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philomena marie's avatar

Writing is how I realize myself (and I enjoy flirting with the idea that sharing my work might also help others realize themselves). It is only after I’ve worked through an event on paper—the present version of myself in conversation with the past, an opportunity to experience numerous lives simultaneously—that I gain the fullest understanding of it. To me, such knowledge gained is a rebellion against what can sometimes feel like the innate monotony of life and I dedicate an inordinate amount of time to staving off that feeling.

My publication is: stillwatercreek.substack.com. Thank you for your consideration!

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Garrett Van A.'s avatar

No one more deserving ♥️♥️

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philomena marie's avatar

thank you thank you so much!! 😁😁

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bea🪻's avatar

GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP YOURE AN ABSOLUTE ICON AND SO TALENTED ILY

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philomena marie's avatar

THANK YOU BEA ILYYY 💗💗

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Abha Ahad's avatar

I love reading you work. Hope you win this scholarship. You deserve it.

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philomena marie's avatar

thank you so much!! 🫶🏽🫶🏽

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Raju Tai's avatar

Writing is a dual SIM phone - I write to call my deep down self, I write to call the up and above world. I write to tell myself what is worth gratitude, and what is worth a better attitude. Writing is the only source of power I trust. 💜

My substack is called Creative Resilience https://rajutai.substack.com/

Thank you Evelyn for supporting writers. 🫰🌻

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Sai Raje's avatar

Your writing stirs hope and cradles the messy, sometimes unseen, dark corners of ourselves with care. Shine on, Raju! ✨💛

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Raju I’m heading over to you after this captivating write to call down, call up.

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Raju Tai's avatar

I’m so glad to meet your writing today Prajna. Can’t wait to start from the piece on inhabiting our bodies to heal. ♥️

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Amy Brown's avatar

Mia, how fun! I am joining you with my notebook and pen but I suspect we have too much to say about writing to actually do any writing:-)

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Phoebe Freer's avatar

Wow, I love your writing Raju. So much fun along with deep insight. 💛

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Raju Tai's avatar

Phoebe! ♥️ Thank you. So good to discover you here.

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Writing has saved my life. Writing is everything to me, the way I know how to express myself, the place where I get to play, the place where I am the most alive. In letting my words fall out and showing up for myself and others, I am continuing to build bridges of connection with other wide open hearts.

My stack is called Let the Words Fall Out

https://open.substack.com/pub/mesafama

Thank you, Evelyn, for this wonderful opportunity to keep growing and going ❤️❤️

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Kathy Napoli's avatar

You were the first writer I subscribed to on Substack Mesa. You still inspire me.

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you, Kathy! I’m so glad to know that!!

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Me too Kathy! Mesa was my first subscription after Elizabeth Gilbert! Love you Mesa K. 🌹

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Autumn Widdoes's avatar

I think we are both Vegas based writers! We should do a Substack meetup sometime.

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Hi Autumn!! I am in Vegas!! That would be so fun to meet a fellow writer in real life!!

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Holly Starley's avatar

Good to know where you are, my friend. I get around a lot. Will hit you up for a possible Vegas meet-up next time I roll through Nevada. :)

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Yes please!!! I’d love to meet up with you!!

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Autumn Widdoes's avatar

Yes, would love that! It would be great to see if other Substackers based in Vegas want to do a meetup. I don't even know where to get started with that.

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Phoebe Freer's avatar

I agree with every word of this, Mesa. 🧡

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thanks so much, Phoebe ❤️❤️

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Holly Starley's avatar

Aw what a pleasure to see you here, Mesa!

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thanks, Holly!! Great to see you too!! 😍😍😍

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Kristina God's avatar

Finger crossed, Mesa! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you, Kristina!! Fingers, toes, arms, legs, and eyes crossed 😍🤣

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Solidarity. 🔥

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you my friend!! Xoxo

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Amy Brown's avatar

Writing has saved my life, too, Mesa and connection is one of its chief values for me. Love the name of your Substack. Thanks for letting me know about this opportunity to write about our love of writing, through your Note.

