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Hear me in NYC on May 3 interviewing the amazing Jane Pratt at the storytelling summit I’m organizing, Open Secrets Magazine Live. 30+ memoir & essay writers & editors from HuffPost Personal, Narratively, HarperCollins, & Random House & more! Agenda/tickets: eventbrite.com/e/open-secrets…

"What I encourage you to do is follow your bliss. Find the art that will take you out of the confines of your present moment but don’t get mired down in categories." (via Literary Hub) buff.ly/40UfE5K

"Writing is a way of saying that you and the world have a chance." ~ Richard Hugo

**WRITERS WANTED** Call for unpublished 1,000-2,000 word personal essays about the impact of climate change and how climate affects our lives. Pays $50 and authors retain rights. May 31 deadline. Must be an Open Secrets Magazine free or paid subscriber. opensecretsmagazine.com/p/paying-call-…

We are a volunteer effort, and see our mission as helping writers at every stage & building community in what can be a very lonely enterprise. How can you help? Wish us a happy birthday. Tell your friends. Contribute if possible. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/the…

I was honored to be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, Freelance Writing Direct hosted by Estelle Erasmus. We discussed writing & editing personal essays & my work as editor of Open Secrets Magazine & May 3 NYC storytelling summit Open Secrets Live! estelleserasmus.com/128-crafting-c…

Thank you to Open Secrets Magazine for publishing my story of online gaming addiction opensecretsmagazine.com/p/online-gamin….

“We never used to have a smoke season. I was raised in the Inland Northwest and I can think of only a handful of times…” Read “What It Feels Like to Live in ‘Satan’s Ashtray’ During Smoke Season” by Aaron M Brown in Open Secrets Magazine! #EarthDay opensecretsmagazine.com/p/smoke-season…

Missed our #EarthDay roundup yesterday? It’s not too late to read these works from Colorado Review, Epistemic Literary - Updates Only, The Hudson Review, Cincinnati Review, Tahoma Literary Review, The Fabulist Magazine, Adi Magazine, Epiphany Lit Journal, Open Secrets Magazine & more lit mags: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

We’ve released a few more tickets to our NYC personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live on Saturday, May 3! 40+ speakers, keynotes by Jane Pratt, Minda Honey, and Deesha Philyaw, editors from HuffPost, Narratively, HarperCollins & Random House! Tix: eventbrite.com/e/open-secrets…

See you May 3, NYC! Snag one of the last tickets to our personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live with Jane Pratt, Minda Honey, Deesha Philyaw, dozens of memoir authors, editors from Electric Lit, HuffPost, Narratively, HarperCollins & Random House! eventbrite.com/e/open-secrets…

For #MentalHealth Awareness Month, Open Secrets Magazine had a panel of published writers discussing how to write sensitively and ethically about it. They were Veena Dinavahi, @rachelkramerbussel on Threads and Bluesky, Dionne Ford, Arianna Rebolini, Hyeseung Song, & John DeVore. Read my recap: thegameofnerds.com/2025/05/09/a-p…

What’s it like to be a liberal Tesla owner in Brooklyn who bought the EV for environmental reasons in 2020 and opposes Elon Musk’s political positions? Read Sammi LaBue’s essay in our Climate section: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/brooklyn-tes…