Meg has a Substack Musings with Meg where she talks about books, writing and muses about life. Substack is a subscription-based newsletter publishing platform for independent writers, journalists and content creators. Meg uses Substack as a way to engage with readers a little more closely.
There are six sections to her newsletters:
- Musings – musings about life as a writer and mum
- Five things – a short newsletter with five things that have caught Meg’s eye
- Postcards from Europe – news posts from Meg’s time travelling through Europe in June and July 2025
- Book Chat – short posts about books Meg has been reading
- Writing Opportunities, Competitions and Prompts – these posts are for paid subscribers only
- Mindset Insights – these posts are for paid subscribers only
Latest Musings with Meg Substack posts
- Five things that brought me joy this week: Fleeting light | A bowl of mandarin goodness | Tartan progress | Making for others | Skin checks
- Author Samantha WL Lee on writing before sunrise, following curiosity into fiction and why simply turning up is often the difference between dreaming about a book and finishing one.
- Five things that brought me joy this week: Community | Unknotting story problems | Orange baubles | When a bunch of flowers is more than just a bunch of flowers | Babies
- Books read this month: Mother Mary Comes to Me | I am Nannertgarrook | Every Wild Soul | The Children’s Bach | She Has My Heart | Iluka | Famesick | Circle of Wonders
- Perth CFO and debut novelist on writing retreats, trusting creative momentum, and why she believes she never had writer’s block.
- Five things that brought me joy this week: A word for responsibility to care for the natural world | A day of listening to stories and knitting | Devonshire tea | Tip shop joy | Wool & sheep show
- Understanding what envy is really trying to tell you and strategies to help you step out of jealousy
- Auckland debut novelist on longhand by amber lamplight, Scrivener and Excel in the same process, and what Clarissa has to do with a psychological thriller set in an architecture firm.
- Five things that brought me joy this week: Human movement | Time with friends | Bulbs blooming | Trees growing back | Bendigo
- Melbourne novelist Trish Bolton on gardening as painting, procrastination as fear, and why the big ideas never happen in front of the screen.
- A curated monthly roundup of competitions, grants, residencies, submissions and opportunities for writers, artists and illustrators.
- Books read this month: Stasiland | Melaleuca | The Visitor
- Five things that brought me joy this week: This week’s birds on my walk| Time in the sun | Exercising my brain with knitting | Card making | Writerly things
- Northern Beaches debut memoirist Lorena Otes on writing about her 13 rounds of IVF, why she wrote 100 words a day for a year, and what a ballroom dancing novel has to do with getting unstuck
- Five things that brought me joy this week: Handwriting is essential for our brains | Letter writing, Ann Patchett & Virginia Evans | Babakiueria | A grey butcherbird | 23 years of joy
- A 60-minute interactive online masterclass for writers whose writing has gotten heavier than it used to be, and who are ready to bring some of the joy, and the silliness, back
- American-in-Sydney debut memoirist on writing Imogen in Waiting by hand across four notebooks, protecting early fiction from feedback, and why home is where the books are
- How to take back the power and compare fairly
- Five things that brought me joy this week: A card from a friend | Welcoming writers to my retreat | Fog rolling in | Socks off the needles | Sunset
- Gold Coast DV specialist and debut memoirist Melissa Sharman on writing for no audience, quarter of a million words on the cutting floor, and why you have to write crap first.