We’re seeking your feminist science fiction and fantasy stories for the 12th anthology in the Bikes in Space series of books! Please submit your original short fiction (in written or comics form) about bicycling from a feminist perspective. Stories should feature gardens, plants, or other products of photosynthesis. All three of these elements (bicycles, feminism, […]
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Call for Submissions: Books and Bikes in...
Posted onIt’s time to start planning the tenth volume of the Bikes in Space feminist bicycle science fiction anthology! The theme for this one is books. Submissions are now open for original short fiction about bicycling and books, from a feminist perspective. These elements need to be intrinsic to the story. Send your most creative tales […]
Call for Submissions: Bicycles & Broomst...
Posted onI’m accepting submissions now for the witchcraft-themed ninth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies, scheduled to come out at the beginning of 2022. Working title: Bicycles & Broomsticks Please submit your original short fiction that combines themes of witchcraft and bicycling, through a feminist lens. Both witchiness and […]
Call for Submissions: Cats. And Bikes. I...
Posted onThe theme of the eighth annual Bikes in Spaces, the galaxy’s only series of feminist bicycle science fiction anthologies, is in the works! This volume’s theme is… cats. House cats. Ship cats. Lions. Strays. Anthropomorphic talking cats. Feline deities. Familiars. Wherever your imagination takes you, we’d love to read your story. Please send us your […]
Call for Submissions: Bikesexuality
Posted onBack in 2012, the seventh issue of Taking the Lane zine was called BikeSexuality. It sold out quickly, and has been out of print for years. Due to its popularity, we’ve decided to create a book along the same theme, currently scheduled to come out at the end of 2020. Here are the details: Call […]
Call for submissions: Bikes in Space tra...
Posted onIt’s time: We’re requesting stories for the seventh volume of feminist bicycle science fiction series Bikes in Space. The fifth volume, Bikes Not Rockets, is funding on Kickstarter through August 8th. The sixth, with the working title Dragon Bike, is in edits. This seventh volume is scheduled to come out in early 2021. For the […]
Call for Submissions: Bikes in Space #5:...
Posted onSubmissions are open for Bikes in Space Volume 5. The theme is Intersections. Stories that are accepted will all have a feminist perspective and incorporate bicycling in some way, whether or not they are actually about feminism or about bicycles. We especially welcome submissions from writers of color and nonbinary writers, and seek stories that […]
Call for Submissions: Bikes in Space 3 (...
Posted onIt’s that time again! The third annual volume of Bikes in Space is in the works, this time with a monster twist. This year’s theme is zombies and bicycling. You may take that as literally (pedal powered undead? cycling zombie hunters?) or figuratively (what has automotive technology done to our brains?) as you like. Stories […]
Taking the Lane grows up: From zine to j...
Posted onUpdate: Now funding this project (it’s been renamed the Journal of Bicycle Feminism) on Kickstarter! Check it out! Well, it had to happen one day: Taking the Lane is growing up. After nearly four years of putting out a more-or-less quarterly zine, we’re graduating to something bigger. It’s called: Taking the Lane: A journal of […]
Call for Submissions: Grief and Healing ...
Posted onYou are invited to contribute to issue number 14 of Taking the Lane. Essays, artwork, fiction, and poetry that explore ideas around grief and healing (through the lens of bicycling, and in a feminist manner) are being sought. Love and loss, injury and recovery, and crimes of a property or planetary nature are all relevant—as […]
Call for Submissions: Bicycling and repr...
Posted onEver since the original Our Bodies, Our Bikes zine came out, I knew that any future edition would need to talk about reproductive rights. In the past year, the connection has been very much on my mind, as the women’s bicycling movement has taken off in a positive direction at the same time as women’s […]
Call for Submissions: Bikes in Space Vol...
Posted onThat’s right—we’re doing it again. The Bikes in Space zine (#10 of the quarterly Taking the Lane series) was a hit all around. You liked it, the stories and art submitted were awesome, and I had an absurd amount of fun making it happen. All those stories really just whetted my appetite for more. And […]
Call for Submissions: Our Bodies, Our Bi...
Posted onUpdate: Thanks to this project moving along at quite a slow timeline, the general call for submissions is extended until July 1, 2014. The time has come. “Our Bodies, Our Bikes” was the fifth issue of Taking the Lane, and also one of the most popular. It sold out quickly and has long been out […]