Recommended by Tanya Shadrick
Patti Smith's Just Kids was one of the memoirs that made my own possible: a love letter to creative persistence & daily attention to chance encounters. Like Whitman’s Leaves of Grass & Thoreau’s Walden, it was a book that made me want to write one of my own at last, just to feel in their lineage, however distantly. Do follow Patti Smith on here if you aren't already - she is sharing things of such fun, generosity and quiet grace: music, musings, work-in-progress.
Lorraine Candy - author of a bestselling parenting book & co-host with Trish Hallin of the brilliant Postcards From Midlife podcast - has now put together The Candy Club on Substack as a place to share more of what she’s learning & enjoying. Do join us there, where she & I will be sharing a monthly column for anyone in midlife who wants to become more awake to new possibilities. More details coming soon over on The Candy Club!
A 'journal of post-civilised neurodiversity and wild mind' that over a decade has published eight issues of the magazine: anthologies of art and writing that travel deep into the human (and other-than-human) psyche. Unpsychology have published authors and artists from all around the world. Some are well known writers and artists including Jay Griffiths, Tanya Shadrick, Thomas Hübl, Helen Moore, Susan Richardson and Bill Plotkin. However, many contributors have never been published before...
Dr Sharon Blackie's word-of-mouth classic If Women Rose Rooted offers a powerful vision of how women can journey to a greater sense of authenticity and belonging. Her Substack is a great place to start for those who want to find out more about her work as a writer, storyteller and psychologist.
