Join editors from three creative nonfiction literary magazines for a discussion about publishing personal essays and true stories. Learn how submissions work, what makes a piece stand out, common reasons for rejection, and why literary magazines are an excellent place for both emerging and established writers to publish their work. ANNE E. BEALL, Ph.D., is an award-winning author and social psychologist who is the founder and editor of Chicago Story Press Literary Journal. She has written nine nonfiction books and published essays in numerous literary journals. Anne has been featured in People, NPR, NBC, and the Chicago Tribune. She is passionate about publishing pieces that help people see something differently.
RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL is an essayist, journalist, editor-in-chief of personal essay magazine Open Secrets, which covers topics we’re taught to keep “secret,” and organizer of personal storytelling summit Open Secrets Live. Rachel hosts the podcast Finders and Keepers, about our emotional attachments to our belongings, also the subject of an anthology Rachel is working on.
ANGELA M. GILES is the editor of The ManifestStation, a literary home for writing about the hard, beautiful parts of being human. She is currently working on a book about stroke and the unmaking of memory. Her essays have appeared in The Coachella Review, The Healing Muse, and the Seal Press anthology Shades of Blue. She lives in Massachusetts.
