Double Dutch issue nr. 0 has gone 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 cant’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

• Gerard Nolst Trenité

• 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!

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 :)