DoubleSpeak

30/03/2024

DoubleSpeak is three years old now. We haven't made any money since, neither have we paid to any of our authors or artists, well that was the idea and we have survived being true to our promise. I believe DoubleSpeak is a testimony to the fact that a space which is meant to become a home for a variety of forms in words and images might not need money to survive, but the love and trust of the partners. Instead what remains important is our collaborative journey, in which we all are trying to find a meaning through these creative pieces. As we bring our thirteenth issue online we look back and count, not what we have spent, but the number of creative minds that we could bring together on this platform for the world to read and share. DoubleSpeak's success is as much ours as it is for our authors and artists. Without their trust in our idea and vision DoubleSpeak could not have come this far. As we bring to you, again, a host of interesting poems, stories, essays, mini-albums, photo-stories, translations and letters, we look back and celebrate the power that creative expression can give us. Poets, authors and fine artists from all around the world have given their works for this issue. We have poems from USA, UK, Australia, India, Nepal and parts of Europe. We have translations from Hindi, Latin. German and Persian. We have digital art, photographs and handmade mosaics in the visual sections. We have stories written by seasoned writers and even a middle-schooler. We have essays about motherhood, teaching and even love for a quaint bookstore. For the first time we have a letter written in its most imaginative form. I remain grateful to all the contributors for their trust and I am also thankful to my readers without whose encouragement we wouldn't have reached this far. I hope you'd enjoy reading this issue. Please write to us about your views on the published pieces, we are keen to publish your views as letters in the next issue. Happy reading.

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16/02/2024

Call for Submissions
Your creative pieces and our free magazine.

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2024
Next issue: March 31, 2024

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30/12/2023

DoubleSpeak Magazine is ending this year on a high. We have a very interesting issue online now, which unlike the others is not heavy alone in poems. We have an excellent collection of short stories this time and a play as well. We have an array of photo-stories from university students which they made for their coursework. Somehow, largely due to their teacher’s inspiration they submitted their fresh and new ideas for a larger audience to see. There is a first in this issue which involves two very bright and young imaginative individuals. One is just four years old and the other is in seventh grade. DoubleSpeak has never published children’s works but this time along with illustrations from enthusiastic and encouraging artists, we are showcasing short-stories and a poem written by young authors in the collaboration space. We also have an excellent and long translation of a fascinating and original Marathi text. This issue does not have a lot in the non-fiction section and neither in the photography section. Yet we have one very empathetic and thoughtful essay on the Israel and Palestine war and two mini-albums in monochrome from two very different kind of photographers. I hope you will enjoy going through the twelfth issue of DoubleSpeak and will write to us opining about many of the published pieces.
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10/11/2023

Your creative pieces in our free magazine.

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The December 31 issue will have no specific theme.

So...send us your works.

29/09/2023

DoubleSpeak joyfully brings to you its eleventh issue. The theme for this issue is Identity and Perception. Matching the scope and diversity of the theme, we have different kinds of artistic pieces. Poems and fiction about love, desire, observations, dark-humour, struggle and even angels have found their respective pages in this magazine. We have experimental forms of fiction, photostories in the form of a poem, book-review and image-heavy life- story as essays, exploration of autobiographical expression through photostories, collaboration between people who’ve never met and many more. As always DoubleSpeak could bring together curated pieces from authors and artists all around the world (Africa, UK, Belarus, Egypt, USA, Malaysia and India to name a few) and can take pride in giving opportunities to aspirants as well as old enthusiasts alongside a few seasoned practitioners. The belief and hope that you will enjoy browsing through this issue matching the enthusiasm of the contributors, are still running strong.

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04/08/2023

Call for submissions for the September issue.

