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"Small Beer is
the hottest thing in publishing. It's amazing. Like learning that
Luxembourg has nuclear warheads."
-- Rick Bowes
Reviews and press
coverage
2007 -- LCRW is nominated for
a Hugo.
2006 Alan DeNiro's Skinny Dipping in
the Lake of the Dead Longlisted for the Second Annual Frank
O'Connor International Short Story Award.
-- Kate Wilhelm's Storyteller
wins the Hugo and Locus Awards.
2005 -- Nominated for the
World Fantasy Award
July 28, 2005 -- "The Book People," The Valley Advocate
2004 -- Nominated for the World
Fantasy Award
June 2004 -- Small Beer on the Rise, Publishers
Weekly
June 2004 -- Interview,
Emerald City
2003 -- Nominated for the
World Fantasy Award
July 2003 -- An Omnibus Review at Green
Man Review
Spring 2003 -- Interview
in Broken Pencil issue
21 (not online)
Jan./Feb. 2003 -- Feature article: Matrix: the news magazine
of the BSFA
January 10, 2003 -- Small
interview
(on the Wheel of Time mania page)
Sept./Oct. 2002 -- Feature
article in Poets
& Writers
July 2002 -- An interview
about Small Beer with Gavin J. Grant on RevolutionSF
Aug. 21, 2001 -- A review
of Stranger Things Happen and Meet Me in the Moon Room in
Canada's January
Magazine
July 19, 2001 --
Bookweb/Bookselling This Week, "Small
Beer Press Makes a Heady Debut"
Water
Logic
Laurie J. Marks
Endless
Things
John Crowley
Interfictions
Edited by Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss
published for the Interstitial Arts Foundation
Generation
Loss
Elizabeth Hand
Howard
Who?
by Howard Waldrop
The
Privilege of the Sword
by Ellen Kushner
- Tiptree Honor List
- Nebula Award finalist
- Romantic Times Epic Fantasy
Novel Revewers Choice Award finalist
Skinny
Dipping in the Lake of the Dead
by Alan DeNiro
Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
Reviews
- Best of the Year: Time Magazine,
Salon, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Locus, Capital Times
- Book Sense pick
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 Mothers
& Other Monsters
by Maureen F. McHugh
Reviews
- Finalist for The Story Prize
- Book Sense Notable Book
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Storyteller
by Kate Wilhelm
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Travel
Light
by Naomi Mitchison
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Mockingbird
by Sean Stewart
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Perfect
Circle
by Sean Stewart
Reviews
- Excerpted on Salon.com
- Book Sense Notable Book
- Starred review in Booklist
- World Fantasy & Nebula
Award finalist
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Trash
Sex Magic
by Jennifer Stevenson
Reviews
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Kalpa
Imperial: the greatest empire that never was
by Angélica Gorodischer
translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
Reviews
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Trampoline
Kelly Link, ed.
Reviews
- Greer Gilman's novella "A Crowd
of Bone" won World
Fantasy Award.
- Alex Irvine's short story
"Gus Dreams of Biting the Mailman" and the anthology were both
nominated.
- Richard Butner's
"Ash City Stomp" received an Honorable Mention from the
new Fountain
Award.
- Susan Mosser's
"Bumpship" will be reprinted in The Year's Best SF.
- Christopher
Barzak's Dead Boy Found" will be reprinted in The Best New
Horror.
- Karen Joy Fowler's
"King Rat" and Richard Butner's "Ash City Stomp"
are reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror.
[paperback]
[ hardcover]
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The
Mount
by Carol Emshwiller
Reviews
- Philip K. Dick Award Winner
- Impac Award Nominee
- Nebula Award Nominee
- Starred review in Publishers
Weekly
- Reprinted by Firebird
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Report
to the Men's Club and Other Stories
by Carol Emshwiller
- "Creature" won the
Nebula Award for Short Story
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Stranger Things Happen
by Kelly Link
reviews
- Firecracker Award Nominee
- "Louise's Ghost"
won the Nebula Award for Novelette
- "The Specialist's Hat"
won the World Fantasy Award
- "Travels with the Snow
Queen" won the James Tiptree, Jr., Memorial Award
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Meet
Me in the Moon Room
by Ray Vukcevich
Reviews
-- Publisher's Weekly, Booklist
Also: Locus,
F&SF, Science Fiction Chronicle, Tangent Online, January Magazine
- Philip K. Dick Award Nominee
The
Rose in Twelve Petals
by Theodora Goss
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Horses
Blow Up Dog City
by Richard Butner
- "Butner picks up the absurdities
of high-speed America and throws them back in its face, reveling
in the wild, wonderful mess he creates."
