Open Secrets Magazine is hosting its first event, personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live, exploring why and how writers reveal their innermost secrets on the page and offering advice to aspiring authors. Featuring keynote speaker Jane Pratt and over 30 memoir authors, essayists, storytellers, and editors from Narratively, HuffPost Personal, Another Jane Pratt Thing, HarperCollins, and Random House, the summit will feature panels on relationships, family, identity, LGBTQIA life, mental health, work, and getting personal writing published. Speakers include Sari Botton, Lester Fabian Brathwaite, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Andrea King Collier, John DeVore, Veena Dinavahi, Kari Ferrell, Michele Filgate, Dionne Ford, Edgar Gomez, Rob Hart, Maris Kreizman, Janine Kwoh, Debbie Millman, Tracy O'Neill, Rakesh Satyal, Alex Segura, Hyeseung Song, Jesse Sposato, Guinevere Turner, Jamia Wilson, Carmen Rita Wong, Zachary Zane, and more.
$25 early bird tickets are available via Eventbrite through January 31, 2025 or until they’re sold out. Price increases to $35 on February 1, 2025.
Light refreshments will be served. The event will be held in an ADA compliant space.
All attendees will receive a credit for a free audiobook from sponsor Libro.fm and Kew & Willow Books will be our onsite bookseller.