete it.
Every day, I’ll be updating this list with new writers. If you’d like to be added, just message me!
Also, if you want any of your information edited, send me a message or leave a comment!
Enjoy making connections, fellow writers!
Nonfiction
Article & Blog Series
The5thDimension is writing about actionable Stoic philosophy for modern life, including practical resilience & mindset techniques to thrive daily.
Ananta Kumar Nath is writing travel stories and cultural commentary. They have a self-published book called Dr Bhupen Hazarika: Untold Stories from Arunachal Pradesh.
Asakura Enko is writing extremely random mini essays about a lot of different topics. They also like Van Gogh!
Alex Eos is writing about the craft of fantasy and sci-fi for readers who like their wonder dangerous and their rules legally binding.
The Anime Analyst is writing about psychology through the use of anime to illustrate is concepts.
B.R. Bates is writing true crime series about convicted Detroit serial killers.
C.J. Nolen is writing about fiction, culture, video games, living abroad, and building a creative life outside of the machine. They also write literary-leaning YA fantasy.
Devendran C. is a software architect translating breakthrough physics and computer research into clear financial signals.
Diane is an author, short story writer, and journalist currently working on a collection of fictional short stories. On Substack, they publish a fresh breath of journalism air, called The Critical Reader.
Erin Grace is writing about their experience engineering a bond with an AI machine, Max, to solve social isolation.
From the Sidelines is writing about current topics for both ATP & WTA, providing in-depth player profiles, and honor the sport of tennis.
George K. Antoniadis is writing about mental health activism, psychology articles and everything in between.
Helen Thornton Symonds is writing about copywriting, lifestyle, wellness, food, nutrition, books, travel, media, coastal living, motherhood, and more.
Leslie U. Harris is a Wall Street vet writing weekly investment ideas.
Louis Campbell is writing about recent political events.
Luciana Francisca Rey Leyes is writing about astrology.
Martin Johnston is writing about finding new music on Bandcamp.
Michael Buzzelli is writing comedy in the forms of articles, columns, and books.
Moe Badreddine is writing about mindset, everyday challenges, and how we can relate to our thoughts with more clarity and compassion.
Mohamed Abdelsalam is writing about AI in energy and how AI can improve energy optimization across different sectors.
Mouli is writing about arts, history, and women empowerment.
n8 is writing longform introspective articles.
Nobby Grumbleton is writing corporate satire.
Reading the Dark is writing quiet reflections on thriller and suspense novels.
Rebecca R. Bibbs is writing both fiction and nonfiction articles with multicultural focus.
Recursive is writing about cognition, abstract logic, systems, strategy, and semantics.
Robin Christine Honigsberg is raising mental health awareness through articles, poetry, and a podcast about living with mental illness. They’re also writing short stories.
Roi Higgs is writing motivational articles and books that explore a practical and reflective perspective on everyday life focusing on growth, self-awareness, and the small choices that shape who we become.
Ryan Plooster is writing weekly NBA recaps and deep dives.
Sonic Savor is a musician writing about music industry news.
StoicMax is writing about stoicism.
Trish is writing about the self, the stars, and everything in between — no format, no formula, just reflections that arrive when they’re ready.
The Refined Woman Edit✨️ is writing a guide to a soft life and a feminine mindset full of class.
Quickfinance is writing fast, simple breakdowns of the biggest moves in markets, tech, and global economics—clear insights, zero jargon.
Vevek Pandian is writing about leadership, technology, and AI.
Vince Rothman is a political science student writing about politics and policy.
Personal Essays
Aaron is a philosophy & religion student writing personal essays that mix philosophy and lived experience.
Adebare is writing fragments, shards torn out of something whole and made to stand alone for our scrutinizing gaze.
Allen is writing rambling stream of consciousness essays and poems, usually complaining about their love life, pondering art and finding some hope!
Asantewaa is writing personal essays about their life and thoughts.
Bo is pouring their mind out onto the page.
Caitlin A. Smith is a surgeon and writer in Seattle writing about healthcare and current events.
Charlotte Cottard navigates through life trying things, getting them wrong, and writing about it later on. Their Substack is a curated version of their internal monologue: edited, but only slightly.
CheriesDiaries is writing about womanhood, literature, coffee-stained thoughts,
and the soft determination it takes to build a meaningful life.
Clifford S. Mintz is a recovering scientist and cancer survivor who is trying his hand at creative non-fiction writing.
Emily Jean is writing personal essays and some poetry for female founders.
Emma Zamia is writing essays on culture, aesthetics, philosophy and how we learn to see, value, and preserve what matters.
From The Long Middle is writing about things people pretend not to see—stories, poems, and truths about being human in a world that prefers performance.
[garrett fowler] is writing about witnessing the world go online and how that shift has affected culture.
giftypost is writing stories with thoughtful insights into what they’re thinking to explore the deeper context of everyday life.
Jane Finlay (Blackall) is a mother and writer with a passion for cultural literature, music, Soho, and good politics.