-- New
Pages
- The
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror XVIII (Datlow, Grant,
& Link, eds.) honorable mention: "The
Rules of Gambling."
- "Wry, caustic, calculated,
impulsive.... Gems of gorgeous weirdness."
-- Asimovs
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Bittersweet
Creek and Other Stories
by Christopher Rowe
- "As smooth and heady as good
Kentucky bourbon"
-- Locus
- "'Men of Renown' is a
herald of what Rowe can do best: deal with time and place without
limits."
--Tangent
Online
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Other
Cities
by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- "Throughout Other Cities,
compressed insight and wonder are compressed into but a handful
of words. This small book's crisp design and illustrations mirror
the elegance of the writing: recommended."
-- Xerography
Debt
- "Charming..."
-- Locus
- "I enthusiastically urge
you to get a copy and enjoy the exciting and odd metropolises in
Other Cities."
-- Washington
Science Fiction Association The WSFA Journal Dec. 2003
- "And though the stories
are tiny, they do not disappoint as a result of their brevity. When
you leave one fantastic destination behind, there is another city
right around the corner."
-- Tangent
Online
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Foreigners,
and Other Familiar Faces
by Mark Rich
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Lord
Stink and Other Stories
by Judith Berman
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Rossetti
Song: Four Stories
by Alex Irvine
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Five
Forbidden Things
by Dora Knez
- SF
Site
- "a fine burgeoning talent."
Asimov's
- "...one admires Knez's
gift for language. It should come as no surprise that three poems
of impeccable craftsmanship follow the five narrative prose works..."
-- Star*Line
- The (almost) title story, "The
One Forbidden Thing" and "Vaster Than Empires" received
honorable mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
(vols. XIII
& XIV,
respectively)
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4
Stories
by Kelly Link
Lady
Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
No.
18 --
No.
17 --
- John Brown's "Bright Waters"
reprinted in Best
of the Rest 4.
- Deborah Roggie's "The
Mushroom Duchess" was on the Fountain Award short
list and was reprinted in The Year's best Fantasy &
Horror: 2006, 19th Annual Edition (Gavin Grant, Kelly Link,
& Ellen Datlow, eds.)
- "Number 17 is one of the
best issues I've seen of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.Hightlights
include Philip Raines & Harvey Welles's "All the Things
She Wanted", set in a much changed Washington DC, where everyone
seems to have (at least potentially) a personal map of a different
city. A woman buys a potion that gives her what she wants, at a
certain price (first one's free!) — only to find that the
things she wants keep changing. Deborah Roggie's "The Mushroom
Duchess" is a pleasant depiction of a quite monstrous Duchess,
whose experiments with mushrooms extend to using them to control
her unwanted daughter-in-law in a nasty way. John Brown's "Bright
Waters" is a fine, long story, only barely fantastical, of
a rather ugly trader in pre-Revolution America whose efforts to
find a wife among the local Indians meets with little success. But
things change when he meets a feisty English immigrant, and also
gets some magical help from an Indian medicine woman."
—Rich Horton, Locus, 2/06
- "A feast of mystery, novelty,
and desire." -- Zine
World 23
No.
16 --
- "Three Urban Folk Tales"
by Eric Schaller reprinted in Best
of the Rest 4. and recommended by Rich Horton in Locus
("Impressive.... The three stories intertwine in surprising
ways -- lovely stuff.")
- Tangent
No.
15 --
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"Successively bridges
the literary and genre worlds with strange, off-beat tales that
venture into the fantastic while somehow remaining grounded in
the real world. This really is a magazine worth checking out,
regardless of whether you favour genre or literary fiction."
-- Kara
Kellar Bell on the Laura Hird site
- "LCRW never ceases to
amaze me. It is always a beatiful zine, but the caliber of the writing
in it is stunning."
-- Xerography Debt, 17
No.
14 --
- Douglas Lain's story "Music
Lessons" received an honorable mention from the Fountain
Award.
- Deborah Roggie's story "The
Enchanted Trousseau" from has been picked by Jonathan Strahan and
Karen Haber for their anthology, Fantasy: The Best of 2004.
- The
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror XVIII (Datlow, Grant,
& Link, eds.) honorable mentions: James
Sallis's "The Museum of Last Week," Deborah Roggie's "The
Enchanted Trousseau," and David Blair's poem Diamond"
- Tangent
- "Old as Methuselah in
small-press years, LCRW shows no signs of hardening of the arteries."
-- Asimovs
No.
13 --
- SF
Site
- "If you enjoy short fiction
and essays this one comes highly recommended."
-- Xerography Debt
- "As usual, the editorial
dynamic duo, Grant and Link, has put together an assortment of sly,
bizarre, funny, and haunting stories by writers both familiar and
unfamiliar. ...[Which] amuses, enthralls, mystifies, and moves me.
