LCRW is a paper-based fiction (&c) delivery system usually published twice a year.

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LCRW is an Occasional Outburst, an arrow shot into the future, a harbinger, a break from the daily meh, a lightness, a laugh, an incredibly serious archiving of a moment, a cinder from an old star set to light once more in the hands of readers.

LCRW is also a 1/2-legal-sized paper zine, saddle-stitched, running about 52 – 64 pages (sometimes 61), printed in black ink on white or ivory 30% recycled paper with a cardstock cover. We generally publish it in June and November. We — Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link — kicked it off in 1996 and contributors since have included writers whose names you may know (Karen Joy Fowler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Molly Gloss, Carol Emshwiller, Jeffrey Ford, Ted Chiang) and many more whose name you may not — and that there finding and reading new-to-us voices is one of the joys of existence.

We like reading short stories and eating chocolate and are very happy to supply the best in both to readers. And, er, chocolate eaters. Does this read clearly? No. Fortunately we have better writers in the zine than we (by “we” I mean me, Gavin) have writing about the zine.

Moving? Please email your old and new addresses to us at info@smallbeerpress.com, thank you.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 22

    Carol Emshwiller, Charlie Anders, Eileen Gunn, Maureen F. McHugh, David J. Schwartz, & More.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 21

    Carol Emshwiller, Alice Sola Kim, Matthew Cheney, Kirstin Allio, Benjamin Parzybok

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    Lady Churchill’s Robot* Wristlet No. 20

    Marly Youmans, Anil Menon, Edward McEneely, Steven Bratman, Michael Hartford, M. Brock Moorer, Laura Evans, Amelia Beamer, Meghan McCarron, & Jon Hansen.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 19

    An issue that wrestles with itself. Or, has wrestlers on the cover. Still coming from zinedom with a b&w cover, fiction, even prosetry. Or at least poetry.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 18

    David J. Schwartz, John Schoffstall, Becca De La Rosa, Scot Peacock, Stephanie Parent, Will McIntosh, E. Catherine Tobler, Matthew Lee Bain, Peter Bebergal, Sarah Micklem, Angela Slatter, Jeannette Westwood, Fred Coppersmith, Michael Emmons, Veronica Schanoes.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 17

    Seana Graham, Philip Raines and Harvey Welles, Christien Gholson, Alette J. Willis, Deborah Roggie, David Connerley Nahm, Diana Pharaoh Francis, John Brown, Marly Youmans, Peter Dabbene.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 16

    Eric Gregory, Cara Spindler, Yoon Ha Lee, Scott Geiger, Kat Meads , Eric Schaller , John Kessel, Matthew Kirby, David Lunde, Christina Manucy, Jenny Ashley, Sean Melican, Michaela Kahn, Sandra Lindow, Chris Fox, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gwenda Bond, Tom Berger.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 15

    Karen Russell, Sarah Micklem, Bruce McAllister, John Trey, Benjamin Rosenbaum & Paul Melko, Michael Northrop, Ellen M. Rhudy, Sarah Monette, Geoffrey Goodwin, Richard Parks, Stepan Chapman, Mark Rich, Amy Sisson, Neal Chandler.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 14

    Douglas Lain, David Nahm, Susan Mosser, James Sallis, Richard Butner, Jay Lake, Matthew Latkiewicz, J. Cox, Devon Monk, V. Anne Arden, Bret Fetzer, Deborah Roggie, David Blair, Trent Walters, Sally Bayley, William Smith, Matthew Latkiewicz, Christoph Meyer, Gwenda Bond

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 13

    David J. Schwartz, Leslie What, Tim Pratt, F. Brett Cox, Veronica Schanoes, Hannah Bowen, Sarah Monette, Geoffrey H. Goodwin, etc etc.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 12

    Richard Parks, David Erik Nelson, Nick Mamatas, Richard Butner, Philip Raines & Harvey Welles, L. Timmel Duchamp, Cara Spindler, et al.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 11

    Theodora Goss, Neil Williamson, Sarah Monette, John Rubins, Christine Klingbiel, Minsoo Kang, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Molly Gloss, L. Timmel Duchamp, Leslie Burmeister, William Smith, Nan Fry, David Moles, Kathryn Cramer, Mark Rich

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 10

    Brian Conn, Steven Bratman, Barbara Krasnoff, Greg van Eekhout, Jeffrey Ford, Barbara Gilly, Geoffrey H. Goodwin, Amber van Dyk, Christopher Barzak, Charles Coleman Finlay, L. Timmel Duchamp, William Smith

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 9

    Eliot Fintushel, Tim Pratt, Mark Rich, Beth Adele Long, Gay Partington Terry, Leslie What, Amy Beth Forbes, Barbara Gilly, Christopher Rowe, Mark Rudolph, Darrell Schweitzer, Theodora Goss, L. Timmel Duchamp, Margaret Muirhead, William Smith

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 8

    No. 8 June 2001 Not a quiet little number. No flab — despite a long winter spent reading zines and eating bon bons. Coming with a chocolate bar if you subscribed at Level 3 (does that sound like Multi-Level Marketers or Dianetiscists?). But Level 3 is, happily, the most popular level. Maybe it’ll catch on and […]

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 7

    Jeffrey Ford, Ellen Klages, John Trey, James Sallis, and the usual exceptional extras: the list of my recent breakfasts (powered and non-powered), possible futures for ex-presidential candidates, and last but not least, well, maybe it was, but I’ve gone and forgotten it.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 6

    Dan Cashman, Karen Joy Fowler, Gavin J. Grant, Nalo Hopkinson, Kelly Link, James Sallis, Sir Walter Scott, Lucy Snyder

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 5

    volume 3, number 2 Poetry, Fictions, Essays, Art and so on and so forth, the usual mix of eclectica. Introduction In the underworld there are places that are dark, scary, some few resemble tales in this zine. None of them resemble Hiroshima or Nagasaki in August 1945. None of them are bright with the light […]

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 4

    Poetry, Fictions, Essays, Art and so on and so forth, the usual mix of eclectica.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 3

    We had this issue fact-checked as a favor to our lawyers after the debacle with Hilaire Belloc issue one, this was their report.

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 2

    volume 1, number 2 summer 1997 Poetry, Fictions, Essays, Art and so on and so forth, the usual mix of eclectica. Our second issue contained fiction by award winning authors and damn funny writers, someday perhaps I’ll actually get some of it up here. Perhaps you should bookmark this and come back in a bit, say a year, […]

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    Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 1

    Issue 1, number 1 winter 1996 – 1997 The 26-page first issue of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet was produced through the auspices of certain large and charitable corporations in an edition of 26 copies or so. Most were given to contributors or sold at Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop. A reprint (in our by-then-standard half-legal size) was […]