Top Substacks this Week: May 18, 2026

Each week, we highlight the top substacks that have been submitted to us for you to vote!

Laura Lynch

Reflection on my daughter’s addiction and recovery.

Laura Lynch • Faith & Spirituality

states of matter

Essays on travel, transformation, and the selves we become, plus tools for finding your own. A space where claiming your story matters. All versions of self are welcome.

michelle ray • Education

Curiously Delulu Substack

A delulu diary of a 40 yr old trying to keep her shit together. Posting daily musings from her imaginary G wagon.

Curiously Delulu • Humor

The Story Mode Newsletter

All the latest updates, reviews, features, interview and more from Story Mode: A Gaming Magazine Visit us at storymode.info

Story Mode Team • Technology

ComicScene

Welcome to the ComicScene Culture Review

ComicScene Culture Review • 9K+ subscribers Comics

Swoją drogą

Veni, vidi, probavi – piszę tylko o tym, co sprawdziłem. Praca, rodzina (1+5), relacje, pasje. Swoją drogą, no bo czyją?

Tomek Stradomski • Business

Maya Bairey

Maya Bairey writes about the messy, brave work of making art, and the even messier work of being human. Here you'll find essays on craft and creativity, reflections tied to each full moon, and honest thoughts on writing romance and women's fiction.

Maya Bairey • Literature

Speaker Accelerator

Your weekly hub for TEDx speaker opportunities, open application links, deadlines, storytelling tools, and real-world insights from preparing and delivering my own TEDx talk all to get you closer to the stage. Not affiliated with TED.

Travel Not to Escape • 2K+ subscribers Business

Chaos & Amazement

Weekly newsletter about the impact of digital technology on our daily lives

Clo Willaerts • 1K+ subscribers Technology

Stiff Upper Quip

Writing about politics and culture

James Harris • 2K+ subscribers Culture

From the Hip

Insights into personal safety, security, self-defence, and resilience.

Aran Dharmeratnam • Travel

FJ Research

Bold Bets on Category-Defining Companies

FJ Research • 2K+ subscribers Finance

Esoteric Isle

Esoteric 00s Teen Magazine for Adults. Travel, History, Art, Wellbeing, Fashion, Tall Tales & Small Witchy Businesses. Home of the world's first Esoteric Events Newsletter. Created and curated by Anna aka Esoteric Isle.

Esoteric Isle • 1K+ subscribers Culture

Moneycircus

A Geopolitical Field Guide to Predators and Prey

Moneycircus • 2K+ subscribers World Politics

Chuck Publications (Chuck Magazine & Chuck's Daily Grind)

Chuck Magazine is a Canadian online satirical zine published monthly from Nova Scotia. Chuck's Daily Grind is Chuck's sister (daily) publication. Both take aim at politics and pop culture. Chuck publication's creator is Gord McGlynn.

Gord McGlynn • Humor

Pelos Corredores

Bastidores da Escola: adolescência e a vida que acontece no Ensino Médio

Michelle Kauffmann • Education

The Eudaimoniac

Philosophy and literature for careful minds in a noisy, confusing world.

Brenna Lee • Philosophy

Personality Disorder

A newsletter devoid of news. Or letter. Subscribe to gain valuable insights into all the mundane and seemingly innocuous things in modern life that are slowly suffocating and killing the author.

Brian Howard • Humor

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