Days Like This

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!

Writer in Detroit. Author of I Can’t Remember if I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy. New manuscript ready for querying. Illness in the House recounts my marriage, bookended by 3 years of home renovations and 3 years of terminal cancer.

Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”

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.

Writer of 5 books including Bitter, Sweet: How to Heal Yourself When Your Family Is Broken. TEDx speaking coach. Weekly notes from my happy/sad life, along with media & book recommendations.

Former print magazine editor-in-chief and dating expert. NYU Journalism Instructor. Freelance Writing Direct Podcast. TEDx Speaker. Author of WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED. Writing a narrative non-fiction book about the 90s and early aughts.

20-year book marketing expert helping authors build visibility, use Substack, and market books without the BS. Author of 8 books. 💫

Emma's journalism, essays, and poems have appeared in such publications as The Bend Magazine, Military Families Magazine, Arts and Letters Journal, Line of Advance, and Poets.org. Have You Landed?, her debut essay collection, is out now!

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.

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)

Essayist/ Writing Professor at Antioch University. Publications; HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Manifest Station and more. Currently working on her memoir, I'll Show You.

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.

CEO and co-founder of Fresh Starts Registry; credited by NY Mag with "destigmatizing divorce." Writer, podcaster, and author of Divorce Happens (Sheldon Press, 2027). Divorce is not a failure. It's a fresh start. Your big sister of divorce.

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).

Writer, writing instructor, plant killer.

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. Work in NYT, WashPo, NBC news, TODAY, HuffPost, among others.