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Theme: Identity and Perception
Deadline: September 15, 2023

29/06/2023

DoubleSpeak is celebrating it’s 10th issue. For the first time in 27 months of being online as a platform for expression, the magazine is showcasing pieces based on a particular theme – the old and the new. The idea of how the old and new collide to seek their respective spaces and reverence, how new can be the same as the old, how old eventually, owing to the trials of time, gives way to the new, how despair and hope, death and new-birth, old importants and new essentials, development and heritage – all of that are expressed through different creative pieces from around the world. This time, the majority of the artists are the ones who had published before in DoubleSpeak, along with a few first-timers. We have one-act plays, essays on consent, films, esoteric and realistic stories, poems of all kinds, images of old and new pretty faces and things, collaborative pieces of images and words and of course a solitary translation of beautiful Bengali poem. It’s amazing how people from almost all continents have come to support a free online magazine like DoubleSpeak. We hope that you would enjoy reading the magazine and will write to us with your views.

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05/05/2023

DoubleSpeak is going to publish its 10th Issue on June 30, 2023.
Calling for submissions: Poems, Fiction, Essays, Images and Photostories, Translations and Collaborative Pieces.
Theme: Old and New, Deadline: June 15, 2023
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27/01/2023

It's our second anniversary issue...send us your best works...poems, stories, essays, photographs, translations and collaborative pieces.

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30/12/2022

DoublSpeak is bringing to you its 8th issue. It is an absolute joy, albeit surreal to a large extent that this little and free online magazine is hosting authors and artists from around the world. All the contributors are kind as they responded to the requests and calls for submissions to make this issue alive. Quite like the previous issues, we bring to you poems, stories, essays, photographs, photostories and translations from various Indian artists. To go with it we have words and images from all around the world – Croatia, Australia, England, African Continent, United States of America, and a few more. For the first time we are publishing songs in the poem section by a Croatian song-writer. Also translations from old Norse and Latin texts is a new addition to this issues. The core fabric of our authors and artists speaks about the need to celebrate diversity in form and content. Being an atheist it was an experience to publish works with deep religious and spiritual essence in them and yet this issue brings together certain pieces which have Hinduism, Islam and Catholicism in them. We hope you will love reading this issue. Please read and share with your friends and family. It is completely free. We encourage you to write to us with your critical and analytical views about the pieces published. We will publish them as letters. As the managing editor of DoubleSpeak, I remain grateful, as always, to my friends and the artists who had faith in us. Use the following link to enjoy a happy reading. Hope the new reading will make your new year a bit richer in experience.

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18/11/2022

DoubleSpeak Magazine calls for submissions of your literary and visual creations.

Next issue will be online on December 31 2022. Deadline: December 15, 2022.

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29/09/2022

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DoublSpeak is bringing to you its 7th issue. It is a bit overwhelming how authors and artists from around the world responded to the requests and calls for submissions to make this issue alive. We have poems and stories from all around the world – Russia, Iran, Turkey, Ireland, United States of America, Philippines, England and of course India. For the first time we are publishing a one act play in the fiction section. Also the occurrence of digitally created images to compliment a poem as a photo-story is a first of many. We have wonderful collaborative pieces by friends and people who never even met each other. We have two very beautifully written letters to critically analyse two of our previously published pieces. Our authors and artists comprise a very diverse group of scientists, professional and amateur poets, film-makers, recovering alcoholics, corporate professionals, doctors, students and academicians. We hope you will love reading this issue. Please read and share with your friends and family. It is completely free. We encourage you to write to us with your critical and analytical views about the pieces published. We will publish them as letters. As the managing editor of DoubleSpeak, I remain grateful to my friends and the artists who had faith in us. Happy reading!
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25/07/2022

Call for submissions
Deadline end of August
Issue coming on September 30, 2022

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29/06/2022

After six issues of so many different kinds of creative pieces, DoubleSpeak is reflecting happily on what all have been achieved thus far. Above all, DoubleSpeak has managed to gain trust among many creative artists of words and images, from all around the world. In this issue as well, we bring to you evidences of such trusting gestures. We are publishing in this issue a range of poems, stories, essays, photo-albums, photostories, translations, and interesting collaborations. Apart from a host of Indian artists, we have artistic contributions from Europe, Africa, America and our neighbouring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh. We have pieces written by both internationally published and aspiring poets and authors. We have words and images by scientists, teachers, advocates, students and even dreamers. This issue brings to you some excellent pieces and even ones which would need a lot of feedback and encouragement from the readers. The pieces which you would find wanting for any sort of constructive criticism, please do write to us as letters. We are honest enough to publish them in the coming issue as letters. We hope you all would enjoy this issue and continue to support a free online magazine like ours. I remain grateful to all my friends for their encouragement and support.

