7000 individual visits to Double Dutch magazine!

Whoot! And even whootier considering that each visitor checked out several pages during their visit? Thank you all so much, once again. We’re not the easily humbled sort but this is more love than we thought possible at this early stage of our existence as a magazine… Fucking addictive too! So, how about some more rigorous fondling, eh?

Submission window for our first Biannual Poetry Prize is open!

The Double Dutch Biannual Poetry Prize!

First winners in 2026, autumn edition. Next ones lauded in the spring of 2027, etc, etc.

Rules:

1 poem per person. No length requirements. No theme preference. Read our mag though, you’ll get a feel for what we tend to gravitate towards? We’re not kidding you. It helps.

Submission fee 10 euro’s. No refunds. One version, so better make it your final. Submit through Duosuma/Duotrope or the contactpage on our site (after donating 10 euro’s through here) and thank you ever so kindly!

We reserve the right to not name a winner when the quality of submissions isn’t high enough in our oppinion. Even if 1000 people enter. On the other hand, if we only receive 3 poems and they’re all great and one of them’s yours, well… :)

Submission windows: for the autumn editions the 30th of September and for the spring editions March the 31st.

Prizes:

Eternal fame, for the winner of each edition a rigorous ego fondling through a dedicated feature article about their poetry + each edition’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will get their own page. We’ll select as many nominees as we deem deserving and these fine folk will get a shout out as well.

Our head judge (Autumn 2026 ed.)!

Lucy Olsman (she/her) is a 24 year old Dutch graduate of MA Creative Writing at UCC in Ireland, and the MA English Literature at RUG in the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in Motley Magazine, Double Dutch, Still Here, the Reprise, House of Arcanum, and, forthcoming, Abyss Literary Magazine. She is currently based in Groningen, the Netherlands, and is finishing up her novel Little Princess.

We can’t wait to get going with this exciting initiative! So, send us your best? Cheers.

Editorial note: we might be a magazine that likes to kid around and look like we do not take ourselves too seriously? Well, that’s because we don’t! We do however very much cherish the poetry/art published here and treat the hard work that has gone into it with the respect it deserves. You will find us putting the same care and love into organizing these contests. Pinky promise!

We’re official(ly a dutch company now)!

K.V.K. (Dutch chamber of commerce) Nr. 42112473 … Whoot! Means you can tip us on the website itself AND when you submit your work through Duosuma/Duotrope! Ey? Who doesn’t want to do that! You can do so right now even! Cheers. Also means we are seriously going to start looking into organizing poetry contests ourselves, and a bi-annual anthology. for which you’ll pay to enter/submit. Time for us to hopefully start breaking even in the not so distant future… Submitting for the magazine itself still is and will stay free, though. But now you can actually put your money where your poetry’s at! To be continued + you’re welcome :)

Double Dutch magazine (regular) nr. 4 is out!

Whoot! Double Dutch magazine issue nr. 4 has officially gone live! Our July 2026 volume is one more utter page turner and filled with, for example,

a DUTCH TREAT

which consists entirely of the brilliant Dutch EP ‘Giswerk’ by Martijn van Dijk! (with translations/re-writes in English by Benne van der Velde),

POETRY like

The First Poem of the New Year Has a Sore Throat, by Charles Seth Venable

Cowtown Elegy, by June Chua

Modern Text, by Elizabeth Dick Howell

A Father’s Lament, by David M Stern

Day of Small Things, by Jason O’Toole

Bouncy House, by Edward Johnson

A Bit Of A Prick, by Mark Wyatt

Polyembolokoilamania, by Tammy Smith

Harm Reduction, by Kaycee Painter

Two Glasses of Wine, by Aaron D. Wiegert,

(VISUAL) ART by

Two poetry book covers, by Frans de Winter

Standing Up in Power, by Gordon Massman

David Hockney, by Nicole Montagne

Untitled, by an old French love interest

Eurekia Think Twice, by Erwin Adema

The Snake Is A River, by Emily Kocken

A, by Nathaniel Horowitz

Earth Bound, by Mahmoud Ahmed Abdelgader Elmardi

Skylight and Lamp, by Christopher Woods

and MUSIC from

I know, you're not mine (Jag vet, du är inte min), by Team Jacub

Streets of Minneapolis, by Bruce Springsteen

I’m not racist, by Joyner Lucas

Erika (auf der Heide), by Herms Niel

Run for your life, by The Beatles

Smack My Bitch Up, by The Prodigy

Rumble, by Link Wray.

