Four score and three issues ago this zine did not exist. Two score and three issues ago LCRW popped into being just like the big bang but with less burning hot plasma and fewer planets forming. The formation included a twice-yearly space for fiction, poetry, and later, when the spinning slowed enough not to spill everything, a cooking column from Nicole Kimberling.Contributor Bios for LCRW 43:Alisa Alering lives in Indiana where she reports on innovations in science and technology. Herrather unscientific fiction has appeared inPodcastle, Clockwork PhoenixIV, andFlash Fiction Online, among others and has been recognized by the Italo Calvino Prize. She is currently at work on a novel about two sisters prepping for the apocalypse in 1980s Appalachia.Leah Bobet is a novelist, editor, and critic whose novels have won the Sunburst, Copper Cylinder, and Aurora Awards, been selected for the Ontario Library Associations Best Bets program, and shortlisted for the Cybils and the Andre Norton Award. Her short fiction has appeared in multiple Years Best anthologies and been transformed into choral work, and is taught in high school and university classrooms in Canada, Australia, and the US. She is guest poetry editor forReckoning: creative writing on environmental justices 2021 issue. She lives in Toronto, where she makes jam, builds civic engagement spaces, and plants both tomatoes and trees. Visit her at leahbobet.com.Erica Clashe lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Ommie. Shes a professional gay auntie. This is her first published work. Find her at ericaclashe.com.Gillian Daniels writes, works, and haunts the streets of the Boston area in Massachusetts. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and left shortly after attending the 2011 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop. Since then, her poetry and short fiction have appeared inStrange Horizons, Apex Magazine, andBeneath Ceaseless Skies, among more than twenty-five other publications. She serves as custodian to one (1) ginger cat who likes to chew the corners of her books when she doesnt feed him breakfast right away.Kathleen Jennings is a writer and illustrator based in Brisbane, Australia. Her Australian Gothic debutFlyaway(Tor.com) and her poetry debutTravelogues: Vignettes from Trains in Motion(Brain Jar Press) were published in 2020. She has won two Ditmars for her short stories and been shortlisted for the Eugie Foster Memorial Awards. As an illustrator (this story began as a series of pictures exhibited at Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis), she has been shortlisted four times for the World Fantasy Awards, as well as once for the Hugos and the Locus Awards,and has won several Ditmars.Jim Marinos stories are published or forthcoming in Apex Magazine and the Alaska Quarterly Review, and his short humor has appeared on McSweeneys Internet Tendency. He makes his living teaching Shakespeare.Zack Moss is a writer of weird fiction with an MFA from Western Washington University. His stories have appeared in Alimentum: the Literature of Food, The Crambo, and Zymbol, among a few others.Quinn Ramsay is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. His prose and poetry have been published inParagraphiti,From Glasgow to Saturn,Santa Clara Review,The Magnolia Review, andGemini, among others. He has been a recipient of the Amy M. Young Award in Creative Writing, and a co-editor and designer for Williwaw: an Anthology of the Marvellous.Jessy Randalls poems, stories, and other things have appeared in Analog, Asimovs, Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet, and Strange Horizons. Her most recent book is How to Tell If You Are Human: Diagram Poems. She is a librarian at Colorado College and her website is http://bit.ly/JessyRandall.Joanne Rixon lives in the shadow of an active volcano with a rescue chihuahua named after a dinosaur, and is an organizer with the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup. Her poetry has appeared inGlitterShip, her book reviews in theSeattle Timesand theCascadia Subduction Zone Literary Quarterly, and her short speculative fiction in venues includingTerraform, Fireside, andLiminal Stories. You can find her yelling about poetry and politics on twitter @JoanneRixonAnne Sheldon is a librarian and storyteller in Silver Spring, MD. Her work has appeared inCascadia Subduction Zone,The Lyric,Lady ChurchillsRosebud Wristlet, and other magazines. Aqueduct Press has published two books of her verse,The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor andThe Bone Spindle.Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet issue number 43, June 2021. ISSN 1544-7782. Ebook ISBN: 9781618731968. Print edition text: Bodoni Book. Titles: Imprint MT Shadow. LCRW is (usually) published in June and November by Small Beer Press, 150 Pleasant St., #306, Easthampton, MA 01027 smallbeerpress.com/lcrw. twitter.com/smallbeerpressSubscriptions: $24/4 issues. More options available, including chocolate, of course. Library & institutional subscriptions: EBSCO. LCRW is available as a DRM-free ebook through weightlessbooks.com, &c. Contents 2021 the authors. All rights reserved. Cover illustration Black-and-White Monkey 2021 by Catherine Byun (catherinebyun.com). Thank you authors, artists, and readers. In reasons to celebrate Elwin Cotmans collection Dance on Saturday was a Philip K. Dick Award finalist. Please send submissions (we are always especially seeking weird and interesting work from women writers and writers of color), guideline requests, &c. to the address above.