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Cassie Mannes Murray

The last time the agent had an active listing on Duotrope, the agent was affiliated with Howland Literary, LLC (see other agents at this agency).

Permanently Closed: This agent is no longer accepting queries (January 2023). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Cassie Mannes Murray is a writer, agent, and publicist. Born and raised in the American south, she is a graduate of North Carolina State University and has an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of North Carolina Wilmington where she was a publishing fellow with Ecotone Magazine and Lookout Books. She currently runs her own publicity firm, Pine State Publicity, where she works on mid-list and independent press titles, as well as poetry collections. Before joining Howland Literary and was a high school teacher in rural North Carolina.

Country

United States

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Cassie is seeking genre-b(l)ending work in both adult nonfiction and fiction. In fiction, she is looking for work that feels left-of-center, magnifies voice, and would be considered "weird without the world building." She is always looking for stories that have been purposefully left out or pushed aside in publishing. Please send her fiction that's stellar at dialogue, humor, and/or atmosphere.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.

Genres:

General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Cross-Genre

Lengths:

Novella
Fiction Collection
Novel

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Literary, Mainstream, Quirky.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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In nonfiction, she is interested in pop culture analysis, sociocultural histories, biogoir and backdoor memoir (not really traditional memoir in the sense of "life story" without something more to it), science and natural histories, hybrid texts, and essay collections. She is most inspired by work that blurs boundaries, begets new structures and traditions, and has influences in poetry. She does love a good plot though, and her favorite thing to help with is the structure of a narrative.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience, including: Adults.

Lengths:

Nonfiction Collection
Book

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Academic, Experimental, Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Ethics.
History.
Life Sciences.
Memoir.
Society/Culture: General, Pop culture.

Submissions:

Method: QueryTracker.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026

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