Top Fiction Substacks

#1 We are the weirdos, mister.

#1 NYT best-selling author of The Familiar, Ninth House, Shadow & Bone, Six of Crows, The Invisible Parade, and suchlike🌙

#2 The Happenings of Jeanne St. James, Romance Author

Keep up to date with Jeanne St. James, Romance Author!

#3 the stories.cc

histórias de amor contadas em forma de texto. não tão longas quanto um romance, mas suficientes pra te fazer sentir. seja lá o que for... enviadas todo domingo, às 08:08.

#4 Michael J. Sullivan's Substack

I'm a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post fantasy novelist of 20 books across 4 series: Riyria Revelations | Riyria Chronicles | Legends of the First Empire | Rise and Fall.

#5 Strange Pilgrims

Real, surreal, & brutally beautiful writing ✦ Free submissions ✦ Pays $50-$200 ✦ Independent, ad-free, & reader-supported

#6 CREATIVITY & WRITING

For your writing craft and creative growth.

#7 Miaverse

Writing love at first quirk romance as Mia Harlan and Mia Sands.

#8 Fairy Tales by Caroline

Fiction, fairy tales, and essays, delivered every Wednesday and Sunday

#9 Dark Romance Club

Deliciously filthy dark romance. Magnetic men, mouthy women and yes, I write the alphas I want to read (and occasionally have). Subscribe for chapters, extras & recs💫 🔞

#10 Smiling Through the Tears

I write emotionally uplifting fiction stories that might just make you cry.

#11 Sara Adrien

I write Regency romance that weaves untold love stories. Subscribe for: – Behind-the-scenes author notes – Bite-sized historical gems – Plot voting + early drafts (paid tier) If you’ve ever wished your romance novels came with more depth, you're home!

#12 Kirsten Weiss’s Substack

Re-enchanting the Everyday with Cozy Mysteries, Tarot Wisdom, and Mythic Magic. Author of smart, slightly spooky mysteries with humor and heart.

#13 Intelligence Bulletin from Author Daniel P. Douglas

Enter the declassified world of author Daniel P. Douglas where extraordinary revelations await the curious and the brave. Receive exclusive updates, behind-the-scenes insights, and highly sensitive recon reports about my book deals and discounts.

#14 Orlog Chronicles : Stories & Adventures of Oussama Ammar

"Orlog" is a term from Old Norse, meaning "primal law" or "ultimate law", often associated with concepts of fate or destiny. If a work called "The Orlog Chronicles" does exist, it may involve themes related to these concepts. And many more.

#15 Fiction Writing With AI

Actionable frameworks & ChatGPT prompts for timeless storytelling techniques.

#16 Beautiful Losers

we are so lightly here, friends

#17 Apple's Story

Romance, fantasy love.

#18 The Hinge & The Near Field | Lawrence Winnerman

Connecting the dots on an accelerating world—and turning its hinge moments into near-future fiction.

#19 The Blank Page

Author and book marketer 📖 Sharing behind the scenes of writing my first book, navigating the publishing industry, and building a creative business to help you do the same ✨

#20 Stories by AI

Unique tales written, illustrated, and narrated with AI

#21 The Falcon's Children

A serialized fantasy novel

#22 G J Ogden's scifi & fantasy author newsletter

G J Ogden is a Kindle Storyteller Award winner and an internationally bestselling SFF author. If you love Star Trek, Conan, and kickass SFF, this is the place for you!

#23 daddysnorlaxx

essays and fiction

#24 Author Shari’s J. Ryan's Community

A day in the life of my imagination...

#25 All of Me by Anna Vatuone

For nearly a decade, I’ve shared my life online. Now I'm making sense of what I’ve learned. 'All of Me' is about living authentically, yes. But it's also about the toll it takes, and how it changes us. Soul food for anyone who dares to be seen.

#26 I.V. Ophelia

I.V. Ophelia is the author of the gothic vampire series The Poisoner (Simon & Schuster Maverick/UK, 2026), Fruit of the Flesh (Montlake, 2026) and other literary transgressions. More at ivophelia.com/links

#27 Josh Czuba

Stories for humans.

#28 Rebecca Hefner Books

Join me as we chat about my sexy alpha heroes and the badass women they'd burn the world down for!

#29 Hilary Layne

Culture and the culture of storytelling. The home of The Book Club (more information inside). You can also find my essays, book reviews, and poetry.

#30 Max Winter

Short stories. Some optioned by Netflix, Treefort Media, & more. Pen name of producer Chris Goldberg. 20 years in Book-to-Film

#31 Outland Entertainment

Outland Entertainment publishes the finest in sci-fi, fantasy, and horror novels, anthologies, comics, and games.

