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
Website: http://coniumreview.com/
Edited by James R. Gapinski (🏳️🌈 they/them) @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social
Find us at the Twin Cities Book Festival! Exhibit hall table 619 on Nov 8th at Union Depot in St. Paul, MN. Discounts on books all day long, and author signings too:
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social at 1:00pm
@rebeccafishow.bsky.social at 2:00pm
Hope to see you there! twincitiesbookfestival.com
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social at 1:00pm
@rebeccafishow.bsky.social at 2:00pm
Hope to see you there! twincitiesbookfestival.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Find us at the Twin Cities Book Festival! Exhibit hall table 619 on Nov 8th at Union Depot in St. Paul, MN. Discounts on books all day long, and author signings too:
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social at 1:00pm
@rebeccafishow.bsky.social at 2:00pm
Hope to see you there! twincitiesbookfestival.com
@jamesrgapinski.bsky.social at 1:00pm
@rebeccafishow.bsky.social at 2:00pm
Hope to see you there! twincitiesbookfestival.com
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...
We’re also hosting an after party with @paranoidtree.bsky.social. 7pm at Dual Citizen Brewing: dcbc.com/event/shapes...
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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...
We’re also hosting an after party with @paranoidtree.bsky.social. 7pm at Dual Citizen Brewing: dcbc.com/event/shapes...
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Chicago! I’ll see you tomorrow at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social. 7pm.
Celebrating my new book. In conversation with @mallorysmart.bsky.social, author and editor at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Be there. It’s gonna be rad.
madstreetbooks.com/events/34263...
Celebrating my new book. In conversation with @mallorysmart.bsky.social, author and editor at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Be there. It’s gonna be rad.
madstreetbooks.com/events/34263...
Author Event with James R. Gapinski | Madison Street Books
madstreetbooks.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Chicago! I’ll see you tomorrow at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social. 7pm.
Celebrating my new book. In conversation with @mallorysmart.bsky.social, author and editor at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Be there. It’s gonna be rad.
madstreetbooks.com/events/34263...
Celebrating my new book. In conversation with @mallorysmart.bsky.social, author and editor at @maudlinhouse.bsky.social
Be there. It’s gonna be rad.
madstreetbooks.com/events/34263...
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Want to read my book but don’t want to part with your hard earned cash?
You could win a free copy at @thestorygraph.com
Enter the giveaway here for a chance to win:
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/97...
You could win a free copy at @thestorygraph.com
Enter the giveaway here for a chance to win:
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/97...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Want to read my book but don’t want to part with your hard earned cash?
You could win a free copy at @thestorygraph.com
Enter the giveaway here for a chance to win:
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/97...
You could win a free copy at @thestorygraph.com
Enter the giveaway here for a chance to win:
app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/97...
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🎉🎉🎉 Party Alert!
In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️
In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🎉🎉🎉 Party Alert!
In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️
In partnership with @conium.bsky.social, we will be hosting Shapes & Sound, a reading event & book/zine party. Come hang with us at Dual Citizen Brewery on 11/8. Beverages will be available for purchase and we’ll have some snacks for y’all to enjoy! No RSVP and totally free. ❤️
It’s publication day for “How to Love a Black Hole,” by @rebeccafishow.bsky.social
Get your copy today.
The author will be celebrating this book at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social in Chicago this Thursday! 🎉🎊
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
#books #reading #writing #authorevent #pubday
Get your copy today.
The author will be celebrating this book at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social in Chicago this Thursday! 🎉🎊
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
#books #reading #writing #authorevent #pubday
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
It’s publication day for “How to Love a Black Hole,” by @rebeccafishow.bsky.social
Get your copy today.
The author will be celebrating this book at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social in Chicago this Thursday! 🎉🎊
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
#books #reading #writing #authorevent #pubday
Get your copy today.
