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

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...

LCRW 50, (probably — everything I do is still slower than I expect) coming out next month, is our latest celebration of writers, edited by Kelly and me, to be printed in the near-ish future by our local copy shop (who have a lovely garden and great h...

LCRW at bat, 50 not out. The post Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 50 first appeared on Small Beer Press.

I am talking to the President, to the (nominal) political party he belongs to, as well as his cabinet. Tell me one good thing. Not taking vaccines away, or making food and air and water and work more dangerous; not destroying a legacy of internationa...

Excellent news: Elwin Cotman is one of ten 2025 Whiting Award Winners. There’s a good story on it in Elwin’s hometown paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Elwin has a novel coming from Scribner, The Age of Ignorance, as well as four collections of sto...

Kathleen Jennings’s Kindling: Stories has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award — “Australia’s premier speculative fiction award” — for Best Collection. The cover for Kathleen’s next novel, Honeyeater, dropped and it is worth clicking on the link....

Damn my eyes. I have seen — and ignored for a year or two too many — spreadsheets such as no zinemaker should see. I have calculated numbers no right-thinking person should know. I have stared at the Sum of all Costs and my very soul trembles before...

Karen Russell is out on tour with her new novel The Antidote wrote a great list of book recommendations for Elle. They format it so that each book is finishing the sentence “The book that . . .” and for this one the first answer was Kristen Arnett’s...

Sending our congratulations and sharing the joy that Jennifer Hudak’s story “The Witch Trap” from LCRW 48 is one of six fine finalists for the short story Nebula Award. The post Nebula Award finalist: Jennifer Hudak’s, The Witch Trap first appeared o...