It's always a wonder to me that Grant and Link can continually bring
us such fresh, idiosyncratic talents."
-- Tangent
No.
12 --
- Harvey Welles
and Philip Raines's "The Fishie" received an Honorable
Mention from the new Fountain
Award.
- Harvey Welles
and Philip Raines's "The Fishie" reprinted in The Year's
Best Fantasy & Horror.
- "Home
and Security" by Gavin J. Grant was reprinted in the Zine
Yearbook Vol. 8
- "There's something for everyone
within these pages, which include fiction, poetry, non-fiction,
a book review, a film review, a few zine reviews, and even a piece
that could pass for a visual poem. If anything, you could argue
that the zine is a little too eclectic because it doesn't cohere
under any one theme or mood. But these days, who needs coherence?...
Many of the stories, like Jan Lars Jensen's "Happier Days", at first
seem perfect for a lazy, hung-over Sunday afternoon when you may
be more receptive to a bit of gold old nostalgia, but then take
a weird and welcome twist. Cara Spindler offers some poetic mid-zine
relief with her delightful lyricism, and Richard Butner instructs
on how to make a proper martini. (There is no such thing as a Choco-Banana
Martini.) ... This is a good zine to keep in your bag during daily
travels.
-- Broken Pencil,
23
- "Rich in elegant prose and
startling literary perspectives, Richard Parks demonstrates anew
his talent for oriental fables...[with] a medieval-Japanese ghost
story with a shock in reserve; Ursula Pflug intones a heartfelt
love song to mythic Ireland...; Jan Lars Jensen...haunts his characters
with much more recent legends, to alarming effect; and Jennifer
Rachel Baumer writes with superb lyricism of very subtle phantoms....
But best of all is "Bay" by David Erik Nelson, a recontextualization
of ghosts that is authentically surprising, genuinely horrifying
-- an extraordinary achievement in a hackneyed subgenre."
--Nick Gevers, Locus
- "A highbrow
literary zine that presents fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with
beautiful layout and spare but attractive graphics."
-- A
Reader's Guide to the Underground Press, no. 20
- "Had LCRW #12 been a sheaf
of blank pages around "The Fishie," I still would have
felt compelled to give it a good review. But with its usual assortment
of quietly compelling fiction hovering somewhere around the nexus
of ghost story, fairy tale, folklore, fantasy, and magical realism,
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet continues to define-and
redefine-for me why we read, write, and take risks on new writers,
new ideas, and new ways. Quality."
-- Tangent
No.
11 --
- Sarah Monette's story "Three
Letters from the Queen of Elfland" won the 2003
Gaylactic Spectrum Award
- Nan Fry's poem "The Wolf's
Story" was reprinted in The
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror XVI (Datlow & Windling,
eds.).
- The following stories &
poem received honorable mentions:
Theodora Goss -- The
Rapid Advance of Sorrow
Sarah Monette -- Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland
Kathryn Cramer -- The Mourners
- "I particularly enjoyed
Sarah Monette's fey eroticism in "Three Letters from the Queen
of Elfland."
--Asimov's
- "Oil and Greece"
by Gavin J. Grant reprinted in the Zine
Yearbook Vol.7
- "smart, accessible...
If you're looking to spend some quality time with a lit zine, this
is a must have."
-- A Reader's Guide to
the Underground Press, no. 18 -- supplement
- Locus,
Jan. 2003, "a very strong outing." Especially recommended:
Minsoo Kang's "Three Stories"
- Locus,
Feb. 2003 Recommended Reading: Sarah Monette's "Three Letters
from the Queen of Elfland"
- Tangent
No.
10 --
 No.
9 --
No.
8 --
No.
7 --
No.
6 --
- SF
Site review
- "Intriguingly surreal
fiction" -- Asimov's
- The Hotsy-Totsy Club review
- Nice mention in the "Zines
with a Literary Bent" section of the shouldn't-be-missed Xerox Debt
- The
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror XIII, (Datlow & Windling,
eds.) nod: Kelly Link's "The Dictator's Wife"
No.5
(v3,n2) --
No.
4 --
- A
Reader's Guide to the Underground Press, no. 12
"The fiction by Nalo Hopkinson and a hilarious short story
by Kelly Link about beauty queens are impressive. The poetry ranges
from good to fair, but the zine has some interesting nonfiction
pieces as well. Naoko Takahashi's observations on Japan's culture
and media are fascinating. A debate about the death penalty by Gavin
J. Grant is excellent. Fiction and zine reviews, too. Nicely presented."
Press releases
August
22, '01, "A play based on a Kelly Link short story"
Seems like we don't really do
these after all.
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