Open Secrets Magazine
Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Rob Hart, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Dhana Musil, Alexandra Dane, Patti M Hall, Casey Mulligan Walsh, Laura LeBleu, Jason Prokowiew, Lara Starr, Dana DuBois, Blair Glaser, Athena Dixon, Katie Carter King, Kari Burroughs Kraakevik, Emily Rapp Black, Caroline Newton, Blake Turck, KC Courtland, Jill Rovitzky BlackOpen Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep "secret." Contact Editor Rachel Kramer Bussel at opensecretsmag at gmail.com
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Open Secrets is a lit mag and community for memorable, revealing personal essays about all the subjects we're taught to keep “secret.”
Writer on motherhood, culture, books, personal finance, belonging and belongings. Editor of Open Secrets Magazine and host of podcast Finders and Keepers. https://rachelkramerbussel.com
Author of ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS. Also: THE WAREHOUSE, THE PARADOX HOTEL, and co-writer of the comic book BLOOD OATH with Alex Segura. Upcoming: the novels DARK SPACE with Segura, and DETOUR with showrunner of TV's MANIFEST, Jeff Rake.
An African feminist seeking sexual freedom.
Writer. Seeker. Collector of animals
Late-blooming writer & memoirist, Mom, Seattle devoted, bird at heart.
writer. book coach. publishing strategist. Frankenstein fan
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.
Creator and founding editor of Geezer, the only print magazine just for Gen X.
Author of War Boys, a braided memoir about my Russian father’s adoption by Nazis during World War II and the trauma he carried into parenthood. Recently writing about life in my fat Queer body.
Publishing publicist, former radio producer, sometime cookbook author, low-key activist, and semi-pro thrift shopper. Storytelling is my superpower, and I only use it for good!
Memoirist & cultural essayist. GenX word nerd. I write out loud. Co-host & booker: The Daily Whatever Show. Fine feminist. Loves storytelling, karaoke, ectomorphs, her two teens, and Oxford commas. Loathes the RHCP.
Writer and leadership consultant at The HI (Human Intelligence) Stack. Author THIS INCREDIBLE LONGING, Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience (Heliotrope). Undercover sorceress. More at www.blairglaser.com
Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction Editor at Split/Lip Press. Music Lover. Philly via Ohio.
Writing about history and memory in the American South
Composer by training, entrepreneur by accident, writer by destiny. I tell true stories (and a few that should be) from my yellow chair.
Writer, professor, editor, book wizard, tiny business owner. I write sad books but I’m really funny. @circeconsulting @craftschool www.craft-school.net
Writing about beauty, power, belonging, and care in unstable systems to share what I've learned and help you feel less alone.
I live in California, where I work as a substitute teacher and spend the rest of my time lost in stories ... sometimes the ones I read, sometimes the ones I write.
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