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The twenty-second issue of DoubleSpeak arrives as another instalment in an ongoing, unhurried conversation. This edition brings together contributions from India, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Australia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, the United States, Zimbabwe, and beyond—a reminder that the page continues to host exchanges that borders rarely allow so easily. Across these pages, distinctions of form and intent dissolve: a journalist’s memoir of a 1950s London childhood sits beside a translated Italian poem from 1901; a photo-essay staged against Renaissance painting shares space with a comic tale of a bank robbery gone sideways; a researcher’s essay on digital wellbeing stands not far from a lament for the dead of Gaza. Veteran contributors share the issue with students and first-time collaborators; a pen name shared by three writers across an ocean of distance sits alongside individual voices writing entirely alone. The works—spanning poetry, fiction, essay, translation, and photo-story—move between private memory and public reckoning, without settling into a single register or position. What holds the issue together is not thematic uniformity but a shared willingness to be read closely, and to look at the ordinary—a fox in a garden, a toy passed into open hands, a forty-minute bus ride to an airport—until it yields something larger. Twenty-one issues in, DoubleSpeak continues to resemble less a fixed publication and more an evolving constellation of voices—sustained by participation, shaped by difference, and grounded in the continuing possibility that language and image can create spaces of attention beyond the limits of place and moment.
List of Contributors for June 2026 issue
DoubleSpeak is a literary magazine which is edited for quality and integrity, and it is absolutely free. Guided strongly by the values of free-expression, academic honesty and equality of all individuals, the magazine aims to maintain a platform where voices from various sources will have a larger audience. We hope that the unadulterated joy of finding new things within and around us, will remain the main focus of our team.
The editorial team is a group of enthusiastic volunteers who are successful professionals in their own fields. Learn more about the team members and the idea of DoubleSpeak. Also go through our policies, which undoubtedly are the simplest among the ones you would find anywhere
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