Open Secrets Live in NYC, May 3, 2025

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Join us for our first in-person event, Open Secrets Live, on Saturday, May 3, 2025 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m on New York’s Upper East Side (76th and York). Hosted by Open Secrets Magazine editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, this personal storytelling event will feature contributors to Open Secrets Magazine along with essayists and memoir authors sharing their life stories and editors sharing what they’re looking for from their slush piles. Light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in an ADA compliant space.

Attendees will receive a credit for a free audiobook from sponsor Libro.fm.

Confirmed speakers include (* = Open Secrets Magazine contributor):

Rachel Kramer Bussel, Editor and Founder, Open Secrets Magazine *

, author of memoir in essays And You May Find Yourself...: Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo, editor of , , and.

, author of memoir Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

Katina Corrao, Comedian, actress, and author *

John DeVore, author of memoir Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway * (Substack:

)

Dirty Lola, Sex educator

Kelli Dunham, Writer and comedian *

Dionne Ford, author of Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing

Ellen Friedrichs, author of Good Sexual Citizenship *

Rob Hart, author of Assassins Anonymous *

, Entrepreneur and sexual health educator

Judy McGuire, author of How Not to Date

Tracy O’Neill, author of memoir Woman of Interest

, Editor,

Alex Segura, author of Alter Ego *

, Executive Editor,

, Comedian and Writer

Guinevere Turner, author of memoir When the World Didn’t End *

, author of memoir Boyslut

Stay tuned for the full lineup, sponsors, further details and early bird registration! Open Secrets Magazine subscribers will be the first to receive the registration link.

Sponsored by Narratively and Libro.fm.

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