Decorative text over a white background reads "Find Conium Press at the Twin Cities Book Festival, table 619, November 8th, Union Depot in St. Paul, MN."

Decorative text over a white background reads "Sale prices and book bundle offers! Plus author signings: 1:00pm, James R. Gapinski, author of The Museum of Future Mistakes; 2:00pm, Rebecca Fishow, author of How to Love a Black Hole. Table 619, November 8th, Union Depot in St. Paul, MN."

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

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...

Author Event with James R. Gapinski | Madison Street Books

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...

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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:
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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. ❤️

Graphic advertising “How to Love a Black Hole,” by Rebecca Fishow, available now from CONIUM Press. Text also mentions a launch event on October 9th, 2025 at 7:00pm at Madison Street Books in Chicago. The advertised book cover features a cockroach on a white circle.

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! 🎉🎊

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Flyer advertising an event for How to Love a Black Hole, a new book by Rebecca Fishow. Event date is Oct 9th, 2025 at 7:00pm at Madison Street Books in Chicago, IL.

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.

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This is a lovely, fun and super quick read especially if you are a cat person. Definitely recommend.
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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…

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 ...

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...

"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!
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Photo of two books: “We Are Still Here,” by Emily Koon and “Girl & Flame,” by Melissa Reddish.

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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Photo of the CONIUM Press table at AWP 2025

Final day at #awp25. Discounts on everything. Don’t make me carry these books back home! Table T937.

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Trista Hurley Waxali’s book, A Smoke Stained Cab.

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).

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Got $30? You could turn that into 3 books! Table T937 at #awp25

Photo of the book “How to Love a Black Hole”

Photo of the book, “The Butter House”

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 LA skyline at night

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 CONIUM booth at the AWP bookfair

Table “T937” at #awp25 is Los Angeles.

Come buy some books!

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.

Flyer advertising The Lover's Eye Press Reading Series, with readings from Shirley Stephenson, Rebecca Fishow, and Margaret Hawkins. March 9th, 5:00 to 7:00pm at the Rare Nest Gallery in Chicago.

"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

Flyer for a reading on March 4th, 2025 at 6:00pm at Madison Street Books in Chicago, IL.

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. 🎉🍾

Photo of the short story collection, “How to Love a Black Hole,” by Rebecca Fishow

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-...

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

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

Photograph of the book "How to Love a Black Hole," with text that reads "coming March 2025 from Conium Press"

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

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How to Love a Black Hole: Stories Amazon.com: How to Love a Black Hole: Stories: 9781942387220: Fishow, Rebecca: Books

Just in time for rampant consumerism season, pre-orders of Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole" are now available (releases March 4th, 2025): amazon.com/dp/1942387229

bookshop.org/a/88673/9781...

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-lov...

Text-based graphic advertising release dates for Rebecca Fishow's "How to Love a Black Hole." March 4th, 2025 for the hardcover. October 7th, 2025 for the paperback.

Official release dates for "How to Love a Black Hole," by Rebecca Fishow, with two editions! Hardcover March 4th, 2025 with launch party at #AWP25. Paperback on October 7th, 2025.

Pre-orders for the limited-edition hardcover will be available soon!

www.coniumpress.com/how-to-love-...

Heads-up. Almost done reading the last few manuscripts from last reading period. That means anyone still waiting for a reply will get one any day now. It also means I'll probably re-open the queue and start reading new stuff in November!

You know how those Publishers Marketplace “deal reports” use oddly coded language about money like how it was “a nice deal” or a “good deal” and whatnot? Just once, I wanna see one that declares proudly that it was a “shit deal.”

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In dark times such as these (Verizon network down), I'd like to post a friendly reminder that physical books still work off-grid. Get one here: bookshop.org/shop/conium