Bicycle Comics

Independent publisher of poetry and comic strips. New anthology coming early 2026. Erase the lines that serve no greater art.

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@BeckyLTuch WAIT…you mean we can't just command-F for em-dashes and call it a day anymore?

The best, and imperfect, and exhausting method is to interrogate the author. Anyone who has truly written a short story or poem has sat with every line, can tell you the backstory of each choice.

[Patricia Smith @pswordwoman]

Always dreamed of my book in an airport bookstore. Thank you, LAX!

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@BeckyLTuch Ooof. "Hire our editors for $250 after we just rejected you" is quite a dominance flex.

Contributors to our upcoming anthology don't pay a penny to submit, and we pay them $ + copies…but we do ask for proof that they willingly ended their federal careers.

Double ooof.

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@jadedwriter_ @BeckyLTuch Editors are complex; they contain multitudes.

[KHD @Katie_Dozier]

Super excited to share our brand new, 2026 ONE ART Haiku Anthology! Thanks again to everyone that sent in their haiku and congratulations to the incredible poems and poets curated this year!

As always, I hope you’ll share it even with friends that aren’t “into poetry”…YET! 😈 @OneArtPoetry1 @MarkDanowsky

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

Now or never, gang. If you resigned or retired from the US government last year, you have just this weekend to submit your letter to our federal resignations anthology.

https://t.co/49APfTEh2L

#ResignationBook

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@MaureenLangloss Amen.

[Maureen Langloss @MaureenLangloss]

This cover? Yes please!

Yes to: owls and poems.
No to: decimating the US Forest Service.

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@pswordwoman WHOA that's Shira Erlichman in the 2nd row!

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

We will probably close the window on submissions to #ResignationAnthology this week, after Tax Day. If you left the federal workforce in 2025, please tell us your story!

https://t.co/49APfTEh2L

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

"I opted for deferred resignation. I am okay with my choice, but I don't think I will ever be okay with how/why it happened. It feels a little like closing a good book mid-chapter."
–IRS employee, resignation letter (excerpt)

#ResignationBook #IRS

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

Over 150,000 federal workers resigned in 2025. Some did not go quietly. If you left your US government job last year, there might be a place for you in our upcoming book.

https://t.co/49APfTEh2L

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

Our upcoming book will showcase the best federal resignation letters of 2025. If you resigned from a US government role, including early retirement that you didn't really want, we'd like to read your parting words.

https://t.co/TdcCYzPdOO

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

@BeckyLTuch @Perez_Writes LET'S FIGHT.

[Becky Tuch @BeckyLTuch]

Dear Editor,
I see you ask for short stories not to exceed 5,000 words.
Enclosed, please find my 25,000 word novella, a labor of love which unfortunately I am not able to shorten at this time.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word.

2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Interesting grammatical ambiguity. I'm 99 percent sure I know the correct interpretation, but not 100.

[Porch LitMag @porchlitmag]

We are currently open for submissions.

Kindly review the submission guidelines before submitting.

We look forward to reading your best work

NO SUBMISSION FEE

#PorchLitMag
#SEAvoices
#WritingCommunity

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

This spring, we will publish a book of the best federal resignation letters of 2025. Submit your entry here:
https://t.co/TdcCYzPLEm
Here are a few we've received so far:

[Bicycle Comics @BicycleComics]

This spring, we will publish a book full of brave acts. Dozens of federal employees resigned from their jobs rather than carry out policies they felt were illegal or un-American.
They gave up their paychecks. Some gave up their pensions.
We are in quiet awe of these letters.