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CONIUM is a small press. We publish innovative writing. Take risks. Get weird with it. Edited by @jamesrgapinski 🏳️‍🌈 they/them

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Conium Press@ConiumPress
27 Mar 2025
Table “T937” at #awp25 is Los Angeles. Come buy some books!
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Los Angeles Review@LAReview
23 Jul 2025
Wes Blake reviews “How to Love a Black Hole” by Rebecca Fishow today on LAR. Check out Blake’s full review on the site here: losangelesreview.org/how-to-… @ConiumPress #LARreviews
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Seems like a good time to remind writers that we do not & 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 #writing #publishing
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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
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Final day at #awp25. Discounts on everything. Don’t make me carry these books back home! Table T937.
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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, table T935 (literally right next to our table).
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Got $30? You could turn that into 3 books! Table T937 at #awp25
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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).
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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.
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James R. Gapinski@JamesRGapinski
22 Mar 2025
Galley copies of my new book, “The Museum of Future Mistakes,” will be available soon! If you write reviews, work in media, or are a book buyer for a bookstore, fill out the form on my website if you’re interested in a copy! jamesrgapinski.com/the-museu… #WritingCommunity #Reading

The Museum of Future Mistakes — James R. Gapinski

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See ya'll soon at #AWP25. CONIUM is at table T937.
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CONIUM's @JamesRGapinski 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.
James R. Gapinski@JamesRGapinski
16 Mar 2025
Still open spots in my class next month! Let's get wild, Portland. literary-arts.org/event/wild… This is an in-person class at the new Literary Arts location: 716 SE Grand Avenue. 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

ALT 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
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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.
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5 Mar 2025
logging on for another day at the stupidity mines
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The hardcover of Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole" drops today! And if you're in Chicago, the author will be reading from the collection at @madstreetbooks at 6:00pm tonight. 🎉🍾
Flyer for a reading on March 4th, 2025 at 6:00pm at Madison Street Books in Chicago, IL.

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Necessary Fiction@NecessaryFic
3 Mar 2025
How To Love A Black Hole by Rebecca Fishow (@ConiumPress). Reviewed by D.W. White. necessaryfiction.com/reviews…
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March 4th. Get it!
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New year, new reading period! CONIUM is open through the end of February, 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).
Text-based graphic reading "Jan. 1st, 2025 Conium Press manuscript submissions are officially open."

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Pre-orders on sale now for the limited-edition hardcover for Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole." Reserve your copy at most major retailers!
Photograph of the book "How to Love a Black Hole," with text that reads "coming March 2025 from Conium Press"

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