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

Tawnya Gibson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a variety of publications. Her Substack newsletter, Off The Record, explores how we each have a different story to be told stemming from one single monthly photo prompt.

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

Essayist/ Writing Professor at Antioch University. Publications; HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Manifest Station and more. Currently working on her memoir, I'll Show You.

Mom & Grandma | Sipper of coffee, writer of musings, reader of books, reluctant performer, and shopper of groceries.

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

Sonya Matejko adores writing words and helping people find them(selves). As a freelance writer, part-time poet, and full-time wellness enthusiast, Sonya uses words to make people feel seen and heard. (And always with the Oxford comma.)

hot, trans, doesn’t know how to use substack. author of “sorry i keep crying during sex” \ud83d\udc95

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Lisa is a writer, former Army officer, and retired human resources leader. Her essays explore work, identity, and the small, often overlooked moments when discernment and care quietly shape a life.

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

Brittany Miles writes fiction and creative nonfiction exploring family, motherhood, and mental health. Her work appears in Newsweek, Business Insider, The Seattle Times, Open Secrets, Blood + Honey, MUTHA, and is forthcoming in Tir Literary Magazine.

Author of "When Longing Becomes Your Lover" | Bylines in NYT, WaPo, NPR, NatGeo, Vogue TEDx

Amy L Cornell lives in Bloomington Indiana and loves reading and writing about objects.

I work in the charity sector and write small personal essays on queerness, disability, introversion, with cameos from dead composers and 90s icons. Think Beethoven and Baby Spice. Mozart and Mel C....

Words in The New York Times, HuffPost, TIME, The Washington Post, Outside, and elsewhere. All views my own.

Amy Gallo Ryan is a Brooklyn-based writer and former Condé Nast magazine editor whose personal essays have appeared in Vogue, Lit Hub and Hippocampus. Her infertility memoir, You May Feel a Bit of Pressure, was released last fall.