Novels
FRANCE
Confessions D’Un Loser Et Autres Romans, Editions La Croisée (2024)
Tout Sauf Hollywood, Mediapop Editions (2022)
Putain D’Olivia, Editions La Dragonne (new translation, 2019)
Suicide, Editions Inculte (2019)
Un Faux Pas, Editions La Dragonne (2018)
Travaux Forces, 13E Note Editions (2013)
Dieu Benisse L’Amerique, Pulse/13E Note Editions (2012/2011)
Confessions D’Un Loser, 13E Note Editions (2010)
Putain D’Olivia, 13E Note Editions (2009) – Virgin France’s 2009 Favorite Summer Reads
US
Hopler’s Statement, River Jack Books (2018)
No Strings, Thomas & Mercer (2014), Black Coffee Press (2012) – Black Heart Magazine’s Best Books Of 2012
Hating Olivia, Harper Perennial (2010)
The Favor, Aegina Press (1987)
UK
Nowhere Near Hollywood, Honest Publishing (2019)
The Suicide, Honest Publishing (2014) – Top 10, Foyles’ The Best Fiction Of 2014
Dirty Work, Murder Slim Press (2014)
God Bless America, Murder Slim Press (2010)
Lounge Lizard, Murder Slim Press (2007)
Hating Olivia, Murder Slim Press (2005)
GERMANY
Amerigone, Pulpmaster.de (2023)
Novella
UK
Blossoms And Blood, Murder Slim Press (2017)
Story Collections
UK
The Artistic Life, Murder Slim Press (2016)
Sometimes You Just Don’t Want To Know, Murder Slim Press (2016)
Loners, Murder Slim Press (2008)
Life-Change (two-story volume including “All The Luck”), Murder Slim Press (2018)
FRANCE
La Fracas D’Une Vague, Kicking Books (2019)
Leger Glissement Vers Le Blues, Editions La Dragonne (2017)
Incident Sur La 10th Avenue, Editions La Dragonne (2016)
Stories
“A Perfect Day” — Mystery Tribune Magazine, Issue 22-23, 2024-25
“If They Only Knew” — Tough, Redneck Press, March, 2025
“L’Orologio Da Polso” (“The Wristwatch”) — Il Detonatore Magazine, Issue 5, 2025 (Italy)
“Torment” — The Literary Hatchet, Issue 38, June/November 2024
“The Curse” — Yellow King Press, 2023 (United Kingdom)
“London Fog” — NonBinary Review/Zoetic Press, Issue 37, “False Memories,” 2024
“The Quail, the Grouse, and the Rabbit” — Gone: An Anthology of Crime Stories, Red Dog Press, 2022 (United Kingdom)
“Frogman” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Vol. 155, Nos. 940 & 941, January/February 2020
“The Dangerous Coast” – Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Spring/Summer 2020, Issue #12, www.sblaam.com.
“No…?” – The Thieving Magpie, Issue 9, Spring 2020, www.thievingmagpie.org
“Louise’s Love Letters” — Freedom Fiction Journal, 2019, http://www.freedomfiction.com/2019/03/louises-love-letters-by-mark-safranko/
“The Crash of a Wave” — Taj Mahal Review, Volume 19, Number 2, December, 2019 (India)
“Luck” — Retreats from Oblivion, August 9, 2018, https://retreatsfromoblivion.com/tag/mark-safranko/
“Cream” — Suspense Magazine, 072, Sept./Oct. 2016
“The Executioner” — Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters 4.1-2, 2015, http://www.joomag.com/magazine/assisi-an-online-journal-of-arts-letters-volume-4-issues-1-2/0709878001439389963?short
“The Venice Hit” — Freedom Fiction Journal, 2015, http://www.freedomfiction.com/2015/06/the-venice-hit-by-mark-safranko/
“East of Hollywood” — The Savage Kick Literary Magazine, 7, 2015 (United Kingdom)
“The Trouble with Cars” — Epiphany 23, May, 2014
“One of the Dead” — Bluestem (formerly Karamu), June, 2014
“Chance” (“Luck”) – BooKalicious. http://bookalicious.fr/?p=204 (France)
“The Name of That Tune” — Hardboiled, 46, May, 2013
“The Buck” — The Broadkill Review, 6.3, May-June, 2012
“Paradoxes Everywhere” — The Stinging Fly, 2.20, Winter, 2011-12, “New York Issue” (Ireland)
“The Artistic Life” — Mendicant Bookworks, 2011
“Slip of the Finger” – The Loose Canon, Number 2, 2010 (Canada)
“Satisfied, at Last” — Eclipse 20, Autumn, 2009
“Sometimes You Just Don’t Want to Know” — The Loose Canon 1, 2009. Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2010
“A Cab Ride, Bananas, and Fate” — The Veg, 3.1, Autumn, 2009 (Canada)
“Another Tough Time” – The Savage Kick Literary Magazine, 5, 2009 (United Kingdom)
“Flesh” – Phantasmagoria, 6.2 , 2007