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Mesa Fama's avatar

You’re so very welcome, Amy!! So glad to connect with you here!! ❤️

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Moon Arica's avatar

Let the words fall out! I like that. Sounds like you are writing straight from your heart!

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you, Moon! That’s the only way I know how to write 💙💙

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Moon Arica's avatar

That's authentic!

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Constellations In Her Bones's avatar

Magical Mesa! So grateful for your heart and your words. So here to celebrate you and this wonderful collaboration of writers. Let’s keep writing! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you sister friend ❤️❤️ grateful for you!!

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Constellations In Her Bones's avatar

Of course! Super grateful for you too! ♥️♥️♥️

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kaylen alexandra's avatar

Here’s to you, Mesa!! Casting my vote, my heart, my solidarity to your falling words, always. ✨

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Mesa Fama's avatar

Thank you sweet friend ❤️❤️❤️ I L Y ❤️❤️❤️

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Mia Harlan's avatar

You start reading my comment and get teleported to a cafe. I wave at you from a table by the window, gesturing at the empty seat I saved for you. "Writing is my escape," I tell you when you join me, "but it's no fun escaping alone, so I hope you'll join me." https://miaverse.substack.com

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Loraine Bowman (aka JL Bowman)'s avatar

I love reading your newsletter when it comes to my inbox! The way I feel included into your not-vampire family gives me joy and makes me laugh. Thanks for your awesomness!

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Awww thank you that means a lot! ❤️

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Danika Bloom (she/her)'s avatar

When your "You've been transported" emails land in my inbox ... I really am transported and it stops me in my "delete, delete, delete" tracks. SO much fun! So much voice. SO many jokes poked at your poor Not-a-Vampire husband. 🤣

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Thanks Danika! ♥️♥️

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Jana's avatar

I love that, beutiful!!!

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Thank you! ♥️

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CandiceLee's avatar

Your newsletters are hilarious, I always make sure to read every one!

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Awww thank you ❤️

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Moon Arica's avatar

This is awesome and the beginning of a great story :)

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Thank you ♥️

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Cali Mann's avatar

Awesome

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Plata Life (she/her)'s avatar

Writing is how I make sense of a world that doesn’t quite make sense to me. It is the place where all of my parts gather and have a voice. For me, writing is where I can witness, hold (even for just a few seconds), and alchemize the ✨magic✨of the every day life.

My Substack is still finding its form but I love to write about creativity and the mundane every day life.

https://platalife.substack.com

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Lindsay's avatar

I feel this so hard.

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Love this

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Amy Brown's avatar

"Alchemize the magic"--100%!

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

I found myself enthusiastically nodding to everything you just wrote!

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Amy Cowen's avatar

Love this description.

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Writing is a bright, juicy orange on a hot, smokey day. It reminds me that I am alive, and that this living is worth the experience, even when my eyes water from the heat and long for clearer days. My hope, always, is that there are plenty of wedges to pass around- that the bright, citrus scent will bring weary neighbors to my porch, and we will sit on the steps with juice dripping down our chins and smile at one another.

I write Touching the Elephant, and I'd love to share it with you as well!

https://touchingtheelephant.substack.com

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Holly Starley's avatar

Fabulous stack title. I will hop on over and check it out. :)

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

I was thinking the same thing! Love the title.

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Thanks, Holly!

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Hayley Jensen's avatar

I love your descriptions - I can smell, taste and feel the stickiness at this moment, and it is sublime. I've never thought of writing as citrus and smoke, and now I'm obsessed. I also love the sense of community and neighborhood, to know and be within a close proximity to someone enough to care for and celebrate with them. I long for such writer "neighbors." Thank you for sharing.

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Thank you for this thoughtful response! Smoke & Citrus sounds like an amazing title or shop name, right? And you're spot on about community. Yes! ♥️✨️♥️

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Hannah Lacy's avatar

Love how sensory your writing is Kendall!!

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Thanks, Hannah! ❤️❤️❤️

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Kelly Thompson TNWWY's avatar

Gorgeous!

