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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 thirty-eighth issue (AQ38) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org.

AQ38’s theme is MACRO micro. For this issue, we accepted work in six genres about scales of perception, crossing boundaries, families, climate change, illness, ship breaking, exploration, death, politics, religion, meteorites, black holes, natural disasters, carnivores, and the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

The theme for AQ39, (reading period the month of January 2024), is Generation. For this issue, send AQ your pieces about your generation; its production or its cohorts. For example: How big is your carbon footprint? How can you live a life that generates less waste for our ailing planet? Another approach to this theme might be to define some of the characteristics of your generation in comparison to others, for example Boomers v. Gen Z. Yet another might comment on your production of solar and/or wind power to help save the planet.

For AQ40, (reading period April 2024), the theme is Vibration. Send us pieces about music, background noise, or other aspects of your sensory or extrasensory perception. What do you see, feel, and/or remember when you hear certain pieces of music or environmental sounds? How have you been able to minimise the noise and increase the good vibrations in your life?

AQ41’s theme, (reading period July 2024), is Migration. Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals or the geographical dislocations and/or temporary or permanent emigrations of people, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys.