AQ Holds 2023 Yearbook Reading at the ABC, Amsterdam
AQ Holds 2023 Yearbook Reading at the ABC, Amsterdam
[AMSTERDAM] On Friday, 9 February 2024, Amsterdam Quarterly held its annual book launch and reading for its 2023 Yearbook at the American Book Center in Amsterdam. In attendance were AQ writers Simon Brod, Darya Danesh, Monique van Maare, Bryan R. Monte, Pat Seman, Marcus Slingsby, and Angela Williams, who all read from their work.
The reading was held in the ABC’s second-floor White Room and had an audience which continued to grow so events coordinator, Luke Nyman, had to break out the First Friday Open Mic chairs to accommodate the audience. During the reading’s interval, María Minaya demonstrated the ABC’s Espresso Book Machine, which prints and binds copies of the yearbook on request.
The AQ 2023 Yearbook features art, essays, fiction, memoirs, news, a photoessay, photography, poetry, and book and art reviews about three themes: No Planet B (AQ36), On the Move (AQ37), and MACRO micro (AQ38). Its 143 pages include photography by Jim Ross and Bob Ward, artwork by Jj D’Onofrio and Samarra Prahlad, as well as poetry and prose.
Headlining AQ39, out now with work about Generation, is an interview with poet, writer, and professor Timothy Liu. AQ39 also features work by poets B. Anne Adraiens, Emma Atkins, Jane Blanchard, Joan Byrne, Naomi Foyle, Kevin Grauke, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Bryan R. Monte, Nora Nadjarian, Carl Palmer, Marcus Slingsby, Sharon Whitehill, and Mantz Yorke, fiction writers William Cass, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Zach Keali’i Murphy, and Marcus Slingsby as well as photographer Karin Chastain Turner. AQ’s next issue, AQ40, theme Vibration(s), has its reading period during April 2024. Check the submissions page for other information. https://www.amsterdamquarterly.nl/submissions/
Amsterdam Quarterly was founded in 2011 by Bryan R. Monte. Over its first 13 years, it has featured work in twelve genres: art, articles, essays, drama, fiction, interviews, memoirs, news, photoessays, photography, poetry, and reviews. International, award-winning writers interviewed over its 13 years include Kim Addonizio, Jacob M. Appel, Andrei Codrescu, Moira Egan, Kate Foley, Philip Gross, Timothy Liu, Susan Lloy, Ed Mycue, Naomi Shihab Nye, Philibert Schogt, David Sedaris, Joan Z. Shore, and David Trinidad.