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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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Vincent O'Keefe@VincentAOKeefe3 Oct 2025
Ever wear a rock band pin back in middle school (a.k.a. junior high)? You might enjoy my new essay at Open Secrets Magazine—especially if you’re a #Genesis fan! #PeterGabriel #PhilCollins opensecretsmagazine.com/p/ge…

Objectives #5: Put It On Again: Why I Love My Genesis Pin from Seventh Grade

I’ve been listening to Genesis since childhood, and their music never gets old for me

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CLMP@CLMPorg27 Nov 2025
Browse and bookmark our #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth reading list for year-round reading recommendations from @SFWP, @auntlute, @haymarketbooks, @AyinPress, @feralhouse, @opensecretsmag, @AdiMagazine, @Hopkins_Review, @beestungmag & more: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…

A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend...

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"Give yourself the freedom to cut and paste and glue and doodle, and see where your stories take you." -- Nicole Breit in Getting to the Truth, our craft anthology. Details: booksbyhippocampus.com/store…
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Open Secrets Magazine@OpenSecretsMag11 Nov 2025
How do you eat when you have MCAS, diabetes, are on a low histamine diet, your safest foods are fresh fruits and vegetables, and you use SMAP benefits and food pantries? Find out from Lara McKusky in our food insecurity essay series: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/th…
Photo of cut up broccoli and apples The Exhausting Mathematics of Hunger While Receiving SNAP How ill health and being poor impact my eating opensecretsmagazine.com

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Open Secrets Magazine@OpenSecretsMag2 Nov 2025
PLEASE SHARE: Personal essays on current food insecurity, including loss of SNAP benefits, wanted. Pays $200/essay. Authors retain all rights. Rolling deadline until all 5 essays are commissioned. See our writing guidelines for details: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/fo… #snapbenefits
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CLMP@CLMPorg5 Nov 2025
“It was August 13, 2022. Early that Saturday morning, after an evening of drinking wine and watching movies, I awoke to use the bathroom.” Read Christina Berry’s essay, “The Stroke of a Pen,” in @opensecretsmag! #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth opensecretsmagazine.com/p/th…

The Stroke of a Pen

What happened to a romance novelist in her mid-forties when she couldn't read or write after a stroke

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Wrote an essay about objects and grief for @OpenSecretsMag. opensecretsmagazine.com/p/ch…

Objectives #8: The Powder Puff in My Drawer Smells Like the Ghost of My Grandmother

I now share my triumphs and struggles with this memento of my beloved Mamá

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Open Secrets Magazine@OpenSecretsMag4 Oct 2025
We are open to personal essay submissions from subscribers through November 30 in select categories! Yes, we pay. Get all the details in our writing guidelines: opensecretsmagazine.com/p/li…
Open Secrets Magazine logo Text: Write your life in a personal essay Submissions open in select categories through November 30 opensecretsmagazine.com

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Open Secrets Magazine@OpenSecretsMag20 May 2025
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/br…
Alt text Photo of white woman wearing face mask sitting behind the wheel of a Tesla electric vehicle and Open Secrets Magazine logo I’m a Tesla-Driving Liberal by Sammi LaBue opensecretsmagazine.com

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Tara Jabbari@tara_jabbari10 May 2025
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: thegameofnerds.com/2025/05/0…

A Panel of Writers Discuss Mental Health

On May 3rd, 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

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CLMP@CLMPorg23 Apr 2025
“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 opensecretsmagazine.com/p/sm…

What It Feels Like to Live in “Satan’s Ashtray” During Smoke Season

A history of my adaptation to the Pacific Northwest’s grim new weather caused by climate change

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CLMP@CLMPorg23 Apr 2025
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: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…

A Reading List for Earth Day 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

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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rose saltman@Napoleonspiano12 Apr 2025
Thank you to @OpenSecretsMag for publishing my story of online gaming addiction opensecretsmagazine.com/p/on….

My Online Gaming Addiction Started with Playing Scrabble on Facebook

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! estelleserasmus.com/128-craf…
Alt text Freelance Writing Direct #128 Crafting Cathartic Personal Essays Rachel Kramer Bussel Guest Estelle Erasmus Host Photos of Rachel Kramer Bussel and Estelle Erasmus

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Open Secrets Magazine@OpenSecretsMag14 Feb 2025
**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/pa…
Paid Call for Personal Essays on Climate Change and Climate Issues Open Secrets Magazine will publish at least one personal essay per month by in a new Climate category Open Secrets Magazine is currently accepting submissions of unpublished… Opensecretsmagazine.com

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Dinty W. Moore@brevitymag19 Feb 2025
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/2025/0…

The Brevity Blog’s 19th Birthday

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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Dinty W. Moore@brevitymag3 Feb 2025
"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: eventbrite.com/e/open-secret…
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Electric Literature@ElectricLit1 Feb 2025
"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) buff.ly/40UfE5K
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Porter House Review@PorterHouseLit22 Dec 2024
Calling all poets, fiction and nonfiction writers! We have just opened our Free Submission Period for our Editor's Prize Contest. Send in your work now for our judges to review! Find more info via the link in bio! #witingcontest #literaryjournal #porterhousereview
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