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.”

📖 debut memoir Girl Gone Wild out now! ✍️ writer NYT, Amazon, Netflix, Cosmo, The Cut 🎙️podcaster Private Parts Unknown, The Bleeders, Podcast Bestie

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!!

I write about addiction, eating disorders, harm reduction, deconstruction, and other fun stuff. You may know me from one of my podcasts. One of these days I’ll finish my memoir.

poet. author. comedic storyteller. lover of soul music and delicious carbohydrates.

Writer and editor of the upcoming anthology Eat Me: Essays, Poetry, & Art on Eating Disorders From Midlife Women, Third Rail Press, Spring 2028 | proud mother | nonprofit leader | local co-producer of The Menopause Monologues | activist

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.

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 & Editor | NO CONTACT: WRITERS ON ESTRANGEMENT (Catapult, 2026) | Developmental editing & manuscript critique | Author interviews, profiles, & book reviews | PNW

hot, trans, doesn’t know how to use substack. author of “sorry i keep crying during sex” 💕

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

I'm a memoirist who lives in the SF Bay Area. I started writing creatively when I turned fifty and faced (for me) the dreaded empty nest. I love reading about the craft of writing and learning from different sources.

I write Geek Out: a newsletter where I share personal essays, criticism, and fiction 💜🪐🦄 🧛🏻

ena ganguly's work focuses on collective memory, grief, surveillance, and sensuality and has been featured in USA Today, Palette Poetry, and BBC, amongst others. Please visit her website at enaganguly.com and follow her on social media at enaganguly.

Personal essays about connecting with your loved ones after they've passed and other spiritual things. Reiki Practitioner | Writer | Dog Foster | Human Ecologist

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An overthinker with a love for words

Elizabeth Austin is a writer and solo cancer mom. Her work has been published with The New York Times, Time, Harper's Bazaar, Electric Lit, Narratively, McSweeney's, and others. Find out more at writingelizabeth.com and on Instagram @writingelizabeth

Writer, editor, book critic & author of the memoir Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die

Writer of Living Room 🛋 — a newsletter about coming out later in life while raising kids in LA. 🏳️‍🌈

Freelance editor & writer, serial mover, mom.

I'm a journalist, thriller and nonfiction author, and narrative podcaster. Subscribe for roughly once-a-month updates on my writing journey, creativity inspo, and other things I find fascinating.

Writer. Working on my debut novel, "Virago." I believe nothing matters (so I get to choose what does) and that taco dip is a health food. Short stories, essays, and insight wrapped in a metaphor, like a pig in a blanket or a piñata.