How Slowly, How Slow

Howl slowly, howl! Bring on the dogs of war and let them pull us from our couches, harry us to the printer, drop off a print file. Not quite at that stage, but the next issue of LCRW slowly accumulates. It even has a cover, art by Christa Donner. The...

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Oct 20, 2025
Light Academia(!)

Sarah Rees Brennan’s In Other Lands is tucked comfortably at the end of Jenny Hamilton’s Dark Academia: A Starter Pack (Tart, Awad, Samatar, & more) in the NYTimes answering the subtitled question “Is there such a thing as light academia?” “In Ot...

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Oct 15, 2025
CC

I’ve been enjoying the Consortium Corner microinterviews with various Consortium people as they celebrate their 40th anniversary. We signed on with them in 2007, latecomers!, after starting with Pathway Book Service for a couple of years and then SCB...

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Oct 07, 2025
LCRW + a Chapbook

Thank you Jenny Z. for asking if we offered LCRW subscriptions with a chapbook but without chocolate. My answer: Um, no. For some reason when I made that little list of serious-to-silly offerings some time ago (and even during the many remakings) it...

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Aug 29, 2025
Kindling is a World Fantasy Award finalist

Congratulations to all the finalists for the World Fantasy Awards, especially Kathleen Jennings, whose debut collection, Kindling, is one of five finalists for Best Collection. Kelly, the sole woman, and I — one of six men — are finalists for “Specia...

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Jul 22, 2025
Out Went LCRW 50

With world temperatures rising, and soon the seas, we talked about dropping the LCRW+chocolate option but maybe instead I can get it together and publish the two issues in November and February so that no one gets a fabulous and delicious but melted...

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Jul 21, 2025
Cast Spells Punch Nazis

Kelly and I have been talking about this one for a while and today, since the new LCRW is at the printer and I am busted because I ran an errand (woo) this morning, I put it up on Bonfire. All monies got to BINC, who do quiet and absolutely necessary...

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Jun 05, 2025
Edit, Make, Mail

LCRW 50 is at the printer. How will it be mailed out? Slowly! The post Edit, Make, Mail first appeared on Small Beer Press.

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Jun 05, 2025
Stepping up the Joy

Sharing more joy for Jennifer Hudak as her story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 will be reprinted in this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams along with 19 stories which originally appeare...

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May 19, 2025