Carmen Maria Machado
@carmenmariamachado · Cup of Stars · Substack profile · Literature
Carmen Maria Machado has 37,623 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. 56 publications recommend them, 3 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 9.
Last read Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Followers are not email subscribers. Substack lists only the newest 50 recommendations for each publication, so a recommender count of 50 or more is a floor. History starts Oct 31, 2026; Substack publishes nothing earlier.
- Followers
- 37,623
- read Oct 31
- Last 7 days
- first number on Nov 7
- Last 30 days
- first number on Nov 30
- Subscribers
- 22K+
- rounded by Substack
- Paid subscribers
- none shown
- Recommended by
- 56
- +3 in 30 days
- Recommends
- 9
- Bestsellers rank
- not on a board
Followers by day
Tracking since Oct 31, 2026. This is the first reading. Substack doesn't publish past follower counts, so history starts the day I first read a writer and grows by one reading every 3 days (daily if it's on your watchlist). The 7-day change appears on Nov 7, the 30-day change on Nov 30. Recommendation dates below go further back: they're Substack's own.
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| Date | Followers | Change | Subscribers | Paid band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2026 | 37,623 | 22K+ |
Leaderboard positions
Not on a category leaderboard right now
Substack's boards list the top 100 per category, by paid subscribers (Bestsellers) and by recent paid growth (Rising). I read all 66 of them once a day, so a new entry shows up within a day.
Recommendations
56 publications recommend Carmen Maria Machado; 2 started in the last 30 days. Carmen Maria Machado recommends 9, and 2 of those recommend back. Lists read Oct 31.
When the recommendations started
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| Month | Started |
|---|---|
| 2022-07 | 1 |
| 2023-04 | 1 |
| 2023-06 | 1 |
| 2023-07 | 1 |
| 2023-10 | 1 |
| 2024-05 | 1 |
| 2025-04 | 2 |
| 2025-05 | 4 |
| 2025-06 | 3 |
| 2025-07 | 6 |
| 2025-08 | 2 |
| 2025-09 | 2 |
| 2025-10 | 4 |
| 2025-11 | 2 |
| 2025-12 | 3 |
| 2026-01 | 6 |
| 2026-02 | 1 |
| 2026-03 | 1 |
| 2026-04 | 2 |
| 2026-05 | 3 |
| 2026-06 | 3 |
| 2026-07 | 1 |
| 2026-08 | 2 |
| 2026-10 | 3 |
Recommended by
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- Blue Moon Blogstarted Jun 13, 2026
- Soph Metcalfstarted May 30, 2026
- The Other Parentstarted May 9, 2026
- rosemary & lavenderstarted May 5, 2026
- Anna's Substackstarted Apr 16, 2026
- theatre chavstarted Apr 15, 2026
- Gold in Fumesstarted Mar 23, 2026
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- Jaz's Substackstarted Jan 28, 2026
- Jo's Substackstarted Jan 27, 2026
All 56
- Louis Burrowsstarted Jan 14, 2026
- chiarapi's Substackstarted Jan 13, 2026
- The Thought Vaultstarted Jan 13, 2026
- Oriana's Substackstarted Jan 12, 2026
- Tourist Seasonstarted Dec 18, 2025
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- generisches femininumstarted Dec 12, 2025
- Sarah's Substackstarted Nov 29, 2025
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- Mythologies's Substackstarted Oct 2025
- Lauren's Substackstarted Oct 2025
- Genevieve's Substackstarted Oct 2025
- Sex or Something Like Itstarted Oct 2025
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- RUNNRstarted Aug 2025
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- (just) a girl with opinionsstarted Jul 2025
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- of the absurdstarted Jul 2025
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- José Henrique Bortolucistarted Jun 2025
- booktown chroniclesstarted May 2025
- Matthew’s Substackstarted May 2025
- r0ttengodstarted May 2025
- farfalle liberestarted May 2025
- The Sewing Circle started Apr 2025
- Erica’s Substackstarted Apr 2025
Recommends
- Roxane Gay308k followers · started Jul 2022 · mutual
- Julia Turshen67k followers · started Mar 2023 · mutual
Anna Sproul-Latimer24k followers · started Mar 2023- sweater weatherstarted Mar 2023
- DAVIDstarted Mar 2023
- Butt Newsstarted Mar 2023
- Confirm My Choicesstarted Feb 2023
- The B+ Squadstarted Sep 2022
- The Chatnerstarted Jul 2022
Substack lists the 50 newest recommenders of each publication. I add every recommendation found in the full lists of the 6,392 publications I read, so writers with many recommenders may still be missing a few small ones. "Started" is Substack's date.
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- 3 shared
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