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Jackie Dana
Dec 7, 2021
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Here’s a collection of fiction writers on Substack. We encourage you to check out some of the writers and subscribe to the ones that speak to your interests.

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Adventure Snack

Turn your inbox into an adventure with interactive stories the perfect length for your lunch break.
By Geoffrey Golden

Story Cauldron

History, mystery, fictional worlds, and random thoughts: ingredients that come together to create magical worlds.
By Jackie Dana

Simon K Jones writes

How to write serialised fiction + optional early access to my science fiction & fantasy stories

Stories All the Way Down by G. M. Baker

Serializing an historical novel, The Wistful and the Good, and accompanying commentaries.

The Novelleist

Writing a newsletter about writing fiction—and publishing my gothic novel one chapter at a time for paying subscribers. (Just like Charles Dickens did.)
By Elle Griffin

Martiniere Stories

Short fluff fiction and rough draft serialized novels set in the Martiniere Legacy universe. Current Work in Progress: Repairing the Legacy
By Joyce Reynolds-Ward

Erica Drayton, The Storyteller

As a storyteller I seek to impart what I learn on my journey to becoming a full-time author. And to share my stories through short form and serialized fiction.

The Xen'in Universe

Come dive into my world... Read free Science-Fiction and Fantasy stories, and find out about my writing process.
By Alex S. Garcia

Mark Starlin Writes!

Humor, fiction, comics, novels, serials, and other creative stuff by me, delivered to you.

Ye Olde Tyme News

Medieval fantasy satire news, short stories, and other tales from ‘round the Realm.
By Jan Lionsnest

Beary Merry

Notes from Beary, a Santabear spreading holiday cheer.
By Katie O'Connell

Story Press

Short and serialised fiction, direct to your inbox.
By I. M. Perrin

ARC Worlds

An epic urban fantasy featuring magic, myth, and mayhem in NYC and beyond
By Jon Auerbach

Innocently Macabre

Tales of the speculative, the gothic, and the weird and wonderful by Ajinkya Goyal
By Ajinkya Goyal

Quick as a Flash

Weekly micro and flash fiction by Anthony Lora
By Anthony Lora

Brief Notes on Life

Short fiction, magic realism, vignettes and ruminations on life & existence. A fisherman trying to meditate on Silence - the space-time between breaths, pondering, lost in reverie, waiting..
By Tarun Kuckian

Descend into Insanity with Seth

A drug trip for the sober
By Seth Pool

The FLARE

Short fiction | Poetry | Personal essays
By Chevanne

Story Hoarder

releasing the hoard of stories I have written to spread the story love to readers everywhere.
By Nicole Rivera

Somniphobia

Short stories, serials, and other writings by horror author Chris Hicks
By Chris Hicks

Millennial Monica

Coming-of-age stories for the Millennial woman. Fiction (short stories) and inspiring interviews with Millennial women who have learned to live authentic lives.
By Monica Nastase

The Water Is So Wide

Serialized fiction, new post every Friday. Up now: The Water Is So Wide, a story of horses, dance, and the persistence of love and art.
By Julie Weigley

The Tidewater Papers

Works of fiction by Joseph W. Knowles. Short stories, serialized novels, alternate history, science fiction and more are found here.
By Joseph W. Knowles

Missouri Ozarker

Stories and essays written in the Missouri Ozarks.
By John Gibson

Holy Wr*t! by Michael Reed

It's the Bible, reimagined. Irreverent and loveable short stories, retold each week from the world's most sacred text. All stories are free, subscribe today!

Collected Rejections

Essays that editors weren’t brave enough to publish.
By Valorie Clark

Saffron and Bear

A cozy slice-of-life fantasy story about the adventures of a witch and her cat
By Katie Conrad

Short Story

Stories up to 10,000 words. Author Payout = $100 + 50% of subscription revenue. No Fee to Apply. Readers get one quality story a month and support artists with their contributions. Everyone wins.
By palisatrium

Read Write Repeat

Original short fiction, essays on the art and craft of writing, and ideas for shaking the words out of your head and onto the page.
By Ed Tankersley

New York City Hours

A city that never sleeps is still full of dreams. These stories are written by dreamers, navigating the complexities of life, love, and the pursuit of paying rent.
By Vryn

Amanda Loves Words

A newsletter about stories and art: book reviews, TV, music, writing, and creating.
By Amanda Waters

Situation Normal

Life is funny (sometimes), so that's what I write about. Readers say my stories remind them of Dave Barry, David Sedaris, and Larry David. Basically, everyone agrees it's "funny" and David-related.
By Michael Estrin

Personal Papers

Carol Sill's reflections, analysis and commentary. Keeping it personal.
By Carol Sill

Roush Writes

Seeking authentic truth through short stories.
By Zachary Roush

Nova Nevedoma

A land of pathological curiosity. Stories, essays, and bedtime tales.
By Vanya Bagaev

Fiction by Bill Adler

Delightful short stories by Bill Adler delivered direct to your inbox.