“No Strings Attached” — Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, January-February, 2006
“Haunting Refrain” — The Savage Kick Literary Magazine 3, 2006 (United Kingdom)
“The Laughter of the Clown” — Writing at The Edge, edited by Zsolt Alapi, Siren Song Publishing (Canada); www.laurahird.com, 2005, (Nominated for storySouth 2006 Million Writers Award) (United Kingdom); FreedomFiction.com, January, 2018 http://www.freedomfiction.com/2018/01/the-laughter-of-the-clown-by-mark-safranko/
“Rescuing Ravel”– Descant 44, 2005. Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, 2005
“Acts of Revenge” — Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March, 2003
“A Man Grasping a Beautiful Woman, Who Turns into a Skeleton in His Arms: A Journal Entry from the War Zone” — Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing 8.1, 2003
“Remember to Take a Few Pictures” — The MacGuffin 20.1-2, 2003
“Alone” — The Green Hills Literary Lantern 13, 2002
“Southern Holiday” — Nebo: A Literary Journal, Autumn, 2001
“The Pursuit of the Nonexistent” — Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May, 2001
“The Man in Unit 24” — Hawai’i Review 52, Autumn-Winter, 1999. Cited as a “Distinguished Mystery Story” in The Best American Mystery Stories 2000
“Some Days”– Mind in Motion 47, 1999
“The Follower” — New Orleans Review, 1992
“Prisoners in Paradise” — The Green Hills Literary Lantern 10, 1999. Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2000
“Raw Connections” — Wind Magazine 81-82, 1998
“Exiles and Capitalist Fools” — Pangolin Papers 4.3, 1998
“Beer and Sun” — Sulphur River Literary Review 14.1, 1998
“Little Green Men” — Slugfest, Ltd 8.3-4,Winter-Spring, 1997-98
“Life-Change” — The South Carolina Review 29.3, 1997
“All the Luck” — Tucumcari Literary Review 81, December, 1997
“Jump” — Mind In Motion 42, 1997
“A Little Holocaust” — Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review 26, 1997
“The Big D” — The Soft Door, 1997
“The Ecstasy” — The MacGuffin 13.1, 1996
“The Song of the Swan” — The Licking River Review 27, Autumn/Spring, 1995-1996
“Gauguin’s Folly” — Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review 24-25, 1995
“Something in the Water” — North Atlantic Review 7, 1995
“Dancing for Men” — Tales of the Heart 1.2, Summer, 1994
“The Toe” — The Belletrist Review 2.1, Autumn-Winter, 1993
“The Spirit of the Season.”– Soundings East 17.1, Spring/Summer, 1993
‘Every Day One Step Closer” — The Panhandler 27, 1993
“A Ghost Story” — Thin Ice 14, 1993
“But He Wanted to be Henry Miller” — Art Times 9.4, November, 1992
“The Exotic Bird” — Mind in Motion 26, Summer, 1992
“The Way Benjy Went” — The MacGuffin 3.3, Autumn, 1991
“A Late and Unusual Passion” — The MacGuffin 8.2, 1991. “Special Issue, New Decade, New Writers”
“Work” — Pig Iron 16, 1990
“A Mess of Blues” — Cimarron Review 86, January, 1989
“Beirut”– Accent On: Fiction (formerly A.I.D. Review) 4.1, 1989
“Who Would Understand?” — Soundings East 12.2, Autumn-Winter, 1989
“A Full Moon Street Murder” — Seems 24 & 25, 1989
“Postcard from the Jungle” — Mark 6, Spring, 1989
“A Young Man and an Old Man” — Forum 28.2, Spring, 1987
“The Quail, The Grouse, And The Rabbit” – Gone : An Anthology Of Crime Stories, Red Dog Press, 2022 (United Kingdom)
“The Rainbow Connection.” – Paper and Ink 4, January, 2015 (United Kingdom)
“Incident On Tenth Avenue” — Baron 3, September, 2014 (United Kingdom)
“Vacation” — 3:AM London, New York, Paris. Social Disease, 2008 (United Kingdom)
“Thirst” — The Savage Kick Literary Magazine 9, 2017 (United Kingdom)
“Surkow’s Fantasy” — Dogmatika, February, 2006, https://dogmatika.wordpress.com/. (Northern Ireland)
“Role of a Lifetime” — The Savage Kick Literary Magazine 1, Summer, 2005 (United Kingdom)
“Burying the Hatchet” -– The Chancer 6, 2002 (Northern Ireland)
“D’une Pierre, Deux Coups” (“Two Birds with One Stone”) — Schnaps!#4, 2019 (France)
Plays
US
