Open Secrets Magazine

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. https://rachelkramerbussel.com

2025 TEDx Speaker. NYU Writing Professor. Freelance Writing Direct Podcast. NYU prof. WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED @NewWorldLibrary

Judith Hannah Weiss began writing at Time Magazine and has freelanced for 35 years. She has been honored by nominations for both The Pushcart Prize and The Best American Essay. Her posts take less than 2 minutes to read and include her own art.

RN, nonbinary trauma-informed comedian, writer, and storyteller so common in modern Brooklyn.

Essayist and author in Chicago. Very very into group therapy.

Amanda is a writer working on a memoir about her long trek through grief, love, and nature as she hiked the 46 Adirondack High Peaks. She has been published in Newsweek, Slate, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, The KeepThings, and Anti-Heroin Chic.

I'm a writer living in New York City. Hello! My memoir, 'Theatre Kids', is available at bookstores and online.

I write about addiction, eating disorders, harm reduction, and other fun stuff. You may know me from Pickles and Vodka: a Mental Health Podcast. My friends call me Chris.

Human. Mother. Wife. Former English teacher. Writer. My words are here and in other places on the Internet.

Chilean writer, nowadays living everywhere and nowhere. Fiction and short stories in the outside world, personal essays in here. Romcom obsessed, pop culture fan and mug lover.

Author of The Loneliness Files and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Nonfiction/Hybrid Editor at Split/Lip Press. Music Lover. Philly via Ohio.

I’m a dreamer/silly person & mom based in southern NJ. I write about grief, being fat, parenting, millennial nostalgia, and taking up space. I think I’m funny. [email protected]

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Michelle Gurule is a writer and educator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her creative work explores the complexities of sexuality, class and power.

Korean American mental health therapist. Survivor and healer of Complex PTSD. Loves food, naps, and my pup's cuddles.

An aspiring writer with an interesting, but boring life. Complex, yet simple- I'm an open book as long as you read the language.

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freelance writer ♡ making videos and pieces about the girls, gays, and theys in nerdy spaces + their impact on it. find me literally anywhere else but here, I just like to read<3

Wendy Dodek is a writer and educator who grew up in Philadelphia. Currently living in Massachusetts, her nonfiction and poetry have appeared in Raven’s Perch, Manifest Station, Wry Times, Long Story Short and Topical Poetry.

Karen G. Berry lives just outside Portland, Oregon with her husband and too many houseplants. Learn more about her poetry, essays, and fiction at her blog, I Am Not A Pie.