The Life Boat
by Samantha Clarkin 🎭️ Culture
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The Life Boat
About the Substack
Keep your creativity afloat with weekly letters from a windswept Scottish island about living a creative life by the sea, sharing the art and books that help us stay buoyant. Subscriber co-working on Wednesdays. Climb aboard.
Free Subscription Benefits
- Weekly public posts, every Wednesday
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Weekly public posts with audio voiceover
- Weekly Life Raft co-working sessions
- Life Buoy subscriber community chat
Paid Subscription Plans
- £7 a month
- £50 a year
About Samantha Clark
Visual artist and writer, artist's writing coach. Orkney islander, author of THE CLEARING, writing about creativity, water and the art, books, people and places that can help us stay afloat. Occasional refreshing blasts of windswept island life.
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