No…? 30 Minutes Or Less Festival, Stephanie Feury Theater, 5630 Melrose Avenue, January, 2025 (also as Open Door Playhouse Theater 153, 2024)
The Bitch-Goddess. The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, 161 West 22nd Street, New York, November 6-27, 2002
A Harry of Her Own. The Riant Theatre, 161 Hudson St., New York, July-August, 2000 (as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival 2000)
Interrogation #2. The Theatre-Studio Inc., 750 8th Ave., New York, August-October, 2000 (as part of the Fourth Annual NYC Playfest, 2000)
Interrogation #2. The Creative Place Theatre, 750 8th Ave., New York, April 28-30, 2000
Interrogation #2. Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey (as part of the “Ignite the Spirit – Feed the Soul” Conference, sponsored by the Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Company), January 22, 2000
Interrogation #2. The Riant Theatre, January 10-13, 2000 (as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, 2000)
Interrogation #2. Wings Theatre, 154 Christopher St., New York, October 5-13, 1999 (as part of “Entangling Alliances”)
Dancing for Men. The Riant Theatre, April 11-13, 1997 (as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, 1997)
Dancing for Men. The Theatre-Studio Inc., March 14-15 and February 14-15, 1997 (as part of the Playtime Series)
The Bitch-Goddess. The Theatre-Studio Inc., January 11, 12, 18, 19, 1997 (as part of the Playtime Series)
Incident in the Combat Zone. The Theatre-Studio Inc., January 9-10 and 16-17, 1996 (as part of the Playtime Series)
Raw Connections. The Riant Theatre, March 13-14, 1996 (as part of the Strawberry One-Act Festival, 1996)
Incident in the Combat Zone. Belmont Italian American Playhouse, 2385 Arthur Ave., Bronx, New York, September 8 through 25, 1994 (as part of the Fourth Annual One Act Festival)
Chambers of the Heart. The Samuel Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd St., New York, June 16-27, 1993
The Bitch-Goddess. The Madison Avenue Theatre, 162 Madison Ave., New York, April 7-11, 1993
The Bitch-Goddess. The Creative Place Theatre, January 21-30, 1993
Incident in the Combat Zone. The Top of the Gate (Village Gate), Bleecker and Thompson Streets, New York, October 4 and June 29, 1992 (as part of the Village Gate One-Act Festival)
The Bitch-Goddess. The Top of the Gate, July 14 and June 29, 1992 (Best Play of the Village Gate One-Act Festival)
The Bitch-Goddess and The Light of the Universe. The Riant Theatre, May 28 and June 9, 1991 (as part of the Rites of Passion One-Act Festival)
The Bitch-Goddess. The Harold Clurman Theatre, 412 West 42nd St., New York, December 11-15, 1990 (as part of the Voices One-Act Festival).
The Bitch-Goddess. The Samuel Beckett Theatre, 410 West 42nd St., New York, June 5-7, 1990 (as part of Playwrights Horizons Junefest)
UK
The Promise. The Millenium Forum Theatre, Newmarket Street, Derry, Northern Ireland, June 18-21, 2003.
The Bitch-Goddess and Dancing for Men. Cork Arts Theatre, Cork, Ireland, August-September, 2002
The Bitch-Goddess and Dancing for Men. The Playhouse, Derry, Northern Ireland, July, 2002
FRANCE
Minable (“Seedy”), E-Fractions Editions, 2013
Cinema / Scenarios
US
Something in the Water. Peninsula Productions, New York, NY
Hopler’s Statement. Scott McCullough, freelance director, Los Angeles, CA
AUSTRIA
The Favor, Michael Grimm, freelance director, Vienna, Austria
Poetry
US
What Happened? Poems and Lyrics, Anxiety Press (2023)
NEBO (2006), Abridged (2005), First Class (2002), Grasslands Review (1995)
UK
I Can’t Believe You (Selected Poems, 1990-2021), Scumbag Press, 2021
The Chancer (2002)
Scarecrow Magazine
France
Microbe, La revue de l’a-croissance 86, (November-December, 2014)
Essays
“The Whole Man.” Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal 2 (2005).
“Miller in Love: The Twisted Saga of an Unproduced Play.” Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal 4 (2007).
Travel (Collaboration)
The Best Places to Kiss in New York City, A Romantic Travel Guide, Beginning Press, 1989