A new independent print magazine for women in midlife · Coming soon · join the ‘riff
For women in the middle of everything.
A magazine you’ll make time for.
Not your mother's midlife.
We’re on Substack taking you behind-the-scenes as we build something cooler than LA Gear high-tops with double laces. Want in?
Why Midriff
This chapter deserves better coverage.
When midlife women are made invisible, the stories don’t vanish. They go underground.
Midriff is a biannual print magazine exploring the creative, intellectual, and embodied lives of women in midlife and beyond. We expand the map of midlife, tracing the surprising ways this chapter unfolds and giving our readers both the language and the landmarks to navigate together.
We’re here to dig those stories up, polish them, and put them back in print.
The ritual
Put down your phone. Find presence. Midriff is something you hold onto and dive into. Plus, she looks great stacked on your coffee table. Tactile pleasure. No algorithm. Thank goodness.
The read
Stories, art, poetry that take this part of life seriously and humorously. The complexity, the reinvention, the questions that don’t have tidy answers. We’re in it with you.
The ‘riff
Friendship. Community. Gatherings. Midriff is a magazine and a movement. Let’s get together (yeah yeah yeah) online and in-person to make the most of this moment in time.
Writers & Creators
Get published
Midriff is looking for essays, personal narratives, cultural criticism, poetry, photography and visual art. Pitch us something specific or add your info to our list for possible story assignments.
We pay contributors. Always.
Issue No. 1 theme: Touch.
Brands & kindred spirits
Partner with us
We are ready to build relationships with brands who understand and care about our reader: her taste, her intellect, and her influence.
If your values align with ours (less supplements and anti-aging, more wearable talismans and dopamine boosts), and you believe in the power of women in midlife, send us a note.
Founder’s Note:
I’ve spent my career building platforms and communities for people who value generosity over gatekeeping.
Now I’m doing it for us.
Midriff is for women in the middle of everything — the ones whose stories aren’t finished, the ones the overculture has started to look past, which is also, if you’ve noticed, right around when things get interesting.
Midlife isn’t a dirty word. It’s not a problem to solve. And despite an $18 billion industry suddenly very interested in our hormones and protein intake, it’s not only about menopause or muscle mass. It’s one of the most transformative passages we get, and it deserves media that treats it that way.
You’ll put down each issue feeling more yourself than when you picked it up. Not because we told you what to do — because you spent time in a world where we live this chapter out loud.
Here’s to you — and the dance moves you still remember from backyard performances to I Think We’re Alone Now.
Come on over,
– Crosby Noricks, Founder & Editor | Linkedin
Still cool. Still here. Still us.
Help us build this thing. Reach out anytime →
Midriff
@midriffmag
hello@midriffmag.com
© 2026 Front of House Media, LLC