Hi Ren, by Ren

Is This Country Song Racist?, by Key & Peele

Dancing In The Street, by David Bowie and Mick Jagger

Please enjoy :) We sure did putting it together. Thanks so, so much to our contributors! Click here for our equally impressive previous issues? The submission window for our July 2026 issue is still open! Cheers.

6000 individual visits to Double Dutch magazine!

Whoot! And even whootier considering that each visitor checked out several pages during their visit? Thank you all so much, once again. We’re not the easily humbled sort but this is more love than we thought possible at this early stage of our existence as a magazine… Fucking addictive too! So, how about some more rigorous fondling, eh?

Submission window for issue 5 is now open!

After closing the submission window for our fourth regular issue, during which we received a mouthwatering 101 submissions, thank you so much for that (!), it’s now time for us to once again get to work and actually put together this 4th issue. That will be a true pleasure due to the fantastic pieces we were fortunate enough to be able to select. If you are new here, or are one of the submitters who didn’t get selected, please try (again) for our issue nr. 5? Due to go live in September 2026. You can do so starting from today, and right here! Thanks, as always!

5000 visits to Double Dutch magazine!

Whoot! And even whootier considering that each visitor checked out 4 different pages on average during their visit? Thank you all so much, we’re not the easily humbled sort but this is more love than we thought possible at this early stage of our existence as a magazine… Fucking addictive too! So, how about some more rigorous fondling, eh?

Double Dutch magazine (regular) issue nr. 3 is out!

Whoot! Double Dutch magazine issue nr. 3 has officially gone live! Our May 2026 volume is another utter page turner and filled with, for example,

DUTCH (& FLEMISH!) TREATS the likes of

Ocean view (Uitzicht op zee), by Rob Chrispijn and translated by Benne van der Velde

Let me travel with you (Laat me met je meegaan), by Wim de Craene and translated by Benne van der Velde

Vanden Lande van Oversee (First strophe), by Jacob van Maerlant and translated by MAZ

Mi Skin, by Dean Bowen and translated by… Dean Bowen!

Plicht (Duty), by Alexis de Roode and translated by Donald Gardner

KOE KUT PORTEMONNEE…, by Sander Groen and translated by Krukowski Krukowski

raster genius POETRY such as

Liminal Space, by Sheridan Mark Walter

We were supposed to see the remake of Nosferato but…, by Juleigh Howard-Hobson

The Chirping Smoke Alarm, by Trinity Saldana

Golden Hour, by Alexandra Price

Some Beautiful Men…, by Stephen Mead

The sandwich and the sidewalk, by Jonathan Sijl

Improvising, by Philip G Davison

The Weariness of the Second Law, by Wing Yu Chan

Morning Patrol, by Scott William Westcott

The problem with edibles, by Sharon Hoffman

stunning (VISUAL) ART in the flavors of

Gegrond/Wall, by Frans de Winter

Girl with a pearl earring, by Johannes Vermeer (and field tripped by Benne and his wife)

‘Tronie’ of an old man, by Rembrandt (ALSO field tripped that day!)

Giddy, by Edward Michael Supranowicz

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, by Vincent Van Gogh (with a poem by Lucy Olsman)

Untitled, by Joris van Os

Untitled statue, by Banksy

and these links to MUSIC(videos)

The Hippies Were Right, by Tim (The Hitch-hiking poet) O’Connor‍ ‍

On the corner (the whole album), by Miles Davis

Light my fire, by The Doors

Girl you know it’s - Girl you know it’s - Girl you know it’s - (spoiler: not true), by Millie Vanillie

Miserere, by Gregorio Allegri

This is America, by Childish Gambino

Dear God, by XTC

Plantation slave songs remembered: Come butter Come (by Irene Williams) & All the way round the ring go-round (by Hattie Garce)

Because I got high, by Afroman

Snoop Frogg (Kermit sings “Gin & Juice”), by There I ruined It

Please enjoy :) We sure did putting it together. Thanks so, so much to our contributors! Click here for our equally impressive previous issues? The submission window for our July 2026 issue is still open! Cheers.

Whoot! Double Dutch magazine is Duotrope ‘Listing of the Day’!