Jhanvi Tiwari is writing about girlhood and everything it leaves behind, status, softness, and the afterlives of growing up online.
Jade Bates - Author is an over-caffeinated mum just trying to find her place in this world whilst trying to keep her head above water at the same time. She writes short stories and blogs on the writing process on Substack, while off the platform, she writes speculative fiction, crime, and thriller novels.
Laura Spale is writing thoughtful reflections on systems, care, and navigating life without unnecessary pressure or shame.
LeoDreamsandWrites is writing book reviews and personal essays on queerness, attachment and other identity issues personal to them.
Luke Arnold is writing short observational essays with life, lessons, realizations, and dark humour in the mix.
M.Ø is writing madness (sorry, fiction, philosophy & social commentary).
Meg Floss is writing personal essays, reflections, and poetry on sociopolitical issues, philosophy, current events, and more.
Nannie is writing a collection of life, journaling, and story pieces.
Neha Oberoi writes about truth, coherence, and the mechanics of becoming.
Nikki is writing unapologetic, excruciatingly vulnerable, and truthful blogs on life as a single woman in her 50s, from dating disasters to career wins (and the occasional wardrobe malfunction).
Peas is writing personal essays.
Peter Warren Gasper is a veterinarian who likes and posts quotes.
RT Rick is writing stories and anecdotes and other great stuff you might care about if you're still a real human being living on our planet outside the cultural norm of sanitation.
salma | سَلْمَى is writing metaphorical, poetic and philosophical prose, existential essays and sometimes fiction.
Starlight is writing about their experiences and discoveries in the world of AI, past, present, and future. Some of it is serious, and some of it lighter. They’re also writing some light poetry.
Steven Bode is writing about survival, ambition, fear, and the strange weight of being alive in personal essays, fiction pieces, and hybrid pieces.
Sunnywave | Hawai‘i is writing short pieces embracing life, love, healing, death, forgiveness and all the gorgeous messy human in between things.
Teguan Harris is writing about culture, fiction, poetry in the form of stories, essays, and narratives.
Unsaid Silences is writing about mental health, grief, growing up as the eldest child, and family relations.
Serialized Books
hypatia is writing creative nonfiction and literary fiction. Currently, they’re writing a memoir and short fiction.
Michael Luketich is writing books that generate shared experiences between readers and their audiences.
One Domino Away is writing a 13-book series delving into the mechanics of the Constitution.
Poetry
Andrea 🌄 is a poet, storyteller, and trauma-informed somatic experiencing coach writing technical support for the soul.
Asmaa 🥀 is writing poetry and deep reflective pieces exploring growth through emotional intelligence, valuing honesty, depth, and the quiet evolution that follows awareness.
The Beautifully Broken Bastard is an aspiring teen poet writing their truth.
Bryn Arthur is writing poems about movies and other topics.
Clarabelle Learmonty is writing about emotions, humans and their messy, unclear feelings, silent tragedies, heartbreaks no one talks about, moments of peace and belonging. They’re also writing some short stories and novels on the side!
Julie Maibach is a former homeschooling mom and empty-nester writing poetry for kids and grown-up kids.
Justin's Writing Corner is writing poetry and short stories.
kaylin is writing poetry. Some of their best works were written through self-made glasses of tears, sitting on their bathroom floor.
Leo Eva is writing about anything from spirituality to reflections.
robenia is writing poetry.
SoBen_wright is writing poetry, social commentary, and personal reflections.
troian is writing short prose and poetry, usually in the fantasy, fiction, and reflection/life categories.
Understanding. is writing existential and prose poetry.
VeryTiredWoman is turning raw emotions into art through poetry.
Plays & Screenplays
DebiAnnT is writing one-minute plays.
Fiction
Short Stories
Anushree Nande is writing speculative, fantasy, and CNF short stories, flash fiction, and longform essays. They have one published novelette and a novel in the works.
Ash is a hairstylist of nearly two decades who writes stories in the same fashion that they tell them to their clients from behind the chair—minus all the hand gesturing and weird facial expressions. They just finished a series on solving a 60 year family mystery!
BD Gordon is writing short stories inspired by Toasty’s Firewood in central Virginia. Humor, irony, drama, spooky, mystery, & more can be found in their weekly writing drops. Riveting historical fiction series are mixed in as well!
The Boxpress Manifesto is writing character-driven short stories and poems.
Crescent Abendstern is writing poems, short stories, and excerpts from their fantasy fiction novel.
CyberComa is writing fictional short stories and some memoirist pieces.
Dr. FanFiction is writing fanfiction short stories based on the TV show Charmed.
Emily Rose Townsend is writing about what it means to care, to remember, and to keep going anyway. They’re writing both novellas and poetry.
Honor Maria is writing micro-dramas that document the soft rot of modern life.
Hybridsec Blog (Sci-Fi) is writing sci-fi stories inspired by UAP folklore and theoretical physics.
Invisible Ink is writing short stories that can be funny and sometimes serious with a dash of pop culture added in.
James Ryan is writing horror and some nonfiction.
