Subversions is the first-ever anthology in English of French of 'new anarchist fiction'. A bilingual collection, it brings together 18 contemporary anarchist writers from across North America and Europe. Their anarchist short stories range from hardcore waving of the black flag to more reflective, introspective soul-searching.
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La pensée autoritaire, à la faveur de trois guerres et grâce à la destruction physique d’une élite de révoltés, a submergé cette tradition libertaire. Mais cette pauvre victoire est provisoire, le combat dure toujours. Camus avait raison. Le combat dure toujours, ce livre en témoigne.
- Monique Surel-Tupin
Berthold Brecht famously noted that art is not a mirror to reflect life, but rather a hammer with which to shape it. Too many artists forget this. The authors in this anthology remember it, and they want you to remember it, too.
- Derrick Jensen
Distribution
Canada
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USA
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Authors / Auteur-e-s
Citoyen #1 81 07 33 063 124 75 - Jeannot et la spatule du mystèreCitoyen #1 81 07 33 063 124 75 est un membre du collectif No Fun Marguerite. Les connaisseurs noteront que son matricule indique une nationalité française. Il a collaboré en tant que barman à diverses pièces de théâtre avec la compagnie Les esprits solubles, mal joué dans plusieurs groupes de rock, et donné la main à la pâte à plusieurs (très) courts-métrages et expositions d’arts plastiques. Huit heures par jour il est ingénieur car il faut bien vivre.
Gio'Notte - Quête
Gio’ Notte est le pseudonyme d’un artiste engagé, qui depuis presque 15 années sillonne l’occident d’est en ouest en est. Parmi ses écrits : un roman, Terra Straniera, deux pièces de théâtre, Ubu X - une tragédie politique - et Projet Vita, puis un recueil de nouvelles 16 anni. Bientôt, vous pourrez lire aussi À l’ouest de la vie, un roman autobiographique qui décrit son parcours de baroudeur, d’artiste et d’être humain.
Guillaume Bouchard Labonté - Signez ici
Guillaume Bouchard Labonté écrit de la littérature engagée depuis plusieurs années. Il a publié une nouvelle dans l’ouvrage collectif Le Québec en 2025, Visions de la jeune génération, reçu une mention pour sa nouvelle L’aveugle d’Antioche et un prix pour L’amorphisme du monde, un récit à saveur écologiste.
Mathieu Blais et Joël Casséus - À celui que tu viens de descendre
Mathieu Blais et Joël Casséus habitent la grande région de Montréal. Sociologues et littéraires, ils partagent une obsession bicéphale pour le glauque et le lugubre. En octobre 2010, ils ont fait paraître leur premier roman chez Léméac, Zippo.
Raphaël Hubert - Valeur propre des images
Raphaël Hubert a participé à bon nombre d’événements littéraires au cours de sa brève existence, déployant de perpétuelles tentatives pour lier activisme politique et artistique. Il a écrit plusieurs nouvelles, dont O Calor, publiée dans la revue Moebius, et s’adonne aussi activement à la poésie, au théâtre et au roman. Membre du groupe rock Des Ébauches, pour lequel il écrit plusieurs chansons, il participe aussi à quelques collectifs radicaux d’action esthético-politique. Il termine une maîtrise en science politique sur la création et l’émancipation.
Steffen - Le poing enchaîné
Steffen est un amas de matière complexifié. Il porte le prénom diminué et anglicisé de Stéphane. Il a les origines d’un grand marcheur. Éternel déconstructeur du passé, il se perd dans les marasmes ordonnés des systèmes. Il a choisi de respirer le chaos, faisant renaître un ordre sans pouvoir. Le poing enchaîné est sa première publication. Si vous en trouvez une autre, prière d’en informer les éditeurs.
Sunny Doyle - La boîte aux lettres
Yannie Paradis - Enzo
Yannie Paradis vit à Montréal. Elle essaie, le plus possible, de consacrer son temps à apprendre des choses, jouer de la musique, écrire et arrêter de paniquer pour rien.
Alan Franklin - Excerpts from Lives of the Saints
Alan Franklin has written extensively for the Fifth Estate, Daily Barbarian and Modern Citizen magazines, though most of his creative energies for the past 25 years have gone into writing and performing with Detroit’s anarcho ska-punk band, the Layabouts. The pieces here are taken from a larger work in progress, Lives of the Saints. Excerpts from this and other works have appeared in Dispatch Detroit and Semiotext[e]USA.
Bruno Massé - Bunkertor Null
Bruno Massé, also known as Raven, is an author, researcher and multi-disciplinary artist from Montreal. He is a long time contributor to local eco-anarchist zine La Mauvaise Herbe, the Montreal International Anarchist Theatre Festival and the online magazine Subversify. Better known for groundbreaking research in the field of radical environmental movement studies, he has also published three novels, one poetry collection and written, produced and acted in four plays.
Cara Hoffman - On Anarchist Parenting, The Sea Monkey Theatre
Cara Hoffman is a journalist and the author of So Much Pretty (2011, Simon and Schuster). Hoffman lives in Manhattan and works as a tutor at The Lower East Side Girl’s Club.
Frank Havoc - Egress
Frank Havoc is a writer working in both fiction and nonfiction. He is also a big fan of industrial/post-industrial music and weird movies.
Jim Miller - Blowback
Jim Miller is the author of Flash and Drift, both novels. He is also co-author of the radical history of San Diego, Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (with Mike Davis and Kelly Mayhew) and a cultural studies book on working class sports fandom, Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire (with Kelly Mayhew). Miller is also the editor of Sunshine/ Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana and Democracy in Education; Education for Democracy: An Oral History of the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1931. He has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a wide range of journals and other publications.
Norman Nawrocki - It's the Bomb
Norman Nawrocki is a Montreal writer, cabaret artist, violinist, actor, educator and sex advocate. He has written several books of short fiction and poetry, 50 music albums (solo and with his different bands), theatre musicals, and lots of anarchist non-fiction. He tours internationally performing music, poetry and anti-sexist, queer-positive sex comedy cabarets, and gives ‘Creative Resistance’ workshops about how to use the arts for radical social change.
Peter Gelderloos - The Open Trains
Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist from the Appalachian foothills in Virginia. He is the author of Sousa in the Echo Chamber, a book of short stories, as well as several works of political nonfiction, including How Nonviolence Protects the State, To Get to the Other Side, and Anarchy Works. Peter currently lives in Barcelona.
Ron Sakolsky & Sean Wood - On the Lam
Ron Sakolsky, a prolific writer of anarchist non-fiction, never thought he could write fiction until he got hooked up in a playful literary collaboration with his pal Sean Woods on the verdant shores of the Inner Island. The unspoken terms of the collaboration involved each of us presenting the other with an unfolding series of creative challenges from which to improvise, but no pre-determined idea as to plot and character development that might constrain our fertile imaginations.
Sean Woods began his literary adventures as a tender teen, memorizing poems by Walt Whitman, Emile Nelligan and Paul Verlaine. To Sean fiction is a method of inquiry, a means of expression, and an oasis in the desert of capitalist civilization. Although Woods does not believe that literacy is necessary to an intelligent human culture, he has let the literary imagination lead him through the creation of two poetry chapbooks, a novel, many short stories, the invention of collage fiction and this playful collaboration with his friend Ron Sakolsky.
David Lester
David Lester is guitarist in the rock duo Mecca Normal; author of The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism, and the graphic novel, The Listener. See more of his artwork in The Black Dot Museum.
Foreword by Derrick Jensen
Préface de Monique Surel-Tupin