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Thanks, Kelly! ❤️

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Amy Brown's avatar

I love this vivid metaphor, the contrast of the juicy orange and the hot, smokey day. I can see this scene just as you've imagined it, the juice dripping down our chins. Thank you for this, Kendall.

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Thank you, Amy! ❤️

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

I use "cutting an orange" as a way to teach writing from the senses, so having you use this to ignite our senses just made me smile, Kendall. Then I saw your Substack title and felt that you were, absolutely, my kind of writer!!

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Kendall Lamb's avatar

Wow, thank you Ariane! I'm so happy to have found each other here! (Passes an orange slice).

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

Oh... yum, so fragrant and juicy! A new turn on sharing a cup of tea... lovin' it!

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Phoebe Freer's avatar

Writing is a deeply healing and joyous practice for me. It is my way of connecting with like-hearted people, as I creatively express my unique stories and curiosities. My Substack: Life Writing Alchemy, is designed to support others in their writing journeys also. Let's heal, play & connect through words. Much love, Phoebe, 💛

https://lifewritingalchemy.substack.com/

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Mesa Fama's avatar

And I agree with everything you wrote too!! Clearly we’re walking similar paths in our writing 😍😍😍

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Kristin A. Demoro's avatar

Just subscribed! It looks great and I'm looking forward to getting into it. :)

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Hannah Lacy's avatar

Writing is my healing practice too, love this Phoebe!!

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Amy Brown's avatar

Heal, play, connect. That's it, exactly!

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Jana's avatar

Writing has been here for me through ups and downs. It's how I wrote myself through grief, break-ups, burnout, and euphoric victories. In writing, I can be me, no pretending, sugarcoating, or holding back.

https://coffeebreaknewsletter.substack.com/

Thank you, Evelyn 💕

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Amy Brown's avatar

That's it, exactly. And it's always there for us, isn't it?

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Toni Giselle Stuart's avatar

Marva J. Dawn said "words create worlds". My life continues to show me how the stories we tell become the lives we creative and end up living. So I listen for, and write, the stories that help my people (creole/brown/black South Africans) heal our ancestral wounds, so we can reclaim our ancestral wisdoms & gifts, and remember who and what we truly are. Writing is the tool I use for this remembering: of our intimate connection to the land; of our beauty; our power & our magic.

My substack is slow sensual creativity: https://slowsensualcreativity.substack.com/

Thank you Evelyn Skye for supporting writers so generously.

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Amy Brown's avatar

Wow! This is such a beautiful mission you have with your writing. What better way to live a life! And yes, stories that can heal ancestral wounds. I believe that is the only way people can heal. Through the stories, shared across the generations. This is important work you are doing in the world.

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Toni Giselle Stuart's avatar

Thank you for your kind and encouragement words, Amy. It means a lot to me, truly.

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

What a gorgeous title - Slow Sensual Creativity

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Toni Giselle Stuart's avatar

oh thank you Lisa, that’s so kind of you! Your message has really made my day

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The Sleepy Wildflower's avatar

Writing is my therapy. It sets me free and allows my inner child to come out and play. With every word that I write, I find solace in the curves of each letter.

My name is Melissa and I write The Art and Life of a Wildflower. https://thesleepywildflower.substack.com

🧡

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Monique Gerritsen's avatar

Yay Melissa! I always love your writing (and your art!)

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The Sleepy Wildflower's avatar

Aww, thank you, Monique! 🥹🧡

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Amy Brown's avatar

This is so beautifully expressed, "solace in the curves of each letter." And I love wildflowers. I will stop by and visit.

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The Sleepy Wildflower's avatar

Thank you so much, Amy. 🧡

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

And what other creative wonders might join you and your inner child if your Inner Teen joined the party?

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The Sleepy Wildflower's avatar

That’s a really good question, Ariane. My teenage years were filled with poetry and drawings of wildflowers. The poetry still lives with me and I became a real-life wildflower, growing wildly and freely despite the earth-trembling storms. 🧡🌻

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

You fit the profile of an adult who has followed the creative path laid down in your teen years. This bodes so well for how your Inner Teen, now, can be a conscious, thriving part of your creativity, as well as an active ally for other members of your Inner Family. I deeply appreciate what you've shared! And if I had any idea how to add an emoji from my desktop, I'd give you back hearts and flowers too!!!

