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I am an artist dedicated to engaging in change-making, impactful projects that engage local participation in unique, meaningful and creative water storytelling.

Frantic Panties

By WhiteFeather Hunter

WhiteFeather's philosophical ramblings. All things bioart, DIY bio, biotech philosophy, witchcraft, technofeminism, biomaterials, menstrual materiality, etc. More at whitefeatherhunter.ca (art projects) or uwa.academia.edu/WhiteFeatherHunter (papers).

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Some of the most beautiful writing I have known.

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Did Someone Say Emoji?

By Jennifer Daniel

🌹| Unicode Emoji Subcommittee-Chair | Blob Necromancer | Emoticon Lorax | 𓀟 𓀥 𓀠 𓀤 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣

Smart and funny and one of the controllers of the future of saying things in tiny ways.

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Liana’s Newsletter

By Liana Finck

A weekly selection of drawings by New Yorker cartoonist and matador Liana Finck, sent out on Wednesdays. Paid subscribers will also get a Sunday email of autobiographical comics, process drawings, and other behind-the-scenes things. www.lianafinck.com

Better than therapy. Also funny.

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pocketful of 𝛘tals

By Aaron Celestian

Exploring the intricate nexus of art and science, and how we can think differently about our planet.

Badreads

By Lauren Hough

Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.

TruthToMaterials by Andrew Williamson

Reflections on the creative process by a full time photo+video person who's not a writer.

Night Studio

By Anne Ehrlich

I draw and write about dreams, hiking, plants and other fascinations.

Collagey-inky-theady descriptions of the process of feeling while making.

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The Elysian

By Elle Griffin

Exploring a utopian future through essay collections and print pamphlets.

This newsletter gently upends the publishing pyramid scheme in a search for ways of being a writer that actually gets paid a living wage. Elle Griffin comes from the perspective of a novelist writing stories sharing practical advice while uncovering a path to valuing art in an algorithmic era.

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Mac’s Newsletter

By Mac Barnett

From the Desk of Mac Barnett

Letters of Note

By Shaun Usher

Nothing but history's most interesting letters.

Better than a course in writing.

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Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

I never read this but I should because he is a generous genius and it makes me feel like a real writer just to have it in my mailbox.

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The Substack Post

By Substack

A guide to the creators and stories shaping culture

Colourful and useful mix of recommendations from around the world of newsletters.

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Ani’s Secret Files ❤️

By Ani Castillo

Hello my sweet friend, Welcome to my newsletter! Here I'm sharing some of the writing I do in my journals, some of the thinking I do in my head and some of the living I do in my life ☺️❤️

An author for humans. A drawer for the world.

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crop samples

By Laurie D. Graham

Poetry, green things, the great failed colonial experiment

The foraged color of poetry

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DrawTogether with WendyMac

By Wendy MacNaughton

Drawing explorations, lessons, and weekly art assignments from New York Times-bestselling artist Wendy MacNaughton. Paying subscribers get full access to the DrawTogether Grown-Ups Table creative community and drawing assignments.

Opening minds of all ages.

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Jon Klassen Things

thoughts and updates on my work as a picture book author / illustrator

blessed images

By kyrell grant

a selection of blessed images curated by my smooth brain

You have to see it

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MoMa Weekly

By MoMa UK

Art competitions. Creative resources. Wonderful things.