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Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 36

This electronical edition was shot into the sky, bounced off the moon, and floated gently into the internet. There are names you may know and, excitingly, names you may not. This zine: always and forever a good read. Here: Two Poems. There: Three Poems of the Abyss. New fiction from Maria Romasco Moore, Leslie Wilber, Howard Waldrop, Izzy Wasserstein, and James Sallis — who returns to LCRW for the first time since LCRW #14. Nicole Kimberling's column "Sweet, Sweet Side Dish" might be about what you're thinking of, if you're thinking of eggplant. Those two, three, three — and then one more — poems are from Holly Day, Juan Martinez, Catherine Rockwood, and Michael Werner. We stretched out the backpages and included a bonus story from a collection we published within the last five years.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 37

In LCRW 39 your neighbor’s secrets are exposed. Yours too, sorry. Whereas in this here LCRW 38, it is the pure fictive product poured upon the page, dried in the sun, and brought to you by the lovely people at your local indie bookstore. Then we take that dried paper page and feed it gently into the ebookulator which produces this ebook for you, your very own readerly self.

This is Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 38, July 2018. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731487. 

Print edition text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. (On your ereader you can probably choose your own font.)

LCRW has sometimes been subtitled An Occasional Outburst and is usually published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw · twitter.com/smallbeerpress

The print edition is printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). 

Subscriptions: $20/4 issues (see page 45 of the print edition for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. 

This issue is the first to be available at Moon Palace Books (3032 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis MN 55406 · moonpalacebooks.com) yay & thanks, mighty indie booksellers! 

Contents © 2018 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration “Metsona” © 2018 by Joamette Gill (joamettegil.com). Thank you, generous authors and artists. 

In among these dark days we celebrate Juan Martinez’s Best Worst American: Stories winning the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Debut Award for Speculative Fiction. Yay! Also: Jeffrey Ford’s A Natural History of Hell: Stories was a finalist for the Ohioana Award and Sofia Samatar’s Tender: Stories is a finalist for the British Fantasy Award. 

Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Peace.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 38

This is the issue in which we promised your neighbor’s secrets would be exposed. Your secrets too. So sorry to be the bearer of bad news: the secrets, they have been exposed. Check CNN right now. Or, look under that thing at the back of your fridge. The list of neighborhood secrets should be there on a very small piece of paper we are very proud to have folded 12 times. Some people find the 9th through 12th folds difficult, but these wristlets, they really make the difference. Fiction, poetry, a little nonfiction (including a lovely recipe for pickled kumquats), and an absurd amount of hope and despair.

About

This is Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 39, June 2019. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731579. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress @ gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $20/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 39

The contents of this zine were produced under pressure but contain a short break and distraction from the everyday.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 40

This is issue Forty (Extraordinary) One of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet which is being published in June of 2020 and is being sent out free to subscribers as a bonus to add joy to this daily more complicated world. (Contributors were paid the usual rates.)

Readers who’d like to support the zine are encouraged to subscribe, mais oui, but also to donate to Color of Change, buy books through Black-owned bookstores such as Frugal Bookstore, and bookstores damaged or closed in the civil unrest as we try and change our world, including DreamHaven, Uncle Hugo’s, Magers & Quinn, and Moon Palace.

Read some excellent short fiction and reset your weary head. A handful of stories by authors known and unknown.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 41

LCRW 42. After all this time, here’s the answer? Or: a fabulous and topical new novella from Sarah Langan with a few more delights added.

This is the latest issue of our twice-annual zine — 25% of subscribers (not too many in warmer climes) choose the chocolate version — in which we have fictions, poetries, a cooking column (extra useful in these times), and sometimes a few odd other things.

Peace!

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 42, November 2020. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731791. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Subscriptions: $20/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2020 the authors. All rights reserved. Thank you authors, artists, and readers. In reasons to celebrate Frances Rowat's "Ink, and Breath, and Spring" (LCRW 40) will be reprinted in Rich Horton’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2020 Edition; Sarah Pinsker’s collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea: Stories is a World Fantasy Award finalist and is back at the printer. Nathan Ballingrud's collection North American Lake Monsters is being re-released in a TV tie-in edition for the new Hulu series based on it, Monsterland. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. No Justice: No Peace.

About these Authors

Sarah Langan holds an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU and an MFA from Columbia University, and is a three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award. She’s the author of three previous novels, including The Keeper, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and Good Neighbors, forthcoming from Atria in 2021.

Vandana Singh was born and raised mostly in New Delhi, India and currently lives in the United States near Boston, where she professes physics and writes. Her short stories have appeared in numerous venues and several Best of Year anthologies including the Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy and she is a recipient of the Carl Brandon Parallax award. She is the author of the ALA Notable book Younguncle Comes to Town and the short story collections The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet and Other Stories and Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 42

Four score and three issues ago this zine did not exist. Two score 
and three issues ago LCRW popped into being just like the big bang — but
 with less burning hot plasma and fewer planets forming. The formation included a twice-yearly space for fiction, poetry, and later, when the spinning slowed enough not to spill everything, a cooking column from Nicole Kimberling.

