What's On In November
Team Calendar
Hello lovely readers,
I hope you’re all keeping well as the colder weather and darker nights draw in for those of us in the northern hemisphere.
I’ve made a few tiny tweaks to the newsletter schedule for the coming months. Nothing major - I’ve just organised each month around a theme to bring a little more cohesion to our community output. Now that we’re coming up to three months in, I feel like we’re finding our groove and working out what works around here, so it only felt right to sharpen things up a bit.
The November Theme
Community building - how can we use Substack to build a solid group of colleagues who read and engage with our writing, Notes, and chat?
Another change will be these monthly Calendar invites. I know I find it helpful to know what’s coming up - we’re all busy people, right?! And for those of you not yet members of our community, they’ll be a great way to see whether this is a space you want to dive headlong into.
One thing I won’t put in the calendar is the weekly Directory additions. They come out each Friday like clockwork!
The November Calendar
Tuesday 5th - Members’ roundup post
Tuesday 12th - guest post with
exploring how we came to find our history nichesTuesday 19th - paid members’ chat discussing & problem-solving our Substack history writing challenges
Tuesday 26th - the second excerpt from
’s serialised novel, On The Road To Jericho (available in full here: )Thursday 28th - free subscriber chat sharpening up our Substack elevator pitch
Not yet a member?
Free subscribers receive all newsletters, but members also unlock:
✅ Exclusive monthly chat threads to work through your own history writing projects, forming a supportive community to help with problems as well as celebrate successes
✅ Feature links to your work in a monthly roundup newsletter to all subscribers (4000+ monthly views and close to 1000 readers)
✅ Spotlight your newsletter in our weekly Directory additions newsletter
✅ Option to start your own chat thread to ask other subscribers’ advice, share your work, or highlight anything of interest in the world of history.
❌ A 60-minute 1:1 coaching session on history/historical fiction writing, with a year-long email followup and access to DMs - this is exclusively for members of our Writer Coaching cohort (find out more at the upgrade link below).