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The Substack presence of NOON.org.uk, the UK's premier network for women in midlife: Listen to the weekly newsletter as audio, get the Queenager Podcast and more!

Fellow pro-ageing activist Eleanor Mills has built up a community of Queenagers, that share Advantages of Age ethos that life can and should continue to be fulfilling as we grow older.

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Embracing Ageing

By Jane Duncan Rogers

Ageing is happening, and there is no knight in shining armour! Subscribe for insight, inspiration, and irreverence.

THE KUREISHI CHRONICLES

By Hanif Kureishi

Dispatches from my hospital bed. Writing on writing; sex and drugs and music, TV shows and writers I admire, my memories, among other matters.

Help Me! Newsletter

By Marianne Power

Life. Love. Self-help.

Sex Advice for Seniors

By Suzanne

Honest, stigma-free sex advice for people who refuse to let age define their desires. New subscribers receive a FREE PDF of my '10 Most Overlooked Secrets to Better Sex After 50'

No nonsense podcast and weekly blog (usually of the erotic variety) about navigating sex and dating in later-life from Advantages of Age co-founder, Suzanne Noble.

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David Whyte

Poems, essays and commentaries as well as insights from my Three Sundays Series.

Before and After the Book Deal

By Courtney Maum

Real talk about the writing + publishing industry from an author who doesn’t want you to feel confused, bewildered, or alone. Plus: craft tips, reading recommendations, writing support + solidarity (unless you are a jerk to people in the comments).

Clover Stroud: On The Way Life Feels

By Clover Stroud on The Way Life Feels

I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity

Oldster Magazine

By Sari Botton

Exploring what it means to travel through time in a human body, at every phase of life.

seventysomething

By Susie Kaufman

memory, aging in amazement, the inner life

Let's Talk About Writing

By Suzy Vitello

Writing tips from a book coach: words, witchery, and occasional bouts of wisdom.

thespirited70something

By Rose Rouse

the spirited70something is a place where I can go a bit wilder and multi-disciplinary around being in my 70s, writing poems, being in a Living Apart Together relationship between London and North Wales, a rebel flowering, the shadows.

Advantages of Age co-founder Rose musing on ageing, as well as poetry, all told in her spirited fashion!

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ElderSpirit

By felice rhiannon

All things conscious ageing

What Now? with Lindsay Johnstone

A global top 100 life writing publication plus the host of acclaimed memoir and expressive writing group programmes

SES/SUMS IT UP with Kevin Sessums

By Kevin Sessums

Conversation/Culture/Current Affairs

NYT Bestselling author, pilgrim and culture vulture Kevin Sessums shares his daily life - whether it's striking up a conversation with a barista to a backstage encounter with a celebrity ballerina. Every conversation, no matter how big or small, has significance reminding us that 'everything connects.'

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RunesnRoses

By Serena

Featured articles, poems and stories that come from the land, from my ancestors, your ancestors, my work as a storyteller, psychopomp, rune reader and death doula. Each week features a different topic for my letter.

Tits to the Wind - Crone Club e-magazine

By Justine Gaubert

Our monthly contribution to creating a kick-ass crone identity and positive roadmap for female ageing and menopause, one messy story at a time. Curated by Crone Club founder, Crone-in-Training Juzza, from Sheffield UK, or sometimes from her fella's van.

Winner of an Advantages of Age Award for best social club and an organisation that is very much aligned to our own mission to challenge the media narrative around ageing with style, attitude and plenty of creativity.

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Older Not Over

A newsletter and community for those who thought it was too late to change the course of their lives. Just because you're older doesn’t mean it’s over.

Dispatches From The Shed

By Lyn Slater

Essays, Ideas, "Butterfly Thoughts", Vignettes, Experiments and more by Lyn Slater

Penny Kiley's music writing

By Penny Kiley's Music Writing

A music journalist’s archive of post-punk Liverpool.

Karen Sommerville

It’s about identity, visibility, creativity, love, and the quiet work of becoming yourself again.

[B]OLD AGE with Debbie Weil

In my best-selling newsletter, I share the bittersweetness of old age, from the blessings to the bullshit. I write about the strange contradiction of growing old: it’s wonderful… and it also sucks.

FVCK PARKINSON'S

By From Nick Calder: FVCK PARKINSON'S episodes

In the innocence of 2020 I started END OF THE LINE: a BIG IDEA mashng tales of end of line Tube stations, notes on Parkinson's and of London in 1960's...sex/clothes/rock. But by chilly jaded April 2026 all my lights have gone out so...FVCK PARKINSON'S .

Nick writes about his ongoing challenges dealing with Parkinson's Disease with wit, pathos and grit. His lust for life shines through.

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