#32 Lorie’s stories💕🌸

Welcome to my page! Feel at home!

#33 RAW THIRST

Dark, explicit MM fiction set in Steel Valley — a post-industrial town where want runs the economy. New episodes every week. Always NSFW, Always 18+.

#34 M’s Substack

My personal Substack

#35 Jon Cronshaw - fantasy and speculative fiction author

Jon Cronshaw is a British fantasy and speculative fiction writer who weaves tales brimming with adventure, escapism, and an exploration of life’s profound questions.

#36 Author Barry Eisler

Welcome to my Substack author page, where I post periodic book-related news. For more frequent musings about geopolitics, media, and the craft of writing fiction, stop by my other Substack page, The Heart of the Matter.

#37 DeAnna Drake | Cozy Mystery Readers Club

A cozy corner for lovers of paranormal and classic mysteries—serving up exclusive stories, sneak peeks, and catly commentary from cozy mystery author DeAnna Drake.

#38 jessie cave

I write when I can and when I write I’m better

#39 Castle Grief

Settings, house rules, adventures, and ideas for your TTRPG experience.

#40 Fiction About True Stuff

Someone once said that being a writer is like being a lawyer with no responsibilities. If that's true then I definitely have the gift. 🏳️‍🌈✊🏽

#41 Fiction Attic Press

We publish flash fiction, personal essays, memoir, and novellas-in-flash. A home for great writing online since 2005.

#42 The Write Way

The Write Way is a free newsletter for writers who care about their craft. Learn how to write persuasive and powerful prose that gets you noticed - without selling your soul to social media content mills or CrapGPT prompting.

#43 Story and Plot Screenwriting

Lessons from 29 years of professional screenwriting and almost as long teaching it.

#44 The Official Universal Fantasy™ Substack

A Thought Encylopedia for using Universal Fantasy® to Sell Your Stories to ANYONE. Also, tips, tricks, and hacks for living your best writer life

#45 Worldbuilding Magazine

Updates on latest magazine issues.

#46 The Creative Ritual

A fiction author exploring creativity. How do artists use creative rituals to beat resistance?

#47 Newton’s Tales of the Macabre

Dark British horror stories with sinister secrets, ghastly monsters, folk rituals, sharp twists, and brutal endings.

#48 The Sunday Morning Transport

An amazing science fiction/fantasy short story each week.

#49 Jonah Feingold's The Romantical

The official home for original romantic comedies created by filmmaker Jonah Feingold, delivered to your inbox every month.

#50 Taboo Gay Erotic Stories

Every week, a new line gets crossed. Stepdads, stepbrothers, cousins, priests, coaches, public, oh my. 💦

#51 Short Story, Long

Longer short stories, published biweekly

#52 Fiction ZigZags

The Joys (and Challenges) of Writing Fiction

#53 A Thousand Tales

Alex Evans' fanstasy and sci fi newsletter

#54 Prattlefog & Gravelrap

A monthly article series about the elements of short fiction: ideas for rocket-boosting your writing craft, reading recommendations, and other writing-related ramblings.

#55 Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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"

#56 Lee’s Substack

My personal Substack

#57 Twisted tales to make you laugh and think

Writing, dreaming, and living life to the max

#58 Stolen Wives

Stolen Wives is a premium archive of hotwife and cuckold stories about ordinary marriages, dangerous desire, jealousy, humiliation, and the men who realize too late that their wives are not just fantasizing anymore.

#59 Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

The circus is here, and you forgot to lock your door: M.P. Fitzgerald writes dark-humored sci-fi for dream criminals.

#60 Liah Wilder's Erotic Club

Erotic short stories

#61 Lord Prepare Me

but first, I have questions

#62 Fiction. Feminism. Fat Girls.

Dismantling systems of oppression one romance novel at a time.

#63 Rediscovered Realms

The weekly (3,000+ subscriber) Fantasy newsletter that reconnects you with heroic fantasy worlds of your favorite books, epic games, unearthed magazines, forgotten gamebooks, movies and enchanting art - old school & new. 👑

#64 Fantasy Camp™

Fantasy is so camp ✧ Sci-fi & fantasy in flash fiction, design, and pop culture.

#65 Tayná Saez

este é um correio para compartilhar crônicas e contos inéditos, informações sobre minhas aulas de escrita criativa, dicas de leitura, links bacanas e outras sutilezas que salvam o minuto. não encho sua caixa de entrada, chego 1 vez ao mês.

#66 Odinson Games

Content for weird, metal, and old-school RPGs.

