Hardscrabble Maine

Hardscrabble Maine

About the Substack

Originally a place to serialize my novel, Mercy (still available to read for free for now), I will continue to publish personal essays on life in working class Maine.

Free Subscription Benefits

• Thought-provoking fiction and essays (and sometimes a poem or two.)

Paid Subcription Benefits

• The satisfaction of supporting the arts
• Access to occasional paywalled posts
• Knowing that you are helping make literature available to everyone

Paid Subscription Plans

• $50 a year
• $5 a month

About Jennie Robertson

Jennie Robertson is a writer and teacher from Maine. She has been published in MaryJane’s Farm, Broken Pencil, the anthologies So Glad They Told Me and Here in the Middle, and online on Literary Mama, Mothers Always Write, and others.