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Honored to have published this Edgar! Thank you @mysterywriters.bsky.social and congratulations @erikakrouse.bsky.social !
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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A huge thank you to everyone who made our first ever Conjunctions Benefit Salon a night to remember! Special thanks to:
April 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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NEW this week online, a memorable piece from the archive in honor of Rick Moody's upcoming reading. Hope you can join us on the 31st!
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A photo of a stack of old photos in an old woman's lap. She has white wrinkled skin and her feet are slipped and resting on a bright green, yellow, red, and blue rug. Text on a yellow background reads "She Forgot" and "Rick Moody." Yellow background with kelly green text that reads, "She forgot everything that was mundane and everything that was humdrum, and so there was no mundanity. The taste of toothpaste. A cup full of water, light refracted in it."
March 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Join us for a reading with Rick Moody!

Monday, March 31
4 p.m.
Weis Cinema, Bard College

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Black and white author photo of Rick Moody. In addition to his name, the text framing the image reads "The Innovative Contemporary Fiction Reading Series Presents" and "Introduced by Bradford Morrow."
March 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"In our country, we know that everything is true, what anyone says or thinks."
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Shadowy painting of an empty sitting room of what resembles Austro Hungarian opulence. Text underneath the image reads, "Hotel, Aleš Šteger, translated by Brian Henry." Rasin mauve background with pale yellow text that reads, "Maybe this is the only thing left for us after the war: rumors. It doesn't matter whether someone believes them or not. In our country, we know that everything is true, what anyone says or thinks. That's why we all remain silent. We are silent and we go on living."
March 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Photo of Mark Valentine and the answer "Not writing." Photo of Timothy J. Jarvis and the answer "Irresolution. Gaps. Discordance. Thanks that don't make sense or don't add up." Photo of Stephen Graham Jones and the answer “Using the same word twice, too close. And one certain semicolon an editor foisted on me when I begged for it not to be there, to never be there, this is how a second-grader would deploy a semicolon. But it’s there in the aftermatter of one of my books now, very much as if I’m the one who put it there. I’m haunted by it about every twenty minutes.”
March 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We asked our Revenants contributors what haunts them as writers, but we also want to know what haunts you. The past? The future? Semicolons?
Black background with the text "We asked...What haunts you as a writer?" Photo of Patricia Smith and the answer "The next line." Photo of Erin MacNair and the answer "The idea that AI will infiltrate all the creative spaces, rendering writers obsolete." Photo of Jame Morrow and the answer, "If all the ghosts and gods disappeared tomorrow, I would feel no personal sense of loss. But I could never abide a world without trees, insects, turtles, bats, and aging dogs. I am haunted by the vulnerability of the given.”
March 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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For those who couldn’t join us for Kelly Link and Jedediah Berry’s reading, we’re sharing an interview with Kelly published in Conjunctions:67, Other Aliens. Topics include Star Trek, first contact, and other aspects of a literary life. 👽
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Smiling headshot of Kelly Link with her eyes closed and her hands on her cheeks. She is wearing three statement rings. Bold blue background with lavender text that reads, "Years ago, Slate.com had a contest to come up with titles in teh same style as Snakes on a Plane. The best was "The Creature Lurks in the Structure." Which describes most succinctly my favorite genre. Perhaps all of art."
March 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Yesterday's one-of-a-kind reading of "The Family Arcana," a story in cards. Thank you to jedediahberry.bsky.social, kellylink.bsky.social, and everyone who joined us for such a fantastic evening! ✨
Photo of the writer Jedediah Berry shuffling his story in cards. Photo of Jedediah Berry extending his story in cards to the writer Mary Caponegro to cut the deck. Photo of the writer Kelly Link reading from a podium.
March 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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NEW this week online, a city made from nine concentric rings and a law restricting citizens from migrating between rings only twice.
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Old illuminated manuscript illustration of a close cluster of buildings, some with red roofs, green walls, and blue domes situated on a medium green background with the text "The Circular City" and "Brecht Wright Gander." A medium green background with the text "The floor begins to tremble. You hold still as though holding still might be a means of protection. A pause. Silence. Dampness. Coolness falls through you. Then the clamor begins again."
February 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Join us in Annandale for a reading by Kelly Link & Jedediah Berry!

