Open Secrets Magazine
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Open Secrets is a magazine and community for essays on subjects we're taught to keep "secret.” Edited by @raquelita. [email protected]
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Joined March 2023
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: https://t.co/tzESEhQUSW
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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: https://t.co/tzESEhQUSW
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For #MentalHealth Awareness Month, @OpenSecretsMag had a panel of published writers discussing how to write sensitively and ethically about it. They were @veenawrites, @raquelita, @DionneFord, Arianna Rebolini, Hyeseung Song, & @JohnDeVore. Read my recap: https://t.co/G3CquET5YK
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Open Secrets Magazine on Substack held its first in-person event to unite writers, aspiring writers, editors and the like to network and learn from panelists on topics that included things like...
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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! https://t.co/FWAVJCeXpO
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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: https://t.co/FWAVJCepAg
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“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 @opensecretsmag! #EarthDay
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A history of my adaptation to the Pacific Northwest’s grim new weather caused by climate change
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Missed our #EarthDay roundup yesterday? It’s not too late to read these works from @Colorado_Review, @epistemiclit, @TheHudsonReview, @CincinnReview, @TahomaReview, @FabulistTales, @AdiMagazine, @epiphanylit, @opensecretsmag & more lit mags:
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This reading list of poems, essays, and stories published by CLMP member magazines includes writing about nature, the climate crisis, and more. Essays “From the Oldest Forest in Montana” by Rick...
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Thank you to @OpenSecretsMag for publishing my story of online gaming addiction https://t.co/wUPSLav0ou.
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I couldn’t stop playing word games with strangers, craving the dopamine hit winning provided
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I was honored to be a guest on one of my favorite podcasts, Freelance Writing Direct hosted by @EstelleSErasmus. We discussed writing & editing personal essays & my work as editor of @OpenSecretsMag & May 3 NYC storytelling summit Open Secrets Live! https://t.co/d1Omct0JMJ
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@NEDAstaff wanted to make sure you saw this powerful essay on make eating disorders and body dysmorphia:
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I was a college gym rat, hooked on binge eating, believing I needed to be muscular like my childhood hero, not suffering from stretch marks and stomachaches
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For #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek we published @JustinKolber34’s insightful essay “He-Man’s Ripped Muscles Fueled My Eating Disorder and Body Dysmorphia.” Check it out and share it with someone who may relate: https://t.co/hWp266DfhL
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**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. https://t.co/8hDQNmVXr4
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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.
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By Dinty W. Moore In keeping with our name, we will be brief: this morning marks the Brevity Blog’s 19th Birthday. (Our companion magazine and older sibling, Brevity, where we publish astonis…
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**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. https://t.co/8hDQNmVXr4
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"Writing is a way of saying that you and the world have a chance." ~ Richard Hugo
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Hear me in NYC on May 3 interviewing the amazing @JanePratt at the storytelling summit I’m organizing, @OpenSecretsMag Live. 30+ memoir & essay writers & editors from HuffPost Personal, Narratively, HarperCollins, & Random House & more! Agenda/tickets: https://t.co/7B9VxmRMdy
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"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 @lithub)
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Thanks to sponsor @Narratively for giving a 1-month comped Narratively subscription to Open Secrets Live attendees! And Narratively executive editor @jessesposato will be on our editors panel! Agenda and tix for our May 3 NYC personal storytelling summit: https://t.co/ZoqL8feBUT
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Thanks to our sponsor @librofm for providing all Open Secrets Live attendees with a credit for a FREE AUDIOBOOK! Get the full agenda and register now at https://t.co/ZoqL8feBUT
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