Submission Guidelines
The Creative Nothing is now accepting submissions for our upcoming print edition, as well as our e-zine, dedicated to exploring Max Stirner’s egoist philosophy and its reverberations across thought, culture, and critique. We are looking for essays, fiction, art and poetry that engage deeply with egoism, anarcho-egoism, and Stirnerian critique in all its radical forms.
What we are looking for:
- Essays
- Photo Essays
- Personal Stories
- Journalistic Articles
- Independent Research
- Think Pieces
- Opinion Pieces
- Thought Experiments
- Short Stories
- Photography
- Digital Art
- Paintings and Drawings
- Reviews (of books/movies/games etc.)
Formal Requirements:
Essays/Articles:
1,500 – 5,000 words
Short Fiction:
1,000 – 4,000 words
Poetry:
Up to 5 poems per submission
Art & Photography:
Up to 5 pieces per submission
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere.
Send your submissions as a Word or PDF attachment via our Submission Manager.
If your piece challenges conventional discourse and disturbs the slumber of the masses, we want to read it.
Possible Topics (just for inspiration):
- Max Stirner’s Egoist Philosophy and its implications
- Anarcho-Egoism and postanarchist critiques
- Profiles and analyses of Stirnerian Thinkers
- Stirner’s Influence on Postanarchism and modern radical thought
- Egoist Cultural Critique: media, identity, consumerism, and power structures
- Egoist Literary Critique: Analyses of literary works through a Stirnerian lens
- The intersections of Egoism & Psychoanalysis (Freud, Lacan, Deleuze, etc.)
- Egoism in Practice: Personal accounts, experiments in radical self-ownership, and real-world applications
- Poetry that embodies egoist themes, radical self-expression, and the rejection of ideological constraints.
- Fictional works that explore egoism, rebellion, self-interest, or the deconstruction of social constructs.
- Experimental and hybrid writing that pushes the boundaries of form and subjectivity.
- Visual art that aligns with Stirnerian themes of uniqueness, self-creation, and resistance to imposed structures.