Monday, March 3
4 p.m.
Weis Cinema, Bard College
February 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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In celebration of Erika Krouse's 2025 Edgar Award nom, we’re sharing an excerpt of her story "Eat My Moose" this week online! (Also, check out her new book! 😍 )
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Photograph of Conjunctions:82, Works & Days and Erika Krouse's book Save Me, Stranger on a wooden table situated on a yellow background with the text "Eat My Moose" and "Erika Krouse." Yellow background with forest green text that reads, "But with these jobs, I feel ephemeral, anonymous, once I'm in the air or down the road. Under the roof of clouds, I check my body for pain and find none. Oftentimes I forget the client's name within miles. Sometimes I sing."
February 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Five artworks. Five poems. One Chris Tysh.
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Cropped photograph of abstract paper cutouts that form two shadowy hills on a raspberry background with the text "Grand Bal de Nuit" and "Chris Tysh." A raspberry background with icy lemon text that reads, "As if a peal of thunder tore a wall sending dancers aux quatre vents theirs lines and circles flattened fifths called devil's note one plays to hold that erotic shudder down their spine a sliver longer before night's black sail rustles on."
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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NEW this week online, “Finally,” by Patricia Smith, a revenge story told from the point of view of a racist police officer as he is confronted by the ghosts of those who have been murdered by other racist police officers.
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Screenshot of the Conjunctions website home page, which features the story "Finally," by Patricia Smith at the top, with a black and white photograph of a man covering his face with his hands.
February 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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"You have a heart of starlings, a heart of their cacophony; of this, you are sure."
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Watercolor of two gnarled beech trees facing each other on a hill in warm browns and purples against a cheery purple background. Light orange text reads "The Rites of Spring" and "Dan Rosenberg." Cheery purple background with light orange text that reads, "Each branch of you is a branch of sawing. You descend full of dark and unsure of your own sap pumping in the dark inside of you. Unsure of the color. You have a heart of starlings, a heart of their cacophony; of this, you are sure."
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Six poems by Sandra Meek, NEW this week online!
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Light peach background with a dark, close-up sepia photograph of frost, which almost looks like coniferous tree branches. Text reads "Acquiescent Moon (in Auieo)" and "Sandra Meek." Light peach background with dark text that reads, "Not Saturn's pursing rings chirring the end to any fruiting, the orchard's bluff itself no frost's causing—still, the orbs brown, worm, fall. Pawn and Psalm, Fray's Unfurling, Blistered Empress of Almanacs—such is night."
January 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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"I couldn't find the words, because it wasn't made of words..."
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Photograph of winter sunrise over frosty plains. Text underneath reads, "Selling a Land Rover in Central Illinois" and "Alexander Fredman." Tangerine background with cocoa brown text that reads, "I couldn't find the words, because it wasn't made of words, it had to do with the image of my father sitting in the car, his reserve against the bright, rhythmic music. Only in memory did I notice how hard he was trying not to smile."
January 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Though it’s now officially winter, little by little, the late afternoons are filling with sunlight. Your generous contributions over the holidays have given us a similar feeling of hope. Each gift of $25, $100, and $1,000 has inched us closer to our goal of independently publishing Conjunctions:85.
Japanese woodcut of a snowy landscape and sea under a blue, pink, and white sky.
January 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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New year, new website. Cheers to 2025!
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January 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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2025 will be big for us—after 33 years at Bard, we'll be producing our fall issue independently. We need your help to make this happen. So before you pop the champagne, please make a donation and remember to write "Conjunctions" in the notes. Cheers to another year!
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December 31, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Your gift x 2!

Donate before January 1st, and any gift you give to Conjunctions will be matched up to 10K!

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December 27, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Match your gift, double your impact!

Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, every tax-deductible donation will be matched up to $10K through December 31st! Help ensure our independent future this holiday!

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December 23, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Accessible. Navigable. Beautiful. NEW this week online, our website!

Join us in thanking the incredible Everything Studio who designed this exceptional home for our work!

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December 20, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Don’t let us ghost. Double your donation with this holiday matching grant!

Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, we are able to double any tax-deductible donation up to $10K!

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December 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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POV: You're a spirit floating with other spirits, clustered like shadowy soap bubbles resting on the ceiling.
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December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM