The Conium Review

11/06/2025

CONIUM will be exhibiting at the Twin Cities Book Festival this Saturday (Nov. 8th)! Come find us at Table 619. Author signings with James R. Gapinski at 1:00pm and Rebecca Fishow at 2:00pm. https://twincitiesbookfestival.com/

We're also co-hosting an offsite after party with Paranoid Tree Press. We'll be at Dual Citizen Brewing in St. Paul starting at 7:00pm. Readers include Gwen E. Kirby, Sagirah Shahid, Kara Lewis, Rebecca Fishow, Cristeta, Boarini, and James R. Gapinski. https://dcbc.com/event/shapes-sound-literary-event/

10/21/2025

Midwest book tour events this week for "The Museum of Future Mistakes," out now from BOA Editions!

October 21st, 7:00pm-8:00pm at Madison Street Books in Chicago, Illinois (in conversation with Mallory Smart of Maudlin House). https://madstreetbooks.com/events/3426320251021

October 24th, 5:00pm-7:00pm at Lion's Tooth in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. https://www.lionstoothmke.com/events.html

October 25th, 11:00am-1:00pm at WordHaven BookHouse, LLC in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. https://www.wordhaven-bookhouse.com/new-events/james-r-gapinski

10/15/2025

CONIUM editor James R. Gapinski continues their book tour for THE MUSEUM OF FUTURE MISTAKES at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, WA!

Friday, October 17th. Includes a brief reading, a conversation with Seattle writer and Hugo House instructor Carolyn Abram. Q&A and book signing to follow. Hope to see you there: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/48264

Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

10/09/2025

CONIUM's managing editor, James R. Gapinski, celebrates the launch of their new collection, "The Museum of Future Mistakes," tonight at Powell's Books, Inc. on Hawthorne Blvd in Portland, OR! James will share an excerpt and be discussing the book with novelist Alissa Hattman. Q&A and book signing to follow. https://www.powells.com/events/james-r-gapinski-in-conversation-with-alissa-hattman-10-9-25

BOA Editions

10/09/2025

Tonight! Join Rebecca Fishow and Anne K. Yoder at Madison Street Books in Chicago to celebrate the release of "How to Love a Black Hole," available now in paperback.

https://madstreetbooks.com/events/3506920251009

03/07/2025

"How to Love a Black Hole," by Rebecca Fishow 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: https://www.loverseyepress.com/general-8

01/06/2025

New year, new reading period! CONIUM is open from January 1st through February 28th, 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: https://www.coniumpress.com/guidelines

12/20/2024

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 book retailers:

https://bookshop.org/a/88673/9781942387220

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1942387229

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/how-to-love-a-black-hole-rebecca-fishow/1146568245?ean=9781942387220

05/31/2024

Next Conium title in the works! Morghen Tidd's "houses we die in" will be released in early 2025. Most likely in February, but exact timeline still TBD.

This chapbook contains a triptych of experimental stories, each exploring how grief rests itself inside our bodies and our homes.

Morghen Tidd holds is a former-teacher-turned-bartender-turned-grant-writer and lives in Maine with her two parrots and partner. Her debut short story collection 'girl thing' is out by Long Day Press.

Watch for future updates, and learn more at https://www.coniumpress.com/houses-we-die-in

03/10/2024

Still open for submissions through 3/15/24! Full guidelines here (and should be obvious, but please read the guidelines...seems like a higher-than-usual ratio of writers who barely glanced at the guidelines this time around).

Submission Guidelines General InformationConium Press is a boutique fiction publisher with a limited catalog. We typically work on a single book at a time. Each year’s publishing decisions are determined based on the submission pool, available budget, and editorial workload.We believe books come i...

03/08/2024

The core elements of our new website are up and running now! Still working on creating some more detailed pages to showcase books in the backlist, and those will come online in a day or two.

CONIUMa publisher of innovative fiction Available now from CONIUM This Tenuous Atmosphereby Maria S. Picone This Tenuous Atmosphere is a linked series of surreal, speculative fictions. This innovative and lyrical narrative follows Asia, a Korean girl who becomes a hybrid spacecraft and goes to live....

03/06/2024

The CONIUM website is currently undergoing maintenance.

While we're upgrading, the most essential stuff for any small press (buying books and submitting manuscripts) is still possible and we've got those links posted on our landing page: https://www.coniumpress.com/