Motherhood In the Margins

Hi, I’m Vickie Rubin—author, educator, speaker, and mother. My journey of raising a child with a rare diagnosis and multiple disabilities has been filled with challenges and joys. Discover more in my award-winning memoir, Raising Jess: A Story of Hope

Welcome to the Let's Talk Memoir community! This is the place for the latest on Let's Talk Memoir podcast, upcoming workshops, memoir writing tools and encouragement, and support for memoirists at all stages of the memoir writing process.

Creating connections through stories on breastfeeding, high-risk pregnancies, raising a kiddo with a disability, navigating hospital stays, finding your way, and running. If you've experienced all or one of these - you don't walk (or run) alone.

Inspiration & writing advice from a trauma-informed writing coach. Discover your authentic voice. Support your mental health. Write stories that change lives, especially your own. Gaslight-Proof Your Writing Life with a free copy of Write More, Fret Less.

I tell it like it is, sharing my innermost thoughts on books and life. I host the daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby, founded a publishing house, own an indie bookstore, host retreats and more! Want a PDF of my Summer Reads list? Subscribe below!

Author, editor, book doctor, ghostwriter. Owner of a worried Irish horse. A personal newsletter about doing all that in the real world.

Casey Mulligan Walsh writes about life at the intersection of grief and joy and embracing the in-between. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared, was published by Motina Books in February 2025.

This is heart work

My personal Substack

Whatever comes into my addled, shrinking brain.

Stephanie Land is the New York Times bestselling author of MAID and CLASS. She has the unexpected day job of a public speaker and continues to write about and advocate for survivors and people who parent under the poverty line.

Thrice-weekly non-ramblings for writers, parents, and former children - many seeking publication. And/or trauma survivors.

For people who do language. Writing saved my life—so I teach writing as if it can save yours.

Making Childhood Fit for Children

Walking with other special needs parents from uncertainty to hope.

Funny stuff and writing tips from humorist, author, and professional snack-getter Julie Vick.

A newsletter by the journalist and author Leah McLaren. Weekly essays on life, love, the creative unconscious and the tragicomedy of being alive -- plus regular video interviews with writers.

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

An occasional newsletter about the strange beauty of being human, from poet & essayist Heather Lanier.

Thoughts on writing & the writing life from Georgia Writers' writers-in-residence.

A feminist exploration of motherhood, marriage, and divorce

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

News and analysis about the book publishing industry that you won't read anywhere else.

Being a mom in 2021 is not the same as when our moms were moms. We are here to talk about sex, drugs and some products we love.

Writing, publishing, creativity are at the heart of this newsletter, formerly called The Bright Side.

Adoptee, writer, writing teacher, editor, mama, bird person, introvert, grouch

part writing, part teaching, part living, part learning. and birds. there are always birds.

An Immigrant's Voice.

Free monthly Flash Fiction Craft Articles & Prompts / Weekly Posts & Community Writing Events for paid subscribers from Writer & Teacher, Kathy Fish

Writing that boldly disregards normal restraints.

Candid conversation and community on the long arc of loss and resilience. Beginners welcome. Subscribe now for exclusive content.

This is the home of two newsletters. Paid subscribers get Cheryl's Dear Sugar Letter monthly, plus her free newsletter several times a year, which includes her "Tells Us" author series. Free subscribers get everything but the monthly Dear Sugar Letter.

News, resources and inspiration to help young people with disabilities bloom and grow.

writing advice, musings, and announcements from Meredith Talusan and a wonderful team of volunteers

Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly.

Think of these as signatures, unbound. Thoughts, explanations, and screeds about the publishing industry by Anne Trubek, founder of Belt Publishing. For the bound version, pick up "So You Want To Publish A Book?" Belt Publishing, July 2020.

CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of #1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight. (In 2025 it begins 5/31!)

Free weekly podcasts, essays & community. KJ Dell'Antonia, Jess Lahey, Sarina Bowen & Jennie Nash on writing, thinking about writing and getting the work done.

Four verticals edited by Sari Botton: MEMOIR MONDAY, collab w/ Granta, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion, The Walrus, Electric Lit, LitHub, Oldster; FIRST PERSON SINGULAR original essays; THE LIT LAB interviews + craft; GOODBYE TO ALL THAT, NYC stories.

Curating fee-free (AND paying/funded) calls and competitions—plus other resources—for writers of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

The FAQ on how to find an agent and how to write books, all in one place.