Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 50

May 2025

What is time?/June/2025. What are pages? Imagine it will be about 60. Ebook ISBN: What are International Standard Book Numbers? Also, 9781618732187.

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.

Beginnings and still building. 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, it has a symmetry that will be ruined when more are added.

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

Fiction

S. Woodson, Dog in a Garden
L. H. Adams, The Path to Pembroke
Jessy Randall, Remedial Kissing Class
Guan Un, White Band
Marie Vibbert, The Summer Kids and the Gemini
Shaun Cammack, Graceless Creatures

Notsofiction

Gavin J. Grant, 50 Not Quite Out
Nicole Kimberling, The Limit of Words
Some recent reads
About These Authors
Without Which Support from, &c.

Poetry

Marge Piercy,

Frost on its way south; TV was right for once; The year is new but I am not; One rabbit less
Neile Graham, The Goddess of the Deep Dive; What is Ether and What is Not

Art

Dawn Kimberling, Photo

Cover

Contributors Issues 1–49

Celebrating

Jennifer Hudak’s story from LCRW 48, “The Witch Trap,” is 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.

Masthead & colophon

Made by
Gavin J. Grant
& Kelly Link.

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Contents © 2025 the authors. 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.

About Yon Authors

Ms. Adams spent several decades in the environmental consulting world. She lives in North Carolina,
where the many effects of climate change are a constant presence. When not writing she stares at trees, and her work has been published in Neither Fish Nor Foul.

Shaun Cammack is a writer from Western North Carolina.

Neile Graham stepped down from writer wrangling for Clarion West Writers Workshop a few years back and is soon to retire from her university day job. She plans to spend her time taking forest and beach walks, writing more poems, and finally completing revisions of the four novels languishing on her computer. See neilegraham.com for more poems and too much info.

Nicole Kimberling has cooked so much food in her lifetime that she’s developed a philosophy around nearly every aspect of it. When she’s not putting hot meals on the table she can be found either running Blind Eye Books or procrastinating until the last possible second to finish her most recent novel. You find her on IG @the_nicole_kimberling

Marge Piercy has published 20 poetry collections, most recently, On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light, and seventeen novels including Sex Wars. PM Press reissued Vida, Dance the Eagle to Sleep; and collections The Cost of Lunch, Etc. and My Body, My Life. She has read at over 500 venues here and abroad.

Jessy Randall’s poems and stories have appeared in Asimov’s, LCRW, Nature, and Scientific American. In 2025, MIT will publish her new book, The Path of Most Resistance: Poems on Women in Science. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is bit.ly/JessyRandall.

Guan Un is an Australian-Chinese writer of speculative fiction based in Sydney. His work has been featured in LeVar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy Vol 2, Strange Horizons, and more. A former theology student and luggage salesman, he lives with his family, a dog named after a tiger, and a non-sentient sourdough starter, and is not currently betrothed to any celestial objects. You can find him at @thisisguan.bsky.social or guanun.com.

Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author Marie Vibbert’s short fiction has appeared over 90 times in top magazines such as Nature, Analog, and Clarkesworld, and been translated into Czech, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Her debut novel, Galactic Hellcats, was long listed by the British Science Fiction Award and her work has been called “everything science fiction should be” by the Oxford Culture Review. She also writes poetry, comics, and computer games. By day she is a computer programmer in Cleveland, Ohio.

S. Woodson lives in Virginia and was previously published in LCRW 38. You can find her older Twine games and other work at citrushistrix.itch.io.