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CONIUM

@conium.bsky.social

CONIUM is a small press. We publish innovative writing. Take risks. Get weird with it. Website: http://coniumreview.com/ Edited by James R. Gapinski (🏳️‍🌈 they/them) @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social

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CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We’re gonna be at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Nov 8th! Discounts for #tcbf attendees and author signings at the table: twincitiesbookfestival.com We’re also hosting an after party with @paranoidtree.bsky.social. 7pm at Dual Citizen Brewing: dcbc.com/event/shapes...

Twin Cities Book Festival

Rain Taxi’s Twin Cities Book Festival is the annual Minnesota gathering for readers, writers, publishers, and purveyors of literature.

twincitiesbookfestival.com

James R. Gapinski@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Heading back to the Midwest for my book tour in November. Catch me at Dual Citizen in St Paul for a Twin Cities Book Festival after party with a kickass lineup of readers. Hosted by @paranoidxtree.bsky.social and @conium.bsky.social dcbc.com/event/shapes...

Flyer advertising “Shapes and Sound,” a reading hosted by CONIUM Press and Paranoid Tree on Nov 8th 2025 at Dual Citizen brewing in St Paul Minnesota at 7:00pm. Free and open to the public
CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

Seems like a good time to remind writers that we do not and will not publish AI works. A strict prohibition against AI is part of the contract our authors sign. It’s even printed on the copyright page of our latest books. We publish fiction written by PEOPLE. Feels like that should be obvious…

Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

"I like to entertain the idea that there are possibilities outside taken-for-granted terms of the real.” @dwhitethewriter.bsky.social's interview with Rebecca Fishow on her new book “How To Love A Black Hole"(@conium.bsky.social) is out now! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/07/f...

Form and Formlessness in "How To Love A Black Hole": An Interview with Rebecca Fishow - Chicago Review of Books

Prose writer, creative writing instructor, and visual artist Rebecca Fishow’s latest book of short fiction, How to Love a Black Hole, is a rapid, deft, and illusive collection. Moving between narratio...

chireviewofbooks.com

CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to CONIUM contributor Trista Hurley Waxali on last night’s reading and the launch of her debut short story collection (also featuring editor and professional microphone holder Chiwan Choi). Copies available at Writ Large (literally right next to our table).

Photo of Trista Hurley Waxali reading from her new bookTrista Hurley Waxali’s book, A Smoke Stained Cab.
CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

Copies of the “How to Love a Black Hole” limited edition hardcover still available at our #awp25 table (T937). We also still have a whopping THREE copies of the limited edition hardcover of “The Butter House” at the table (plus plenty of paperbacks, so take a deep breath if you miss the hardcover).

Photo of the book “How to Love a Black Hole”Photo of the book, “The Butter House”
CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

Also…my #awp25 hotel room had corner windows on the 56th floor. So know that if you don’t buy any CONIUM books at the bookfair, I will literally be looking down on you in judgement all night long.

Photo of the LA skyline at night
CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

CONIUM's @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social will be teaching a class on animal characters next month. In-person in Portland, OR. Learn how to step outside your pink, gangly, fleshy selves and into something more fabulous, feathered, fanged, and ferocious. literary-arts.org/event/wild-t...

Wild Thing: Animals as Characters

This course features several generative writing prompts where you'll practice writing animalistic short stories, and you can expect to leave with at least one rough draft and several new ideas for fut...

literary-arts.org

James R. Gapinski@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social · last yr.

Still open spots in my @literaryarts.bsky.social class next month! Let's get wild. literary-arts.org/event/wild-t... This is an in-person class at 716 SE Grand Ave in Portland, OR. Reading, discussion, and generative exercises. Participants will come away with at least one new story!

Photograph of a leopard roaring with a headline reading "Wild Thing: Animals As Characters." Advertises a writing workshop with author James R. Gapinski taking place at Literary Arts on 716 SE Grand Avenue in Portland. Saturdays in April, 2025 from 10:30am to 12:30pm. Image also lists two websites: literary-arts.org and jamesrgapinski.com
CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · last yr.

It's funny how many AWP-related phishing scams exist (AWP warns exhibitors about this every year). Spam folder has so many faux #AWP25 msgs right now! I almost feel bad for the scammers...even if they get a bite, they're gonna learn *most* book publishers are already broke.

CONIUM@conium.bsky.social · 2y ago

New year, new reading period! CONIUM is open through the end of Feb., 2025. Fiction only. We lean toward strange, unusual writing. Length is highly flexible, but we lean toward shorter works. Sliding scale reading fee (starting at zero dollars). Full guidelines here: www.coniumpress.com/guidelines

Text-based graphic reading "January 1st, 2025. Conium Press manuscript submissions are officially open."