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2016 Seersucker Writers Workshop

The 2016 Seersucker Writers Workshop is now accepting applications. Our recent contest judge, Amelia Gray, is one of the visiting faculty. Zach Powers, a recent contributor to The Conium Review, is also one of this year’s special guests! The other faculty and guest writers include Arna Hemenway, Patricia Lockwood, Chad Faries, Sjohnna McCray, Alexis Orgera, and Gale Marie Thompson.
The Seersucker Writers Workshop is a program of Seersucker Liver, a literary nonprofit in Savannah, Georgia designed to promote the local literary community through reading performances and workshops, featuring national, regional, and local writers. The workshop runs from February 3rd to February 7th, 2016 in downtown Savannah. More details and registration info are available on the Seersucker Live website.
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Flash Sale: 50% off “The Conium Review: Vol. 3” this weekend!

The Conium Review: Vol. 3 is just $6.00 (with free shipping) this weekend! This is not a back issue. Volume 3 is our current issue, with a normal list price of $12.00. The 50% discount lasts from Friday, July 24th to Sunday July 26th.

The Conium Review has been called “spectacular” by Small Press Reviews, and Prick of the Spindle says we’re “raising a unique voice.” The Review Review also notes “A reader will be entertained and satisfied with the variety of storytelling while the writer will be encouraged and hopefully inspired.”

Don’t miss this chance to snag a discounted copy.

The Conium Review Vol. 3 is now available!

The Conium Review Volume 3The Conium Review: Volume 3 is available for purchase!  Support small press publishing, and get a copy directly through our website. The issue is available as a paperback, and we also have a snazzy collector’s edition box set for sale.

You can also find copies of the paperback at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble’s website, and elsewhere on the Internet.

Copies hit brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves in the next couple days (or weeks, in some cases).Past publications have been stocked at the Big Idea Bookstore Cooperative (Pittsburgh, PA), Broadway Books (Portland, OR), Reading Frenzy (Portland, OR), Housing Works Bookstore Care (New York, NY), Quimby’s Bookstore (Chicago, IL), Open Books (Chicago, IL), and Woodland Pattern Book Center (Milwaukee, WI). This issue will appear at many of our usual bookstore partners, and we hope to expand to other independent bookstore locations very soon.

For cash-strapped lit lovers, Vol. 3 will also be available at several libraries, including the Mellow Pages Library (Brooklyn, NY), the University of Wisconsin Memorial Library (Madison, WI), the Library of Congress (Washington, DC) ,and elsewhere.

This volume of The Conium Review features new fiction from Olivia Ciacci, Tom Howard, D. V. Klenak, Jan LaPerle, Zach Powers, Christine Texeira, and Meeah Williams.  In these eight strange and surreal narratives, you’ll find a company that sells night-in-shining-armor-style happy endings, a boy with a second person trapped inside of him, a contemporary fable with a chickadee protagonist, and more. The pieces include flash fiction, short stories, and novella-length fiction.