Accidental Mentors | Annette Marquis

Recommended by Annette Marquis

Stories of Vietnam curated for sharing.

Weekly letters about slow, creative living from my island home in Shetland. Sharing everyday magic and memories, photographing the little moments & forever chasing the light.

ZENish

By Baz Dokuzan Morris

For writers, artists, and creatives who need to quiet their mind and gain greater clarity around their writing, art, and life.

Zen Wisdom encourages us to take a breath and focus on the task or activity at hand. In a world of multi-tasking and constant input, this encourages us to slow down--something I cherish but am not always very good at.

- Annette Marquis

Books & Women

By Maggie May Ethridge

Weekly interviews with women-identifying writers & one post weekly about all things women and writing.

To those who know me, it's obvious why I would be recommending "Books & Women"--two of the things I love most in the world. Women writers need to be lifted up in as many places as they can be. "Books & Women" does that beautifully.

- Annette Marquis

Substack Reads

Your guide to great writing happening on Substack, plus the home of “The Active Voice,” a podcast by Hamish McKenzie.

This is an easy way to find great writers on Substack without having to search through topics that interest you.

- Annette Marquis

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

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

Letters from an American

By Heather Cox Richardson

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

Memoir Land

By Memoir Monday

Three verticals: Memoir Monday: A collaboration among Granta, Guernica, Narratively, The Rumpus, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Oldster Magazine; First Person Singular original essays; The Lit Lab interviews + craft essays.

If you like reading memoir like I do, you will enjoy the many curated essays from around the web that you'll find here. It feels like a sweet indulgence to devoir these many stories all in one place. And if you write memoir, you'll find information about craft, publishing, marketing, etc in The Lit Lab. Memoir Land is wonderfully rich resource.

- Annette Marquis