Contributor Bios for LCRW 43:

Alisa Alering lives in Indiana where she reports on innovations in science and technology. Her rather unscientific fiction has appeared in Podcastle, Clockwork Phoenix IV, and Flash Fiction Online,
 among others and has been recognized by the Italo Calvino Prize. She is
 currently at work on a novel about two sisters prepping for the 
apocalypse in 1980s Appalachia.

Leah Bobet is a novelist, editor, and 
critic whose novels have won the Sunburst, Copper Cylinder, and Aurora 
Awards, been selected for the Ontario Library Association’s Best Bets 
program, and shortlisted for the Cybils and the Andre Norton Award. Her 
short fiction has appeared in multiple Year’s Best anthologies and been 
transformed into choral work, and is taught in high school and 
university classrooms in Canada, Australia, and the US. She is guest 
poetry editor for Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice‘s
 2021 issue. She lives in Toronto, where she makes jam, builds civic 
engagement spaces, and plants both tomatoes and trees. Visit her at leahbobet.com.

Erica Clashe lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Ommie. She’s a professional gay auntie. This is her first published work. Find her at ericaclashe.com.

Gillian Daniels writes, works, and haunts 
the streets of the Boston area in Massachusetts. She grew up in 
Cleveland, Ohio and left shortly after attending the 2011 Clarion 
Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Since then, her poetry and short 
fiction have appeared in Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies,
 among more than twenty-five other publications. She serves as custodian
 to one (1) ginger cat who likes to chew the corners of her books when 
she doesn’t feed him breakfast right away.

Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her Australian Gothic debut Flyaway (Tor.com) and her poetry debut Travelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion (Brain
 Jar Press) were published in 2020. She has won two Ditmars for her 
short stories and been shortlisted for the Eugie Foster Memorial Awards.
 As an illustrator (this story began as a series of pictures exhibited 
at Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis), she has been shortlisted four times
 for the World Fantasy Awards, as well as once for the Hugos and the 
Locus Awards, and has won several Ditmars.

Jim Marino’s stories are published or forthcoming in Apex Magazine and the Alaska Quarterly Review, and his short humor has appeared on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. He makes his living teaching Shakespeare.

Zack Moss is a writer of weird fiction with an MFA from Western Washington University. His stories have appeared in Alimentum: the Literature of Food, The Crambo, and Zymbol, among a few others.

Quinn Ramsay is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. His prose and poetry have been published in Paragraphiti, From Glasgow to Saturn, Santa Clara Review, The Magnolia Review, and Gemini, among others. He has been a recipient of the Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing, and a co-editor and designer for Williwaw: an Anthology of the Marvellous.

Jessy Randall’s poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Analog, Asimov’s, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. Her most recent book is How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is http://bit.ly/JessyRandall.

Joanne Rixon lives in the shadow of an 
active volcano with a rescue chihuahua named after a dinosaur, and is an
 organizer with the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers 
Meetup. Her poetry has appeared in GlitterShip, her book reviews in the Seattle Times and the Cascadia Subduction Zone Literary Quarterly, and her short speculative fiction in venues including Terraform, Fireside, and Liminal Stories. You can find her yelling about poetry and politics on twitter @JoanneRixon

Anne Sheldon is a librarian and storyteller in Silver Spring, MD. Her work has appeared in Cascadia Subduction Zone, The Lyric, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other magazines. Aqueduct Press has published two books of her verse, The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor and The Bone Spindle.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 43, June 
2021. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731968. 

Print edition text: Bodoni Book. 
Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. 

LCRW is (usually) published in June and 
November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 
01027 · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. 
twitter.com/smallbeerpress

Subscriptions: $24/4 issues. More options available, including chocolate, of course. 

Library & institutional 
subscriptions: EBSCO. 

LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through 
weightlessbooks.com, &c. 

Contents © 2021 the authors. All rights 
reserved. Cover illustration “Black-and-White Monkey” © 2021 by 
Catherine Byun (catherinebyun.com). 

Thank you authors, artists, and readers. 

In reasons to celebrate Elwin Cotman’s collection Dance on Saturday
 was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist. Please send submissions (we are 
always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers 
and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43

Who is ready for the fourty-eleventh issue of LCRW? It has stories, poems, a cooking column, & a bonus novel excerpt.

