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The twenty-third issue of DoubleSpeak arrives as the next chapter in a conversation that refuses to end, and we are glad of it. This edition gathers voices from Croatia, Russia, India, the United States, England, Wales, Australia, Pakistan, across Africa, and well beyond, a map of places that seldom share a table but meet here, on the page, as neighbours. The people behind these works are as varied as the places they write from: seasoned writers and seasoned reporters, students and first-time contributors, retired lives returning to the desk, theatre practitioners and stage performers, doctors and engineers who spend their days in other languages and come here to speak in this one. Some pieces arrive with the confidence of long practice; others arrive with the trembling courage of a first submission, and we hold both with equal care. Across poetry, prose, translation, and image, the issue moves between the intimate and the urgent, between the quiet interior of a single life and the larger tremors of a shared world, without insisting that either must win. What binds these pages is not a single theme but a single faith: that attention is a form of hope, and that reading one another closely remains among the most human things we can do. Twenty-two issues in, DoubleSpeak continues to grow less like a publication and more like a gathering, one that is only complete when you join it. So read slowly, linger where something stirs, and share these pages with someone who might need them. And please write to us. Tell us what moved you, what unsettled you, what you would like to see next. Your letters are part of this conversation too, and we would love to hear your voice among the others.
List of Contributors for September 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
