Open Secrets Magazine
Open Secrets Magazine, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Rob Hart, Lu Chekowsky, Dhana Musil, Alexandra Dane, Sammi LaBue, Patti M Hall, Laura LeBleu, Jason Prokowiew, Jess H. Gutierrez, Amena Brown, Dana DuBois, Blair Glaser, Hailey Oppenlander, Athena Dixon, Debi Lewis, Rachel Meghan, Suzi Banks Baum, Ain Khan, Kari Burroughs Kraakevik, Blake TurckOpen 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.
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).
Writer. Seeker. Collector of animals
Late-blooming writer & memoirist, Mom, Seattle devoted, bird at heart.
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!
writer. book coach. publishing strategist. Frankenstein fan
Creator and founding editor of Geezer, the ONLY print magazine by, for, and about 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.
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!!
poet. author. comedic storyteller. lover of soul music and delicious carbohydrates.
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.
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.
mother, book critic, writer. they/she
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.
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.
Composer by training, entrepreneur by accident, writer by destiny. I tell true stories (and a few that should be) from my yellow chair.
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