anarchist fictions - a literary journal

Anarchist Fictions is a new print journal of original and reprinted short fiction and poems on themes about, or adjacent to, anarchy. Launched in early Winter 2025, the journal's first issue contains 130 pages of beautiful art and writing that captures and recreates the fiery will to destroy existing society.

Fiction editors Vague and Ominous love dark, subtle, well-crafted literary fiction about anything related to anarchy or anarchism: chaos, social collapse, uprisings, new beginnings, sabotage, subterfuge, collective undertakings, individualist scheming, sociality, desertion, love and its variants, despair, euphoria.

Table of Contents:

Editorial

A Brief History of Anarchist Fiction - Margaret Killjoy

New Fiction

The Hydra vulgaris Self-Reassembly Experiment - Rachael Kuintzle

A Version of Reversion - Caleb Cloaca

Subcomandante Saul Reyna Discusses Alienation of the Lover from the Beloved - Oso Guardiola

A Place Without Neighbours - Blessing Obiahu

The Ethical Philosophy of Holy Shit I Just Cut My Hand on a Broken Bottle - Stephen Pierce

The End - Thomas Malinovsky

New Poetry

I Have a Dream: Ban Abortion in Croatia - Katarina Pavičić Ivelja

Someone Unrealiable - Pooja Singh

What Goes On - Lynne Sargent

Kettle - Brianna Hammerstrom

Too Didactic - J.J. Carey

love song for the global intifada - J.J. Carey

Reprinted Fiction

"Uncle, Give Me a Cigarette" - Walid Daqqa

SolidAIrity - Rachel A. Rosen

A Rocket of Iron - Voltairine de Cleyre

At The End of The Alley - Voltairine de Cleyre

The Sorrows of the Body - Voltairine de Cleyre

Reprinted Poems

the birds don't know about self-immolation - anonymous

To the tune of "America the Beautiful" - Louise Crowley

Five Poems - Katerina Gogou

The Arrest - Psalm Frond

Two Poems - Ahmed Saleh

Five Poems - Fernando Pessoa

Softcover, 130 pages