“Dear Editor,

Congratulations! Double Dutch Magazine has been selected as Duotrope's Listing of the Day!
This means we will be featuring it today prominently on our website (https://duotrope.com), as well as on X-Twitter (https://x.com/Duotrope), Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/duotrope.com), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Duotrope).
We just wanted to let you know that we're giving you a little extra exposure today. If you'd like, you can retweet or share the posts.”

4000 visits to Double Dutch magazine!

Whoot! And even whootier considering that each visitor checked out 4 different pages on average during their visit? Thank you all so much, we’re not the easily humbled sort but this is more love than we thought possible at this early stage of our existence as a magazine… Fucking addictive too! So, how about some more rigorous fondling, eh?

Submission window for issue 4 is now open!

After closing the submission window for our third regular issue, during which we received a mouthwatering 97 submissions, thank you so much for that (!), it’s now time for us to get to work and actually put together this 3th issue. That will, again, be a true pleasure due to the fantastic pieces we were fortunate enough to be able to select. If you are new here, or are one of the submitters who didn’t get selected, please try (again) for our issue nr. 4? Due to go live in July 2026. You can do so starting from today, and right here! Thanks, as always.

‘AFGHAN’ - prose by Benne van der Velde published on Double Dutch magazine!

Foreword:

Erik works at a coffeeshop in his hometown, playing host, serving drinks, and selling weed and hashish. Having quit himself only recently he’s easily triggered, sentimental as only former stoners can get, and keeps a journal to document his day-to-day life and make sense of the changes he goes through. And then there’s this fascination with the enigmatic army veteran John…

Obviously based on his own experience, writer and poet Benne van der Velde tells a significantly more than less autobiographic tale about one of the most (in)famous Dutch tourist destinations worldwide, the evolution of the official Dutch policies surrounding the Herb as well as a story about an intelligent, charming dealer who doubts, tries hard to better himself, dares to be vulnerable, struggles, writes, runs and fights. A special but most of all genuinely human slice of life centered in a scene that’s still cluttered with stereotypes and viewed with plenty of bias.

Just to be absolutely clear, an advocate for the daily use of Ganja he isn’t. His story gets right up in your face, it’s hilarious, sometimes uncomfortably honest, manic, surprisingly spiritual, quite virtuoso and very old school hardcore.

Want to read it? Thanks :) To do so click on the image below!

Ménage à deux (a dialogue in pieces) by Benne van der Velde published on Double Dutch magazine!

Foreword:

“And he never again did. Talk to me. Since 2001… Why, hi there! Between 1998 and 2001 Benne penned down 5000+ pages of internal dialogue. To be able to do that he wrote 10 pages per day, every day aboard the Ferry where he worked at the time, and, somehow, came up with me: Erik. Erik Ergo. Nice to meet you, I’m sure.

The last couple of years he’s been fiddling with it practically non-stop, and, if anything, he hopes we pieced together a result that reads like a fucking bullet train and does justice to what stuck with him the most after reworking a selection of about 500 pages from those 5000+ into the volume in front of you. The amount of energy committed to just about anything he set his mind to at the time. How we drove each other onward, relentlessly, and often made things so much harder than needed or healthy in the process. But in hindsight, talk is cheap. Even a shit load of it. We talked ourselves into some unnecessary and often easily avoidable frenzies, and he himself into a serious mental breakdown by the end of us, in the French Pyrenees. But boy oh boys, we sure were alive!

For the rhythm, getting more than lost in The Process, stumbling in, and out, and back in love, one overlapping, unattainable (duh!) amorous French connection, friends and family, and yes, for the sex, those fucking drugs and an emerging career as a poet.

You don’t have to like us from back then, or even sympathize. Wholesome we were most certainly not, nor always in tune with the blistering heat we radiated. For those negatively affected, sorry about that…? We tried so, so hard. Being unbearably young and much, much too beautiful.

It was a trip. 29 trips a day, every work day, to be more accurate. In your face, unapologetically hardcore and yet, at the same time, completely vulnerable. Imperial, butt naked Odysseys across some Dutch river. With, after all these years, this unique ego/slice of life and Zeitgeist document to show for it. A love story like no other we know of. So, if nothing else we guess there’s that, at least.”

Want to read it? Thanks :) Click on the image below!

Double Dutch magazine (regular) issue nr. 2 is live!

Whoot! Our March 2026 issue is live! Third Double Dutch magazine issue in total so far :) With the following:

COVER ART: Rotterdamse Haven (Rotterdam Harbour), by the Dutch artist Martin Groen!