The author will be celebrating this book at @madstreetbooks.bsky.social in Chicago this Thursday! 🎉🎊
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
#books #reading #writing #authorevent #pubday
Hey, Chicago! “How to Love a Black Hole” releases next week! Celebrate the launch at Madison Street Books with the author and special guest Anne Yoder! Thursday, October 9th at 7:00pm.
madstreetbooks.com/events/35069...
#books #reading #writing
madstreetbooks.com/events/35069...
#books #reading #writing
October 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hey, Chicago! “How to Love a Black Hole” releases next week! Celebrate the launch at Madison Street Books with the author and special guest Anne Yoder! Thursday, October 9th at 7:00pm.
madstreetbooks.com/events/35069...
#books #reading #writing
madstreetbooks.com/events/35069...
#books #reading #writing
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This is a lovely, fun and super quick read especially if you are a cat person. Definitely recommend.
@conium.bsky.social
@conium.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This is a lovely, fun and super quick read especially if you are a cat person. Definitely recommend.
@conium.bsky.social
@conium.bsky.social
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…
We publish fiction written by PEOPLE. Feels like that should be obvious…
June 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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…
We publish fiction written by PEOPLE. Feels like that should be obvious…
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Bonus, we just added a couple of books by #ExpoContributor @mspicone.bsky.social to our @bookshop.org! Get them here: bookshop.org/lists/expo-c...! @conium.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social ...
Expo Contributors
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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May 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Bonus, we just added a couple of books by #ExpoContributor @mspicone.bsky.social to our @bookshop.org! Get them here: bookshop.org/lists/expo-c...! @conium.bsky.social @gameoverbooks.bsky.social ...
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"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...
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
April 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"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...
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/07/f...
We’ve got ONE “We Are Still Here” and ONE “Girl & Flame” left! If you want either of these fantastic books, come get ‘em at #AWP25 table T937
March 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We’ve got ONE “We Are Still Here” and ONE “Girl & Flame” left! If you want either of these fantastic books, come get ‘em at #AWP25 table T937
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).
March 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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).
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).
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).
March 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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).
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).
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.
March 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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.
March 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
March 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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...
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.
March 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
"How to Love a Black Hole," by @rebeccafishow.bsky.social is available now! Join the author for a reading at the Rare Nest Gallery in Chicago this weekend. Part of the Lovers Eye Press reading series. RSVPs required. More details here: www.loverseyepress.com/general-8
March 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"How to Love a Black Hole," by @rebeccafishow.bsky.social is available now! Join the author for a reading at the Rare Nest Gallery in Chicago this weekend. Part of the Lovers Eye Press reading series. RSVPs required. More details here: www.loverseyepress.com/general-8
The hardcover of @rebeccafishow.bsky.social's "How to Love a Black Hole" drops today! And if you're in Chicago, the author will be reading from the collection at Madison Street Books at 6:00pm tonight. 🎉🍾
March 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The hardcover of @rebeccafishow.bsky.social's "How to Love a Black Hole" drops today! And if you're in Chicago, the author will be reading from the collection at Madison Street Books at 6:00pm tonight. 🎉🍾
March 4th! Learn more and get a copy of @rebeccafishow.bsky.social’s “How to Love a Black Hole” here:
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
March 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
March 4th! Learn more and get a copy of @rebeccafishow.bsky.social’s “How to Love a Black Hole” here:
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...
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
January 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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
Pre-orders on sale now for the limited-edition hardcover of Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole." Reserve your copy at most major retailers:
bookshop.org/a/88673/9781...
www.amazon.com/dp/1942387229
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-lov...
bookshop.org/a/88673/9781...
www.amazon.com/dp/1942387229
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-lov...
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Pre-orders on sale now for the limited-edition hardcover of Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole." Reserve your copy at most major retailers:
bookshop.org/a/88673/9781...
www.amazon.com/dp/1942387229
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-lov...
bookshop.org/a/88673/9781...
www.amazon.com/dp/1942387229
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-lov...