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The Lopsided Mental Load in Relationships
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When I got divorced, I was a single mom of two young children in elementary school. Without a partner to share the invisible labor of household chores — laundry, groceries, cooking, do...
B.K. Jackson on Relative Strangers and Editing an Anthology
Thank you , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with ! We chatted about editing the anthology Relative Strangers, how this beautiful book came to be, helping others feel less alone, and so much more.
Enjoy the replay and add...
Estelle Erasmus on Her Start in Magazines and How She Can Help Get Your Writing Noticed
Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in for our live chat on Monday! Huge thanks to the always wise Estelle Erasmus for an awesome conversation. We chatted about how she got her start in print magazines, her freelance writing tips, her p...
Rachel Kramer Bussel on Personal Essays, Podcasting, and Pitching Open Secrets
Huge thanks to for a great conversation about what personal essays mean to her, our attachment to our possessions, how to pitch , and so much more. And apparently my Internet decided it was a good time to be wonky so my apologies for any t...
When a Memoirist Becomes a Novelist
If someone had asked me 20 years ago what genre my first book would be, I wouldn’t have hesitated: fiction.
In fact, 20 years ago I was writing fiction. After having my first child, my brain was in baby mode and most of the books I was rea...
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Heather Sweeney's work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, HuffPost, Business Insider, and elsewhere. Her military divorce memoir CAMOUFLAGE: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage is out now!
Former print magazine editor-in-chief. NYU Writing Professor. Freelance Writing Direct Podcast. TEDx Speaker. WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED.
Casey Mulligan Walsh's work has appeared in The NY Times, HuffPost, Split Lip, WebMD, Modern Loss, and elsewhere. Her memoir, The Full Catastrophe (Motina Books), released in February 2025. Find Casey at www.caseymulliganwalsh.com.
Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”
Author of THE BLUE DRESS, a novel based on her childhood as an Iranian immigrant w/body image & mother-daughter relationship struggles, published March 24, 2026, from Macmillan's FSG.
Couples therapist for nearly fifteen years. Author of The Cost of Quiet (Penguin Random House). Now also enjoying podcasting, speaking, and doing radio and TV. I write about relationships, communication, and going after what you want in life.
Essayist/ Writing Professor at Antioch University. Publications; HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Manifest Station and more. Currently working on her memoir, I'll Show You.
Jacque Gorelick is an essayist who writes about family, motherhood, health, and estrangement. Her debut memoir, Map of a Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Finding the Way Home, is forthcoming with Vine Leaves Press (February 2026).
A writer/editor/book coach with late-discovery ADHD and a fascination with the intersection of ADHD and creativity. Editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship (ELJ Editions 2026)
I'm the author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women. I am also a therapist, a mom and a step mom. I'm passionate about reducing the shame and stigma of divorce.
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