The theme for AQ43 (reading period April 2025) is Metamorphosis. Send us your Kafkaesque fantasies of being transformed into a giant cockroach or perhaps somewhat smaller disorienting episodes, changes, or transformations which have affected you or your characters’ lives.
You may submit work to Amsterdam Quarterly at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org
Work must be previously unpublished and submitted in a recent Microsoft Word file format. (Self-published work is considered as published). Poems should be no longer than two A4 pages; articles, fiction, essays and other prose, no more than 3,000 words. Artwork and photography files should be no larger than one megabyte (1MB). Submit no more than two pieces (for example, two poems or one poem and one short story) per person per reading period. Please indicate your last name and Amsterdam Quarterly submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
AQ retains first publication and serialization rights for its online magazine as well as for its print-on-demand yearbook. No simultaneous submissions. Please note: due to increased postage and printing costs and new customs duties and tariffs, as of issue #33 (spring 2022), AQ will only be able to offer one copy of the AQ Yearbook as payment to its published artists and writers for their work.