Mark Connelly
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Mark Connelly's fiction has appeared in Indiana Review, Milwaukee Magazine, Smoky Blue Arts and Literary Magazine, Cream City Review, Red Savina Review, Carve Magazine, The Ledge, Home Planet News, Change Seven, 34th Parallel, Light and Dark, The Great American Literary Magazine, and Digital Papercut. In 2005 Texas Review Press published his novella Fifteen Minutes, which received the Clay Reynolds Award.
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His non-fiction books include The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, Deadly Closets: The Fiction of Charles Jackson, and The IRA on Film and Television. His recent book The Group Theatre: An Enduring Legacy will be published in 2023.
Seeking Literary Agent for Novels
63,000 words
Failed actor Apple joins forces with a trans camgirl and his friend Two Tony in a series of get-rich-quick ventures involving counterfeit Hummels, drag queen story hours, and Angry Karens.
A breezy mashup of Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Pope of Greenwich Village, and Pawn Stars.
* Two parts published as short stories.
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95,000 words
On parole after serving eight years for killing two women in a drunk driving accident, former attorney Robert Newman struggles with building a new life.
* Eight parts published as short stories
* Three awards including Pushcart Nomination
* Honorable Mention Leapfrog Novel Contest, 2021
* Semifinalist Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition, 2021
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72,000 words
Midlife crisis leads nightclub owner Richard Hennessey into a night journey of encounters that shakes his American Dream
* One part published
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