During his stay there, he became close friends with the writer Konstantinos Theotokis, one of the first Greek socialists, and was strongly influenced by his ideas.
At the age of only twenty-three, he became deeply involved in the controversy surrounding the Marxist inspired book, Our Common Goal (Το Κοινωνικόν μας Ζήτημα), by Georgios Skliros; writing several pieces for the literary magazine, Ο Νουμάς [el].
In 1912, he provided illustrations for Η τιμή και το χρήμα (Price and Money), a novel by Theotokis that the Socialist Club had published.
In 1915, he was one of the founders of the literary journal, Ανθολογία Κέρκυρας (Corfu Anthology), which served as a venue for his engravings.
[4] From 1919 to 1922, Zavitsianos worked on a series of illustrations for a new edition of Στον ήσκιο της συκιάς (In the Shade of the Fig Tree), a collection of short stories by the Demoticist writer, Petros Vlastos [el] that was never published.