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The Shit About Writing Team has 109,532 followers on Substack as of Oct 31, 2026. On the latest board read, Oct 31, 2026, they were #3 on Substack's Fiction Bestsellers board. 58 publications recommend them, 26 of them new in the last 30 days, and they recommend 20.

Followers read · Boards read

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
109,532
read Oct 31
Last 7 days
first number on Nov 7
Last 30 days
first number on Nov 30
Subscribers
89K+
rounded by Substack
Paid subscribers
Thousands
bestseller badge 1,000+
Recommended by
58
+26 in 30 days
Recommends
20
Bestsellers rank
#3
Fiction

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.

106k108k110k112k Oct 31Nov 2Nov 4Nov 6Nov 8Nov 10Nov 12 One reading a day from here 109,532
106k108k110k112k Oct 31Nov 4Nov 8 One reading a day from here 109,532
One reading a day, the last of the day. Marked: leaderboard steps (into the top 25, top 10, or #1). Followers are people who follow The Shit About Writing Team on Substack; they aren't email subscribers.
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DateFollowersChangeSubscribersPaid band
Oct 31, 2026109,53289K+Thousands

Leaderboard positions

BoardRank nowBest on recordReads on it
Fiction Bestsellers#3#34 of 4
Fiction Rising#3#34 of 4

Rank on each read

Rank on each read of each board. Each cell is the leaderboard rank; empty means not in the top 100.
WriterOct 3107:00Oct 3113:00Oct 3119:47Nov 621:50Move
Fiction Bestsellers33330
Fiction Rising35530

I read every board once a day.

Recommendations

58 publications recommend The Shit About Writing Team; 26 started in the last 30 days. The Shit About Writing Team recommends 20. Lists read Oct 31.

The 9 largest publications on each side, by followers. Bigger dot, more followers. Orange: started in the last 30 days. Gray dots: publications I don't track, so no follower count.

When the recommendations started

Jun 24SepDecMarJunSepDecMarJunSep
Live recommendations by the month each began, using Substack's own start date. Removed ones aren't listed by Substack, so they don't appear. Substack shows only the 50 newest recommenders, so before Aug 2026 (outlined) I see only those from the 6,392 publications whose full lists I read.
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Recommendations started per month
MonthStarted
2024-061
2025-041
2025-111
2026-012
2026-031
2026-061
2026-071
2026-083
2026-0913
2026-1034

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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.

Who recommends writers like this one

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