My essay, titled HUMAN REMAINS was accepted for publication in print and online

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It’s been awhile since I’ve had creative nonfiction published in a literary magazine so this message was a welcomed today:

Hello Cynthia!

I have reviewed your submission for Empyrean Literary Magazine Issue 16: Vol 4, No 4. Empyrean would like to congratulate you on the acceptance of "HUMAN REMAINS." Empyrean will publish these pieces under your name, both in the print and web editions of Empyrean Literary Magazine. At this point I want to confirm that you still want Empyrean to publish these pieces under your name, in the Empyrean Literary Magazine. This means Empyrean will have the exclusive right to publish the chosen pieces for six months from first publication in The Empyrean Literary Magazine, and that you will not post or publish these on any other websites, magazines, or social media pages during that time. After six months, the rights will revert back to you and you can republish them as you see fit. 

I will need confirmation on or before November 25th.

Thank you for submitting to Empyrean Literary Magazine!

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Kaylyn Marie Naumann

Empyrean Literary Magazine, Editor-in-Chief 

empyreanliterarymagazine@gmail.com

www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com

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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.