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Welcome to Amsterdam Quarterly’s main website. AQ was founded in April 2011 and its goal is to publish, promote, and comment on writing and art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world. We hope you enjoy reading the work selected for this thirty-third issue (AQ33) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org.

Please see the submissions page for the change in compensation to artists and writers for their work starting with AQ33 (spring 2022).

AQ33’s theme is Flight. Its work explores the worlds of travel and travail, both literally and figuratively, through art, essays, fiction, interview, memoir, photography, poetry, and reviews about subjects such as air travel via aeroplanes and balloons, the flight of birds and war refugees, the physics of celestial flight, flights of fancy, etc.

AQ’s next themes for 2022 are as follows: AQ34 (summer 2022) Holidays and AQ35 (autumn 2022) City and/or Country. For AQ 34, send work inspired by your personal holiday/vacation experiences, or about a country’s unique customs and/or holidays. For AQ35, submit work about city and/or country life including new hybrid situations such as urban farming on city rooftops and working on rural wind or solar farms.