Jay Vale is writing literary crime fiction.
K.C. is writing works of fiction rooted in half-forgotten places, ruined ministries, dissolving borderlands, and chambers that remember what was done there.
kijknietlinks is writing bizarre fiction in existential short stories, fantasy adventures and science-fantasy sagas. They’re currently working on adventures of demon hunters for hire in an original eastern-inspired mythological world.
Luke Skelton writes satirical short stories mostly inspired by life in corporate and bureaucracy.
Max Winter is a 20-year film industry vet writing sci-fi and thrillers, with most being darkly comedic.
Marie Hendry is a professional silly goose living in the “what if” and “why” while they write off-center fiction, personal essays, and honest dispatches from the writing life.
Matt Sardina is writing screenplays, short stories, and insane fictional diary entries.
Matthew Arnold Stern is an award-winning public speaker and writer with 3 published works and over 40 years of professional experience. He’s currently writing another book and using his Substack as a reflective writing space.
Patrick L. Parker is writing myth-soaked stories at the crossroads of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and western.
Parker McCoy is writing vigilante/crime fiction.
The Tea House Of RomanSCIFI is writing about the algebra of life in a self-created genre called Roman Sci-fi.
Rixford's Library of Wonders is writing a sanctuary of stories of strange wonder and whimsy, covering fantasy, horror, comedy, and more.
Serena’s Shelf is writing horror and psychological thrillers.
Shane Wilson is writing short stories in the sci-fi/fantasy (usually horror) vein, plus longer-form “essays” where they discuss representation in media and any thoughts they have about writing.
svndavn is writing romantasy and other short stories.
talisha elizabeth 💕 is writing realistic fiction and fantasy stories with some poetry mixed in.
Tamiii is writing realistic fiction and some personal essays.
Thomas Tiernan is writing fantasy paranormal detective horror short stories.
Serialized Books
Ada is writing fantasy speculative novels, stories, and poetry.
Aimee Menard is writing contemporary fantasy and romance books featuring queer and transgender characters, many of which are YA coming-of-age books. Their current book is a slow-burn romance, a coming-out story for a new queer woman.
Ash Seawolf writes literary fiction books.
Anne is writing fantasy books that are sometimes dark and grim, sometimes funny and absurd.
Big Head PhD is writing historic fiction inspired by missionary Samuel Pollard & his adventures in China.
ClareFHCreates is writing a story about the lore from their fantasy novel.
Doris von Tettenborn is writing cozy fantasy novels.
Duke Lott is writing his debut novel.
Elliott Tignor is writing kids’ and YA fiction. They’re also writing short stories on the side!
Eternal Sims 4 Stories is writing fantastic fiction about Sims 4.
Ever Blue | Serial Romance is writing original, clean romance stories about love and hope, best consumed with your favorite cup of tea.
Finley J Heeley is writing western novels.
Hafsah is writing a YA dark academia/thriller novel.
Jeff B. White is writing full books that explore the human psyche through the lens of speculative fiction. They also transmute memoir into magic through dark fantasy.
Jocelyn the Scribe is writing science fiction space operas and historical fictions. They also have a non-fiction book on political psychology.
Johannes is writing love stories in German with English translations coming soon.
Joseph Dehler is writing a dark fantasy novel.
JudeOConnell is writing fantasy novels and the occasional journalistic article.
Kent "SyberSmoke" Campbell is writing lore for their science fantasy novel.
LIMINAL BRITAIN is writing wit and satire as novels and essays.
Marcellus Hendricks has written a non-fiction book about time management and a poetry book. They’re currently working on short stories and novels in the sci-fi/dystopian genre.
PDSH Newsletter is writing stories about super heroes, sci-fi, swords, sorcery, and horror.
R. Genthos is writing a serialized fantasy.
Rita Quill is writing speculative books.
Rowan Beck Anderson is writing queer noir.
The Sauna Writer is writing Nordic fantasy adventures from a sauna—because where else can a working family man write in peace?
Sam Redlark is writing weird fiction stories. Their next piece is an espionage thriller!
S. E. Grosskopf is writing novellas about a telepathic alien working as a private detective in the 1930s.
Sisyphus is writing fiction for thinking readers that asks the timeless questions about what it means to be human. Their work encompasses elements of many genres: literary, speculative, historical, slipstream, others—united by a subversive point of view.
Spencer Stephen Hayes is writing western fiction. They also write short stories and commentary on Nogi Jiu Jitsu.
Stephen Mills is writing dark fantasy horror books.
Stephen Thomas is writing lyrical literary fiction from the time (long) before history.
Sue Leather is a double award-winning writer & story maniac who is currently working on a crime fiction novel.
Tretaxis Dispatches is writing sci-fi with a side of graphic horror.
Teresa Brown - Author is writing fantasy and horror novels and short stories.
Ungopelo is writing a romantasy about the first couple in the world as they navigate the creation of the world and their relationship.
Vin Valentina is writing speculative fiction and romantic fantasy as poetry, novels, and blogs.