Amsterdam Quarterly publishes 15th yearbook; party/reading 6 Feb., ABC, Amsterdam

Amsterdam Quarterly publishes 15th yearbook; party/reading 6 Feb. ABC Amsterdam

On Friday, 6 February 2026, Amsterdam Quarterly (AQ) will hold a launch party and reading to celebrate the publication of its fifteenth, annual, print-on-demand yearbook. The event will take place from 4 to 5.30 p.m. at the American Book Center, Spui 12, Amsterdam. Entrance is free. (However, please RSVP by 31 January at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org.) Drinks and nibbles are provided.

The Amsterdam Quarterly 2025 Yearbook features art, essays, fiction, memoirs, news, photography, poetry, and book reviews about three themes: Exploration (AQ42), Metamorphosis (AQ43), and Between Hope & Despair (AQ44). Its 156 pages include artwork by Kiera Faber, Ed Hawkins and Edward Michael Supranowicz, essays by Rebecca Heath Anderson and Terry E. Hill, fiction by Caleb Coy, Barlow Crassmont, Madhumati Dutta, Anne Eyries, Mary Granfield, Bari Lynn Hein, Ross McQueen, Nancy Ludmerer, and Guy Russell, memoirs by Lucinda Guard Crofton, Bryan R. Monte, Jane Thomas, and the late Angela Williams, photography by Peter Jonker and Rink Foto, as well as poetry by Netherlands-based writers Simon Brod, Monique van Maare, Monte, Pat Seman, Marcus Slingsby, and the late Angela Williams.

During the party, Brod, Caroline Cronjäger, Van Maare, Monte, Seman, and Slingsby shall read from their work as well as from the work of Williams. The reading shall also include a tribute to Maria Miniya, who will be retiring after printing AQ’s fifteenth yearbook on the Espresso Book Machine (EBM).

Amsterdam Quarterly 2025 Yearbook
cover photo © 2023 by Peter Jonker

Amsterdam Quarterly was founded in 2011. Its mission is to publish, promote, and comment on art and writing in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world. AQ has previously published work in twelve genres: art, articles, drama, essays, fiction, interviews, memoirs, news, photoessays, photography, poetry, and art and book reviews of local and international writers and artists. Notable local writers, published in past issues, include novelist Philibert Schogt and poet Kate Foley. Internationally-known writers include NPR and BBC writer and humorist, David Sedaris, American Academy of Poets Chancellor Naomi Shihab Nye, NPR poet and writer Andrei Codrescu, and 2009 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize winner, Philip Gross.

AQ’s themes for 2026 will be: Climate Overshoot (AQ45), Summer (AQ46), and Culture (AQ47), with reading periods in January, April and July 2026 respectively.

AQ is published online in the spring, summer and autumn at www.amsterdamquarterly.org and at www.amsterdamquarterly.nl and as a print-on-demand compilation yearbook in the winter. In addition, AQ has a writers’ group that meets virtually on the third Sunday of the month from September to June. Entrance to this group is open to Netherlands-based writers who have been previously published in Amsterdam Quarterly.