#67 FAZENDO DRAMA

Escrever é costurar sentidos.

#68 YOSHINO'S DIARY

A diary by Yoshino

#69 Nina Potter | The Magical Book Club Sanctuary

Welcome to The Magical Book Club Sanctuary. Escape into a Paranormal Women’s Fiction series featuring Diane, a 40-something witch, and Thorne, her grumpy 600-year-old gargoyle protector. Exclusive serialized fiction, written and released only on Substack.

#70 The Mindful Writer

The Mindful Writer is where we live and write more mindfully and use our words and stories to bring more peace, love and unity to the world.

#71 A Writer’s Voice

Stories and poems, small fires to share the dark.

#72 M.S. Olney's Substack

Read new World's of Epic Adventure

#73 Ashlynn’s Substack

Darkly romantic fiction and intimate essays for women who want love, ambition, and a life of their own.

#74 Haunting the Hunter

An audiobook narrator and artist writing an unhinged dark romance

#75 Mandy’s Substack

Self-help, creative writing, and honest short stories from Mandy Tang. New post every Monday, dispatching from Eugene, Oregon.

#76 Step-by-Step Worldbuilding

Overwhelmed by fantasy worldbuilding? I give writers and gamers the tools to go beyond just 'cool ideas' and build deeper, smarter, story-ready worlds.

#77 The Archive In Between

Welcome to the Archive In Between's substack, where longer written stories from the many worlds of the Archive can be found!

#78 Words for Worlds

Science fiction and fantasy, with an Indian slant

#79 Valerie’s Substack

My personal Substack

#80 Shango’s Newsletter

Erotica and Other Cuckold Tales

#81 a fun cozy mystery/adventure substack by BK MacKay

We are a husband and wife writing team working on our first cozy mystery/adventure series. If you like light-hearted fun cozy mysteries and thrillers, then kick back and enjoy the antics of PK Kincaid and his sidekicks in these laugh out loud episodes

#82 Morgan Wylie's Realms and Doorways

A USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of YA fantasy and speculative fiction. Her work explores imagination, identity, and transformation, both within story and beyond it. Step through the doorway and into the realm of possibility.

#83 Novalis

"The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are." -- Karl Kraus

#84 Tales of the Unexpected

A collection of short stories and flash fiction with a dark twist from the mind of T.D. Priestley. If you love The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits then you're in the right place. If you think Black Mirror is clever, this isn't for you.

#85 Raconteur Press

The home of the musings from the gang at Raconteur Press. In the tradition of the pulps of the early SF era, we're publishing entertaining novels, anthologies, and boys' books full of adventure every month!

#86 Jim Melvin's Realms of Fantasy

I am a novelist whose main focus is epic and dark fantasy but who also writes a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. Please sign up to receive my free newsletter.

#87 Rae Knightly

Musings by a sci-fi author for middle-graders and young adults (MG/YA). Mostly daydreaming but you can come along.

#88 my vape is dying

WORLD'S BEST FICTION

#89 Porém Carol Chiovatto

Livros que escrevo, coisas que leio: fantasia, ficção científica, escrita criativa, com bruxas ficcionais no meio

#90 Daily Wonder by Ana Harrison

Stories and reflections on motherhood, faith and everyday life. Subscribe 💌

#91 Carmilla Weekly

Inspired by Dracula Daily (and Frankenstein Daily) get Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla to your inbox every Saturday from 28 August to 18 December.

#92 Published With Passion

My personal Substack

#93 Coming of Age: The Journey of a Teenaged Drug Dealer

Embark on an unforgettable journey through the turbulent world of Ryan, a high school wrestler and a popular drug dealer, who's achieved the life he's always dreamed of; a life that will tear him apart.

#94 Darling Horror

Weekly fiction for horror fans.

#95 Oneiric Figurations

#96 The Typing Cat Dispatch

Thrilling tales of swords, science, and terror! From epic fantasy to cyberpunk and all things between.

#97 Firewords Campfire

a serialised literary magazine - fortnightly fiery fiction,
poetry & artwork in your inbox

#98 PINK INK | with author Rachael Johns

Reading, writing and trusting the magic with one of Australia's bestselling authors 💖

#99 Melinda’s Substack

Melinda Kucsera writes fantastic short stories, novels, and books when not being kidnapped by dragons or chased by armies of fictional creatures. (We do, on occasion, rescue her.)

#100 Alex Robertson

Hi All Alex here, I'm a writer from Melbourne, Australia, I write gay erotica, delving into raw, unfiltered human emotions, themes include Cheating & Infidelity, Cuckold Fantasies, Taboo Relationships and BDSM.