Bay French Worlds

Bay French is the author of (at this moment) six books, spanning sci-fi, fantasy, middle-grade and non-fiction. Currently working on the Ayla series, which you can read for free right here on Substack!

Rainbow Man, a Novel

A grieving widower finds himself entangled in a young woman's secret past
By David W. Berner

The Storyletter

An independent publisher of serialized novels, short stories, poetry, and flash fiction.
By Winston Malone

JP's Jetsam Pyre

Stories, often false. Sometimes I lie about my past, sometimes about pasts that aren't mine, sometimes about the future. Not into heroes and villains or Hollywood endings.
By JP Fosterson

North By Northwest Cathay

A serial novel in the grand martial arts tradition
By Fei Kayser

Scripturam

Weekly fiction to help you escape to another world.
By Shanice Lawton

Katy’s Home for Fiction Fanatics

Short Creative Fiction, Flash Fiction and Stories.
By Katy Mullett

Saga of the Jewels

an epic young adult fantasy web serial
By Faenon

Along the Hudson

A blend of fiction, creative nonfiction, and writing prompts delivered twice a week to your inbox from my home along the Hudson.
By Justin Deming

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Daily, Original Fiction in relatively short bursts of wisdom, charm, laughter, folly, and sometimes the darker side of the human experience. Every single day. Read one a day or save them for your weekend.

Nova Interitus, a novel

Join this serialized release of a novel in progress. Nova Interitus is an adventure in speculative dystopian fiction. Subscribe and get newest chapters. Contribute to the discussion and help with its direction.
By R.R. Elewaut

Slow Learner

Thoughts of a No-longer Precocious Individual
By J Hardy Carroll

The Problematic Pen

The pleasure, pain, and peril of writing in the present—especially about the past. Of Wind and Wolves — Serialized ancient historical fiction
By J.M. Elliott

memory and dream

Fiction, poetry, and thoughts on writing, publishing, and the creative process from authors Duane Poncy and Patricia J McLean.
By Duane Poncy

Future Thief

Short stories, flash fiction and slice of life essays.
By Brian Reindel

Written Tales Magazine

Where Readers & Writers connect from around the globe through poetry, flash fiction & short stories...

Banana Republican Blues

A Black Comedy
By Tim Chambers

Claire's Short Stories

Short fiction for those who want to read, but just don't have time.
By Claire Walster

Wolfish Rage: A Novel Interpretation of Madness of Herakles

Flash Fiction episodes (500-1,000 words) that provide a new interpretation of Euripides' 2,600 year old tragedy.
By Jason Kassel

Ursula’s Stories

A collection of fictional stories, pulled from the depths of my imagination
By Ursula Sarracini

A Story A Week

One story delivered to your inbox every seven days.
By Robert Potter

Truth & Fiction: The Intersection of Prayer, Prophecy, & Politics

A place where truth & fiction connect in prayer, prophecy, writing, & novels!
By Shari McGriff

Fiction in 50

Stories, often in 50 words, and anything else I want to blog about
By Dascha Paylor

Wild Apple Press

Faerie tales and verse for the young at heart, lost in life, and soul weary. The gentle art of telling fibs with humour, magic and myth. Also features occassional conversations with creatures that time forgot.
By Claire Hunt

The Only Gaijin in the Village

The forest floor for my fallen leaves... writing new and old, writing about writing, serialised novels and much more.
By Iain Maloney

Yvette B. Walker Writes

Crime, suspense, and thriller novels, as well as short-form fiction. You should read it. Why not?
By Yvette Walker

Main Wish Null

Scattered thoughts from a writer out of order
By William Shunn

Scribbler

short stories and novellas for the price of a cup of coffee...
By ben woestenburg

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Stories, essays, and fiction about the female experience.
By Becci Goodall

Lucy Winton, YA Fantasy Author

Want to read stories with adventure, mystery, friendship...and a little romance?

The Case Files of Sheridan Bell

A Collection of Victorian Fantasy Mysteries
By Em Rowene

What Was I Thinking?

Thought and story experiments that I will 100% regret some day. Writing - & sometimes thinking - that bridges the gap between media, literature, communications & human behaviour. Come for the self-humiliation, stay for the accidental insight.
By M.J. Hines

The Warthog Report

Join me as I blog, write fiction, worldbuild, and answer your questions.
By William F. Edwards

Armchair Alien

Welcome to Armchair Alien, home of space adventure and mythical magic. Get science fiction and fantasy tales delivered to your inbox as serial fiction, along with a side of interesting and quirky facts.
By Jeannette

Cyndi's Dark Delights

Terror and weirdness at your door!
By Cyndi Gacosta

Dispatches from Inner Space

The fictional stories and nonfictional opinions of one Jordan Petersen.
By Jordan Petersen

The Daniel Redd Project

The best in short fiction about horror and strange topics

OGWiseman's Stories!

