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Welcome to Amsterdam Quarterly’s original website. AQ was founded in April 2011. 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 forty-sixth issue (AQ46) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org.

AQ46’s theme was Summer. We received poetry, short stories and memoirs about sun, sea, and romance along with those about storms of an exterior and interior nature. AQ46 also features breath-taking, visual, artistic endeavours in three different media: acrylic on canvas, Jacquard tapestries, and photography.

AQ’s remaining theme for 2026 is Culture. Its reading period is the month of July. Send us your work related to tribes, cities, civilisations, music, art, rituals, or even germs and yoghurt. As always, this topic is quite broad to encourage a wide range of submissions from different perspectives.