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YAHOO! It's always a good day when my creative nonfiction gets accepted by a literary publication. This just hit my inbox today:

Dear Cynthia,

We are delighted to inform you that “Nobody Knows I Have a Brother” has been accepted for our Spring 2024 issue of the Spellbinder Quarterly Literary and Art Magazine.

We would like to check that the work we have accepted has not been previously published or self-published. If your work has been and/or is due to be published or self-published (e.g., on websites, social media channels, and/or personal blogs), please notify us immediately.

In order to feature in this publication, you will need to sign the release form attached and send this back to us via email before the 17th of March at the very latest to confirm that you have the full copyright to your work. You can either print the release form, sign it and send us a scanned copy, or alternatively you can sign it digitally and send us the signed copy (.pdf or .doc formats preferred).

You will also need to complete the accepted submissions form.

We pay an honorarium per acceptance after print publication. If you wish to receive this honorarium, please sign up...

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Cynthia Close

Armed with an MFA from Boston University Cynthia plowed her way through several productive careers in the arts including instructor in drawing and painting, Dean of Admissions at The Art Institute of Boston, founder of ARTWORKS Consulting, and president of Documentary Educational Resources - a nonprofit film distribution company. She now claims to be a writer.

In addition…
To support this claim, she is a contributing editor for Documentary Magazine and writes regularly about art, cinema, and culture for, Artist’s Magazine, Art & Object, Pastel Magazine, Art New England, Vermont Woman, and formerly for Professional Artist Magazine. Her creative non-fiction appeared in the 2014, 2016, and 2017 anthology The Best of the Burlington Writers Workshop. Her essays have been published in various literary journals including 34th Parallel, Across the Margin, Adelaide, Agni, Bacopa Literary Review, The Black and White Anthology, Blood and Bourbon, The Brooklyn Film Arts nonfiction prize finalist, From Whispers to Roars, The Longridge Review, Montana Mouthful, Orson’s Review, The Seasons of Our Lives, Swallow Press, The Twisted Vine, Wagon Bridge Press, and The Woven Tales Press, among others. She has read publicly at many venues including the Cornelia Street Café in NYC. She was the inaugural art editor for the literary and art journal Mud Season Review launched in 2014.