Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 50

LCRW 50: a b&w stapled zine that I'm hoping democracy in the USA will outlast but I am no longer 100% confident it will.

50 issues in 50 years would be pretty good but,we blew past that at top speed and accomplished 50 in barely 29 years. Why not 25 years hobgoblinned stuck-in-the-2-issues-per-year mindset ask and I'd just like to point out that there were four years in there that I bet they can't remember either. Four stories, four poems, had a symmetry but we added more poems. Don't miss our cooking columnist, Nicole Kimberling, on listening and offering food.

This issue's cover spotlights the writers whose work appeared in the first 49 issues.

Celebrating

Jennifer Hudak’s story from LCRW 48, “The Witch Trap,” was a Nebula Award finalist & will be reprinted in the Best American SF&F; Elwin Cotman (Dance on Saturday) received a Whiting Award; Kij Johnson’s crowdfunder for RiverBank, an RPG, raised more than twice the goal; the UK edition of Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters came out; Kathleen Jennings’ collection Kindling is shortlisted for the Locus & Aurealis Awards.

Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 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 in Northampton, MA. Subscriptions: $28/4 issues (see page 36 of this issue for options). Please make checks to Small Beer Press. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO.

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