Cynthia Blakeley, PhD

Creative Nonfiction

Click below to read some of my published memoir essays

Right on the Inside Graphic
"Right on the Inside" in HerStry
Round icon showing a drawing of a person sitting on a bench reading a book about Cape Cod. The person is dressed in a warm coat and blue jeans, with a hat on her head.
"Unk" in The Cape Cod Voice: Literary Issue
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"Captured" in Dreamers Creative Writing
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"Bomb Squads" in The Cape Cod Voice
Old House as store in the early 1900s. The building looks abandoned. One window is broken.
Family home when it was the South Wellfleet General Store (mid-19th century until circa 1930). The window at top is the bedroom I shared with two sisters.
Black and white photograph of author’s home in Wellfleet in the 1950s, taken from the side yard. Ivy covers the clapboard walls. A small summerhouse stands to the right of the house, and the garage stands to the left.
Our house in the 1950s, after its moved to its current location.
Low rose hip bushes on sandy rise bordering Wellfleet harbor
Rose hips on Mayo Beach, Wellfleet