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

"Solace in the curves of each letter" - lovely!

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The Sleepy Wildflower's avatar

Thank you, Lisa! 🥰

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Kaitlyn Elizabeth's avatar

Writing is less a thing I do and more a place I go. There I can see what I feel and what I care about so clearly. When I go there, I sense my belonging and trust myself more deeply.

https://substack.com/@dialoguing

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Holly Starley's avatar

Isn't it fabulous how writing can enable us to become more ourselves?!

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Kaitlyn Elizabeth's avatar

It’s wild. Feels like a coming home 💕

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

And maybe it's a closed system loop: we write -> become more ourselves, so -> we write some more as we -> become more ourselves. I think you're onto something, Holly!

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Holly Starley's avatar

Nice! ;)

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Annieinthecity's avatar

I often also go back in time when I write.

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Kaitlyn Elizabeth's avatar

Totally!

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

What a beautiful description!

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Kaitlyn Elizabeth's avatar

Thank you Lisa!!

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Hayley Jensen's avatar

Isn't it magical to at least trust ourselves and build that trust? Trust is a rare commodity in the world, and I find writing does help me at least know and trust my own voice, but also find other people who can be honest. It's hard to be a good writer without honesty. The world needs more of that, doesn't it?

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Tanmeet Sethi, MD's avatar

When I learned my son had a fatal illness, my writing carried me through the darkness and now is the luminosity that gives his life and all injustice more weight in a world that tries to give us stories that are too small. It gives me a way to make sense of the world when what lays before me makes no sense. Writing is my doorway to belonging, a path to Justice.

My Substack is 'Joy Is My Justice' at https://tanmeetsethimd.substack.com

Gratitude Evelyn for this generosity and buoying of the work of being human 💕

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Holly Starley's avatar

What a perfect name for your stack, Tanmeet. :)

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Tanmeet Sethi, MD's avatar

Thanks Holly! So good to see you in so many beautiful communities. ❤️

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Night Shift Writing's avatar

Hi! I'm Deb, from Night Shift Crafting, my Substack is of the same name. Thank you for this scholarship opportunity. For me, what writing is, is a chance at communication and connection, as well as a medium of exploration, along with the exchange of thoughts, ideas and ideals.

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Kel E Fox's avatar

I tell myself writing is my way to make sense of the chaos that is, well, me, but honestly it might be the other way around. Was I always this mad?

Regardless, writing is some of the best fun one can have since the real world largely refuses to play along with my fantasies of magicians and flying horses and eating unlimited chocolate without consequence (rude). https://kelefox.substack.com/

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Mia Harlan's avatar

Was I always this mad? A question I ask myself daily 🤣

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Kel E Fox's avatar

Right?! 🤣

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Ariane Goodwin's avatar

As a certified Vortex wizard, I say... let those horses fly their lil' ole' hearts out!

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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

Love this

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Kel E Fox's avatar

Thank you! ♥

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Karis Rogerson's avatar

Writing means everything to me because it's the way I've managed to connect to the world even when I felt alone. Writing is how I share my heart with others and how I experience joy, love, connection, humanity. And writing is the buoy that has saved me in the darkest ocean waters when the waves felt too tall and too unwieldy, and I feared drowning.

My substack is From the Mind of Karis

https://karisrogerson.substack.com/

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Elyse Robi's avatar

For me, writing means freeing my souls and letting go; shortening the duration of suffering of other non-conventional brains, as I share about my experience with late-diagnosed neurodivergence, chronic illness and chronic pain, medical gaslighting, self-advocacy and self-compassion.

I aim to help others come to a place of peace and understanding way more quickly than I have, so we can all enjoy our time here and make the world a better place.

My Substack : elyserobi.substack.com

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Lisa Jensen's avatar

I love this! I mostly focus on my poetry stack now (100 Poems), but I first started writing on Susbtack four-ish years ago to connect with other people navigating long Covid and to offer support. Since then, I've met so many other writers here living with chronic pain or illness!

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