Cometh the hour

cometh the zine

but wait

it is written

that a zine

must sometimes be delay’d

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 44, December 2021. Edited by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. Proofreader: Franchesca Viaud. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732033. Print edition text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $24/4 issues. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents © 2021 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration "Mother Cat" © 2021 by Ashley Wong (ashlwong.com). Thank you authors, artists, and readers. Celebrating! Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria appearing on NPR’s 50 Favorite SF&F Books of the Past Decade; Kim Scott’s Taboo receiving a Kate Challis Ruth Adeney Koori Award (RAKA) commendation; and Vandana Singh being selected as a Climate Imagination Fellows by ASU’s Center for Science. Petra Mayer, RIP. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 44

May: gone. June: gone. July: moving fast. Here are gods, snakes, death, and demons. On the lighter, crunchier side: carrots and apples. Twice a year this zine slips out into this world, less internationally than it used to. Maybe I just need to stand at airports and offer it as in-flight reading? Maybe I can persuade an airline to make it their in-flight magazine? How refreshing it would be to pull LCRW out of the seat pocket. Since LCRW only comes out twice a year, that leaves 10 months to be filled in with other zines. Airlines, ping me. We can make this work.

In the meantime, good things are here.

Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link.

This 2 minute 45 second issue is Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 45 and is going out in August 2022. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732071. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June (. . .) and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 · smallbeerpress@gmail.com · smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpress · Printed at Paradise Copies (paradisecopies.com · 413-585-0414). Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see page 13 of the print issue or PDF for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. 

Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.

LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. 

Contents © 2022 the authors. All rights reserved.

Cover illustration “Nausicaa” © 2020 by Ashanti Fortson (ashantifortson.com).

Celebrating! Zen Cho’s LA Times Ray Bradbury Book Award for Spirits Abroad and Isabel Yap’s Ladies of Horror Awards for her story “Syringe” and her collection Never Have I Ever. We brought two titles out as ebooks recently: Susan Stinson’s novel Venus of Chalk and Howard Waldrop’s collection Dream Factories and Radio Pictures. RIP Angélica Gorodischer and Geoffrey Goodwin.

Since December 2021 Gavin has been on the couch/working from home (not in the office or shop) with something along the lines of CFS or post-viral fatigue so everything Small Beer has & will be slowed down for the foreseeable future. Thanks to Laura, Kate, Beth, Franchie, Diya, & Jess at Book Moon for shipping LCRW (&c) and running the bookshop like a dream. 
We’re switching websites and point of sales systems at Book Moon so your orders and patience are much appreciated.

Please send submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks again, authors, artists, readers.

Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 45

LCRW 47, the May, the June, the July, the August, the September of this year issue. 

Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link. 

As in my LCRW 46 note, I am chronically ill and limited 
compared to the previous times. I’m still planning (hoping? how 
zine-esque of me) on two issues of this zine this year. But we have two 
books coming, Anya’s (OKPsyche) and Kij’s (The Privilege of the Happy Ending) — two writers from the Twin Cities, how 
unexpected — which is enough to keep me busy and then Kathleen Jennings’s 
January collection, Kindling. Then next February Random House is 
publishing Kelly’s huge immersive, amazing novel, The Book of Love. 
Can’t wait to see it out in the world. — Gavin

ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618732156. Text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com |smallbeerpress.com/lcrw.

Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: $24/4 issues (see page 26 or our website for options) — the chocolate option is very popular but the marmite option is gaining ground. Please make checks to Small Beer Press. 

Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. 

LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through the lovely weightlessbooks.com, &c. 

Contents © 2023 the authors. All rights reserved. 

Cover illustration “Leo Moon” © 2023 Holly Link. All rights reserved. 

Celebrating: a UK edition of Zen Cho’s collection, Spirits Abroad. A World Fantasy nomination for the press. Redemption in Indigo being bought by Random House so that Karen Lord can have all her books under one roof. Starred reviews for new books from Anya DeNiro (OKPsyche) and Kij Johnson (The Privilege of the Happy Ending). Reprinting Angélica Gorodischer’s Kalpa Imperial and Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands. 

Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks again, authors, artists, readers.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 47

A surprisingly quick turnaround from the previous issue, mere months,
 a blink in the (imagined) eye of a tree that one day may become a 
future issue of this zine. The chocolate has barely been bought but many
 stories have been read and these two (just two? one of them is quite
 long) rose to the top of our particular list. We have a suitcase full 
of stories to look in for the next issue which should be out next May.

This issue features Jessica Bromley Bartram’s nonchalant individual 
on, as are we all, their way somewhere. May the place we’re going be 
filled with excellent fiction, unexpected poetry and art, a helping hand
 from a fabulous cook, chocolate for those so inclined, and peace in our
 time.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet issue number 49, December 2024. Made by Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link. 

Memorization not expected but applauded. LCRW is (usually) published 
in June & November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, 
Easthampton, MA 01027 | info@smallbeerpress.com | 
smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. Printed by Paradise Copies. Subscriptions: 
$24/4 issues (see website or page 17 of the paper edition for options). Please make checks
 to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.

DRM-free ebooks available from the lovely weightlessbooks.com.

Contents © 2024 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration © 2024 Jessica Bromley Bartram. All rights reserved.

Please send fiction and poetry submissions (especially weird and 
interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline 
requests, &c. to the address above. Thanks authors, artists, 
readers.

Celebrating: Anya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsyche received the Blurred Boundaries Award from the Subjective Chaos Kind of Awards.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 49

LCRW is an occasional outburst of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and chocolate.

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