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From Abortion to Acupuncture
How I learned how much pain I can endure
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Brenda Usher-Carpino
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How to Get Your Personal Essay Published in Open Secrets Magazine
Writing tips and submission advice from Open Secrets Magazine editor Rachel Kramer Bussel
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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
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Writing Queer Romance as an Exploration of My Own Queerness
How I fell in love with my queer self through my queer fictional characters
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Karmen Lee
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Digging in the Dirt: Facing My Mother’s Hoarder House
Unearthing family secrets, rewriting family narratives, and finding grace
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Lost Found Kept-Deb Kossmann
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Early Bird Tickets on Sale Now for Open Secrets Live on May 3, 2025 in New York City
Hear Jane Pratt and over two dozen essayists, memoir authors, storytellers, and magazine and book editors discuss their approach to first person writing…
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How I Learned to Be Vulnerable After Growing Up in a Religious Cult
After being bullied as a child for being different, as a woman in my forties I’ve finally embraced what makes me unique
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Dear Daddy Advice Column, January 2025: How to Figure Out If You're Straight or Bisexual
Or whether you need to label your sexual orientation at all
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December 2024

I Learned Not All Rare Things Are Valuable, and Not All Plentiful Things Are Worthless
If you could save just one thing from a fire, what would it be? I wish I had been offered the choice
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Helen Chandler-Wilde
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Keychains and Clutter: Coming to Terms with My Hoarding Tendencies
To trash out or not to trash is the question
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Priya Kalyanasundaram
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Maternity Ward. Psych Ward. Repeat.
Shuttling back and forth between two very different hospital wards on the night my son was born
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Michael Venutolo-Mantovani
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Mark Your Calendars for Open Secrets Live in NYC on May 3, 2025
Jane Pratt is our opening keynote speaker!
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