Receive a story written by me twice a month - Sci fi, Fantasy, or Historical Fiction!
By Owen Wiseman

The Hallowed Wilds

Ezra is a boy when he meets Aurelia. She's beautiful, strange and a witch.
By Amanda Cessor

Alliances of the Crystal Realms Series (ACRES)

A series of love-stories following the blossoming alliances between representatives of different Crystal Realms - the Sapphire Islands, the Emerald Isle, the Ruby Realm and the Diamond Empire.
By Brooke Dennehy Lakin

Suspense & Spirituality

Suspense & Spirituality is the newsletter of Samuel Griswold, author of the historical thriller True Identity!
By Samuel Griswold

Root and Branch

Root posts are stories about my life and what I've learned by living it. Branch posts are fantasy stories that draw themes from that core and reimagine them in an escapist narrative.
By Lorelei Jonason

A Writer's Block: Robb Grindstaff

Original fiction for readers. Tips and techniques for writers.

Ashmark is Writing

The place for snack-sized morsels of love, hope and redemption (and some occasional nonsense).
By Ashley Mark Adkins

Barbarian Grunge

Lovecraftian horror. Sample chapters. Short stories. Occasional articles on writing
By Nathan Schuetz

mostly made up

Every week, a new short-short fiction, a chapter from the first draft of my novella-in-progress, plus whatever I know, and whatever I'm learning, about the craft of writing, the magic of writing, the agony of writing, the business of writing, and more
By Mark Cutts

Writing from Capeside

Original fiction and wandering thoughts
By Christian

David Disspain

Serialized fiction and other stories

The Other Stories

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, WTF Stories delivered to your inbox.
By Kez The Editor

Dynamic Creed

Odd and evocative creative fiction from the edge of life. Every Tuesday.
By Victor D. Sandiego

Castalia

Intellectual Journal - essays, stories, reflections

Ye Olde Tyme News

Medieval fantasy satire news, short stories, and other tales from ‘round the Realm.
By Jan Lionsnest

Fish Clamor’s "All the News from Beneath the Reef"

Jennifer Woodworth’s very short, absurd, surreal, & generally funny Stories, Poems, and other Literary Items for those who like a quick fun read now & then.
By Jennifer Woodworth

The Profitron

Short fiction about family, the corporate world, modern values and life in the 2020s | Melbourne, Australia | Humour, satire, absurdity
By Luke Skelton

A Scattering of Light

A guileless American student gets caught up in espionage in 1970s London.
By Patrick Youngblood

Word Associations

Fiction and possibly some poetry from an Orthodox sci-fi and fantasy author. Currently serializing Faire Exchange, in which an Earth school gets an exchange student from the realm of Faerie. Thank you for reading!
By Alex Scott

A Scattering of Light

A guileless American student gets caught up in espionage in 1970s London.
By Patrick Youngblood

Kindling

Exploring strange stories, horror fiction, books worth burning, and trying to write a few of my own.
By Shaina Read

Karl K. Gallagher's Stories

Taking ideas to their ultimate conclusion.
By Karl Gallagher

FRESH MEAT

stories for the chopping block.
By Maegan Heil

VB3 Writes Fiction

''Web Serials, LitRPGs, Novels, Short Stories and Author Thought Processes from VB3''.

Hiram Falls -- A Serial Novel

The people of this bucolic small town in Vermont discover secrets that, if revealed, will harm those they hold most dear.
By Geoffrey Gevalt

Cobwebs and Candles

Paranormal, horror, and fantasy fiction courtesy of a tea-swilling curmudgeon. New stories every week.
By Lauren Salas

LeenasBooks Newsletter

Writer’s life, news and photos, listen to my books, and read stories as I write them
By Leena Maria

Human Capital

Serial fiction Initial Human Offerings (IHOs), are the latest economic innovation from Wall Street! Need money? Instead of taking out a loan at predatory interest rates you can now put yourself on the stock market, and investors will give YOU money!
By whogetswhatgetswhy

Halcyon Horror

Unsettling short stories with a historical twist
By Leigh Parrish

Conked.io - writing breakout novels

Gain exclusive access to the work of Rand Leeb-du Toit: long form fiction, serialised together with poetry.
By Rand Leeb-du Toit

Dystopian Worlds

Worlds of alternate realities that can be strikingly similar to our own.
By Alicia

Bill Bradbury's fiction

dystopian sci-fi and speculative fiction with a heart... and probably dogs. Sharing a full novel, one chapter at a time, each Friday!

The Tale of Rin

A Serialized Novel about an Indestructible Woman
By K.M. Halpern

Timberline

Words that speak to you via short fiction, poetry and philosophic musings
By Jon Christian

Speculatively

Reading is believing. Stories to escape reality, and prepare for another.
By Nate Eckman

Parhelia

Short short stories.
By Conor Barnes

My Stories

Welcome! Check in frequently for the latest uploads.
By Ebuka Onwuagba

An (Un)Safe Literary Space

Fiction by award winning writer Joshua Shapiro, plus some iconoclastic thoughts about writing it.
By Joshua Shapiro

Bill Bradbury's fiction

dystopian sci-fi and speculative fiction with a heart... and probably dogs. Sharing a full novel, one chapter at a time, each Friday!
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