Best Fiction Newsletters on Substack (2024)

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry by 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).

A twice weekly newsletter chock-full of guidance and support from publishing industry insiders. Expect author interviews, guest blogs, giveaways, and more!

Exclusive fiction too out-there for prime time, by the author of Fight Club. Writing lessons. Lurid back story.

Stories, poems, thoughts & more stories: the Alphabet Soup in my mind just keeps simmering.

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity

Monthly Flash Fiction Craft Articles & Prompts by Writer & Teacher, Kathy Fish

Beth Brower Scribbles Away is a twice monthly publication consisting of: The Bookshelf (a free newsletter) & The St. Crispian's Gazette (scenes, letters, and short stories from St. Crispian's).

How three friends came together to write a romance novel

Elle Griffin writes The Elysian, a weekly newsletter thinking through a better future and utopian fiction bringing it to life. She is currently studying 2000+ years of utopian thought and is exploring how we can better capitalism, democracy, and the systems that support humanity through essays, fiction, and discourse.

Substack's biggest and brightest circus of single author short fiction from two-time Best of Detroit Best Author Nominee Jimmy Doom--"One of this century's master storytellers"

An amazing science fiction/fantasy short story each week.

Official Substack of Killing Eve creator Luke Jennings. Subscribers get weekly instalments of new Killing Eve adventures. Paid subscribers get exclusive access to bonus and behind-the-scenes material.

The Author Stack sits at the intersection of craft and commerce, helping writers build more sustainable businesses that allow them to thrive while creating work that lights them up inside. We strive to give authors agency in a world that too often seems intent on stripping it away from them.

Fiction Writing With AI is the leading paid newsletter for digital-first storytellers. Combining timeliness storytelling techniques with actionable frameworks, each week we share these proven principles and then leverage them by providing fiction writers with ChatGPT prompts to accelerate all parts of the creative process. This is everything you could possibly need to become a successful storyteller in today's exciting new world of digital publishing.

A newsletter from the insider publishing friend every writer needs. New posts on Fridays!

I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.

An ocean of stories from Salman Rushdie: I'll be talking about stories I’ve read or seen, true stories, tall stories, stories about me, and some I just made up.

fiction craft, publishing demystification, weird books

Fiction and essays on the extraordinary nature of ordinary life.

New writing by Philip Best, publisher at Amphetamine Sulphate

Humor pieces, short stories, updates on my novels and other writing, plus other fun stuff.

A novelist's no-bullsh*t, non-fluffy guide to writing fiction and memoir. Weekly essays about current affairs and life in general. Comment and debate.

A Serialization Experiment

Art & AI technology to transform the way that people experience the world.

I make ^%$# up in my head and transfer it into yours. Offering you deep-dives, funny stories, exclusive excerpts from unpublished books, and sometimes a live chicken, all from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling romantic comedy author.