Submission window for issue nr. 2 is now open!
submission window for Double Dutch magazine’s second regular issue 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.
1000 visits to our magazine!
1000 visits to our website! And our first regular issue hasn’t even gone live yet… Thank you so much for your interest in Double Dutch magazine! We hope you’ll revisit us soon. Cheers.
So far. And our first regular issue hasn’t even gone live yet… Thank you so much for visiting/submitting (with) us! We’ll do our very best to get you to want to do so again, and again! Cheers.
New segment: Going Dutchtube!
I’ve been scouring the internet for Dutch poetry, translated into English, to maybe showcase here for a couple of months now, and have been loving every second of it. That includes YouTube, obviously, and boys oh boys, there are some beauties out there! Plus, not unimportant, linking and then highlighting such a video here on Double Dutch magazine is A LOT easier copyright wise? So much so that we at Double Dutch magazine decided to start a whole new segment: Going Dutchtube!, for which we’ll pick one of those videos at a time and give ‘em some much deserved extra fondling. Doing this also enables us to include poets and translators we admire but who are notoriously hard to get in touch with, for example, or, again, whose poetry is a real pain in the butt to get the rights to. Win-win, eh? We sure think so. Starting said segment off, therefore, is the esteemed writer and translator David Colmer, who’s reading his magnificent translation of De mislukte fee by the Dutch writer, poet and full on icon Annie M.G. Schmidt on the excellent channel Translators Aloud. Please enjoy!
right here!
Double Dutch issue nr. 0 has gone live!
Double Dutch magazine issue nr. 0 is live!
We’re up and running! Double Dutch magazine issue nr. 0 has officially gone live :) We’re so, so proud of this little magazine we’ve put together, and can’t wait for you, our readers, to experience and enjoy everything Double Dutch magazine has to offer. We plan to publish a new issue very other month, starting with issue nr. 1 in January 2026, which is looking very solid because the first submissions have already started to come in!
Thank you so very much for that.
In the mean time we hope you’ll take your sweet time reading/looking through what we’ve been able to put together so far? We chose music we admire for the sheer audacity of it, for its inherent painful truth, or just the ‘in your face’ energy it exhumes. Onno has gone very personal with the art he wanted to show, choosing pieces he actually came face to face with, where I have searched the webs for poetry that has, on one way or another, touched generations (and snuck some of my own stuff in there as well, obviously.) We are especially proud, though, of our first ‘Dutch treat’ section, with contributions from
our current Dutch national poet laureate Babs Gons,
whose poem got translated by the poetry/translation legend Donald Gardner
the Dutch ‘Beatles of poetry’ rolled into one Ingmar Heytze,
translated by no other than Robert Dorsman
one of my more favorite poets: (can relate to his restlessness I guess) J. Slauerhoff,
who got the full on, awards winning Paul Vincent treatment
a national treasure in cabaret/musical writing in the person of poet/lyricist Guus vleugel (R.I.P.)
and last but most (sorry others!) my personal hero the poet/writer/lyricist Rob Chrispijn, who I WILL be featuring and publishing more of in the near and not so near future!
We want to give a special shout out to our long time friend and artist Frans de Winter, for allowing us to use one of his beautiful art pieces as cover art for our issue nr. 0! Thanks mate.
Want in on our little corner of the interwebs? Submit right here, please! We’re not charging any reading fees, nor are we selling different subscription tiers. … Yeah, labors of love, indeed. If you like what we do and want to help out in any other way, though, you could always consider tipping our jar? Much appreciated!
Double Dutch magazine is a proud (new) member of CLMP!
Double Dutch magazine is a proud (new) member of the community of literary magazines & presses a.k.a. CLMP!
We from Double Dutch magazine are happy to report that we got accepted as a new associative member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, a.k.a. CLMP! Klick here to learn who they are and what they’re all about.
Double Dutch magazine is partnering up with Duotrope/Duosuma!
Finding an easy to use, back-end user friendly and, not unimportant, affordable partner to help us with managing the submissions part of the Double Dutch magazine initiative AND get us noticed/out there was… really easy actually! Click to find out more, and start your free trial period right now. End of (first news) story :)