POETRY by

The Sermon, by Lucy Olsman

The movie, by Silvia Martin

Tulip Autopsy, by David Anson Lee

Ovid seen wearing Burberry, by Carol Shillibeer

Ovid spotted leaving Shakespeare, by Carol Shillibeer

Ovid seen with Young Missy, by Carol Shillibeer

My brother’s pet, by Gary Grossman

A Sonnet for Mr spaghetti-Head, by Megan Cartwright

K Wants to Know What Dolly Means, by Rene Mullen

(VISUAL) ART by

Silhouette, by Rachel Turney

SATTVA, by Frans de Winter

Jericho, by Anselm Kiefer (and field tripped by Sander, Jasper and Frans)

Still Startled From A Dream, by Bill Wolak

Untitled, by Josiane Kouagheu

Eve III, by Gary Grossman

Projections, story by Patrick McEvoy and art by Randy Valiente

Patterned Acts of Violence, by Michael P Farmer

DUTCH TREAT in the flavors of

Haphazardly love (Te hooi en te gras), by Rob Chrispijn and translated by Benne van der Velde

Junkie, by André Manuel (+ his band Krang) and translated by Benne van der Velde

Hebban olla vogala, the oldest known poem in Old Dutch

You, now! (U, nu!), by Joost van den Vondel

When it happens to you (Als het je overkomt), by Lucas Rijneveld and translated by Vivien D. Glass

MUSIC by

Dutch Saint Nicholas Holiday songs medley featuring black(face) Pete

Join ICE, by Jesse Welles

Man in the mirror, by Michael Jackson

Ave Maria, by last recorded castrato Alessandro Moreschi

Why Do You Touch Me?, by Matt Dennison

War (SNL 1992), by Sinéad O'Connor

Don’t do anything illegal, by Charles Manson

The Rite Of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky (choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky)

These are the days of our lives, by Queen

4’33, by John Cage (performed by both The Berliner Philharmoniker & Death Metal band Dead Territory)

Thank you so much to our contributors! Want to submit for a future issue? Right here please! Cheers.

3000 visits to our magazine!

Whoot! 2000 3000 visitors and counting :) Thanks all! Issue nr. 2, due to go live in March, still promises to be just as good as our current one. Check it out? Cheers.

Submission window for our third issue is now open!

After closing the submission window for our second regular issue, during which we received a humbling 183 submissions, thank you so much for that (!), it’s now time for us to get to work and actually put together this one. That will be a true pleasure, again, due to the fantastic pieces we were fortunate enough to be able to select. If you are new here, or are one of the submitters who didn’t get selected, please try (again) for our issue nr. 3? Due to go live in May 2026. You can do so starting from today, and right here! Thanks, as always.

2000 visits to our magazine!

Whoot! 2000 visitors and counting :) Thanks all! Issue nr. 2, due to go live in March, promises to be just as good as our current one. Check it out? Cheers.

Issue Nr. 1 is live!

Question: what do Rob Chrispijn, Lieven Tavernier, Jacob Steendam, Hans Lodeizen, James Brockway, M. Vasalis, David Mc. Kay, The Smiths, Billy Holiday, Loretta Lynn, Nirvana, Aaliyah, Eminem, Sufjan Stevens, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin, Justice, Sean BW Barker, Bill Wolak, Alaina Hammond, Amanda Yskamp, Anthony George Chianese, Janina Aza Karpinska, Björk, Chris Cunnigham, Donald Gardner, Colin James, Allan Lake, Diarmuid ó Maolalaí, Stephen Barile, Paul Short, Sander Groen, Marcus Slingsby, LindaAnn LoSchiavo and Jonathan Fletcher have in common now?

Answer: apart from featuring in this first regular issue (thank you so much) they all just received a solidifyingly extra (internal) link on Double Dutch magazine!

Merry X-mas and a happy 2026!

on behalf of our entire team we wish you all a merry X-mas and an inspired/happy/friendly/peaceful 2026!

Submission window for issue nr. 2 is now open!

After closing the submission window for our first regular issue, during which we received an astounding 117 submissions, thank you so much for that (!), it’s now time for us to get to work and actually put together this first issue. That will be a true pleasure, due to the fantastic pieces we were fortunate enough to be able to select. If you are new here, or are one of the submitters who didn’t get selected, please try (again) for our issue nr. 2? Due to go live in March 2026. You can do so starting from today, and right here! Thanks, as always.