Open Secrets Magazine
Open Secrets Magazine, Emma Straub, Hanne Blank Boyd, Jessica Gentile, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Lu Chekowsky, Sammi LaBue, Joselin Linder, Kari Ferrell, Laura LeBleu, John DeVore, Jess H. Gutierrez, Deborah Copperud-Read MN Books, Edgar Gomez, Hailey Oppenlander, Athena Dixon, Debi Lewis, Suzi Banks Baum, Nick Parish, Ain Khan, Kelley Korbin, Friendly Neighborhood Tranpa, Ellen Moore, Ann LarsonOpen 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.”
Emma Straub is the New York Times-bestselling author of seven books for adults and four books for children. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
You want to write a book? I’m your huckleberry. Editor, book coach, writer, provider of Reasons Not To Quit.
Infinite Jess is a valiant if misguided attempt to make sense of the infinite abyss of ~content~ we're bombarded with every day in the increasingly nonsensical world we live in by a writer and librarian who's seen, read, and heard it all.
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
Emmy award winning advertising writer and former advertising creative director. Author of: "DON'T BUY WHAT I'M SELLING: ON BREAKING UP WITH ADVERTISING AND FINALLY LEARNING TO LOVE MY WHOLE, FAT SELF" (Little, Brown).
Your personal, prompt-crazy writing coach addicted to getting people writing since establishing NYC's Fledgling Writing Workshops in 2016. She wants to write with you!
I have so many important to things to say...
Kari is a producer, writer, speaker, & activist. Her work is centered around prison reform/mental health/human rights/the pop culture zeitgeist. She enjoys crosswords, being stoned, & writing about herself in the third person. www.madewithoutwax.com
Creator and founding editor of Geezer, the ONLY print magazine by, for, and about Gen X.
I'm a writer living in New York City. Hello! My memoir, 'Theatre Kids', is available for purchase wherever books are sold.
Writer represented by Claire Draper of AU Lit Mgmt. A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking) and ADULTING FOR AMATEURS with Tiny Rep Books out now!!
Minneapolis writer https://linktr.ee/deborahcopperud + podcaster readminnesotabooks.com
Author of Alligator Tears (Crown, '25) and High-Risk Homosexual (Soft Skull Press, '22). \ud83d\ude1c
Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction Editor at Split/Lip Press. Music Lover. Philly via Ohio.
Debi Lewis has written for The New York Times, Huffington Post, Bon Appetit, Wired, and more. Her memoir was published in 2022, and she returns now to her roots as a fiction writer, focusing on stories of personal agency.
Suzi Banks Baum is a protector of imagination, a nurturer of attention. Entirely obsessed with marigolds, Banks Baum’s interdisciplinary work exists at the crossroads of literary and visual art. More at suzibanksbaum.com.
Make fly fishing a bigger part of your life. http://www.currentflowstate.com
Poet, writer and traveler through this temporary realm, just like you. I write about the bird-spirit that continues to shine in the face of loss.
A place to speak up outside of restrictions
Ellen Ranson Moore is a recovering executive and Executive Leadership Coach. She’s at work on a memoir and writes about Leadership in the Hustle, Grief, Parenting, Mental Health and Hope - always Hope. @EllenRMoore, MooreCreativeStrategies.com
Author of Cleanup on Aisle Five: Essential Work, Poverty Wages, and the View from Behind the Supermarket Register https://annlarsonwrites.com/
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