How to be a Featured Substack (Updated 2025)

So many writers want to be featured by Substack.

It can bring thousands of new subscribers. Being featured signals you're producing authentic work, not AI content. It puts you in excellent company with other quality creators.

Today, we're talking about the one thing that actually matters for Substack success—and it's not posting more, growing faster, or any of the surface-level tactics everyone's obsessing over.

I take you inside how Substack decides who to feature.

Go to www.substackwritersatwork.com and get the workflow I created to help you raise the quality of your posts to featured-Substack level.

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