Atmospheric, speculative literary fiction and structurally innovative nonfiction exploring diverse themes such as coming-of-age narratives, underrepresented communities, sports, masculinity, secrets, climate change, and second-stage girlhood.
Cassie Mannes Murray is a literary agent at Howland Literary who is inspired by work that blurs genre boundaries and pays attention to language and sentence construction. She also works as a literary publicist at her own company, Pine State Publicity, and is a writer with an MFA in creative nonfiction.
Submissions should be emailed to https://QueryManager.com/CassieMannesMurray All details to submit your pages, book, or proposal are on the QueryManager page.
Last verified: March 22, 2026
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