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02/06/2022

Another call for submissions: prose, poetry, translations, images, critiques of published works and collaborative pieces.
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16/05/2022

Calling for Submissions.
June Issue of DoubleSpeak Magazine.
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30/03/2022

What makes a free online magazine successful or (more precisely) celebrate the first anniversary with unmatched joy and excitement? May be participation of eager and conscious artists, hope of a space for free expression which is not influenced by the need to finding an financial actualisation and unfathomable love and support of friends. That’s how we, at DoubleSpeak, can sum up our journey through this first year in online publication. Majority of the works came from India, as the founders are from India. Yet it must be said that in times when phrases like ‘life in a global village’ are becoming true in our lives, the social media platforms helped us to host pieces from many countries from almost all continents.
This issue is special for many reasons, anniversary being just one of them. This issue has pieces from the same author who simultaneously contributed (self-confessed) both a right-wing fiction and a poem celebrating a left-wing political leader. This issue has evidences that we are learning to publish haiga in the proper format. This issue has ballads from Egypt, artistic expression of hostel walls through a photostory, magnificence of the Northern Lights and even expressionist works of fine artists. We are publishing historical essays, views of current affairs like the Hijab-row or invasion of Ukraine as well. It must be said that many pieces would require feedback from the readers which would help the artists improve their craft. So I would like to invite all of you to read the pieces, share with your friends and family and most importantly give us feedback to bring you more enjoyable, striking and truthful pieces of creating.
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12/02/2022

If you are creative...send us your works..if you are a critic..share your opinions on the published works...we promise to publish them as letters...

Calling for submissions for the March issue of DoubleSpeak Magazine.

20/01/2022

Calling for Submissions for the anniversary issue of DoubleSpeak Magazine.
Send us your poems, prose, photos, translations and collaborative projects.

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30/12/2021

There is a tremendous joy in knowing that there is still unfathomable kindness that I will always find in my friends and friends of those friends and probable friends on social media. Sailing on that tide of kindness DoubleSpeak Magazine has reached a milestone. with its last issue of the first year in publication out and online.
This issue managed to reach far more creative people all around the world and we are fortunate to have received creative pieces from India, USA, UK, UAE, Australia, Bosnia and South Africa. Like the previous issues this one also brings to you some wonderful works in words, images, abstraction and critical thoughts. The authors and photographers were very kind to have shared their creative work for free with an open magazine like ours and we are grateful for that. The range of topics that are covered in this issue is quite a fascinating one. We have descriptive to abstract word-play in the poem section (by far the most populated). We have historical, urban, horror-fantasy, mildly political and even humorous stories in the fiction section. Our essays talk about religious scriptures, science, travel, social issues and even cricket. The photo albums and photo-stories have both abstract and real frames taking us through the world of lenses and imagination. We have in the translation section poems of very famous poets of Hindi and Bengali literature along with a sweet homage from a son to his father. The collaboration section has one of the most distinctive evidences of creative pieces coming out from intriguing partnerships. We are happy to have received a letter from one of our reader as well.
Hope the readers will read and share the creative pieces. I invite you all to come and go through the magazine pages. Write to us what you think of the published work. If you want to critique the pieces, we would publish your analysis as letters in the next issue.
Wishing all of you a wonderful new year ahead, with good reading, good health and lot of peace.

22/11/2021

Our Previous Issues are available for Download now.
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13/11/2021

Calling for submissions for the fourth issue of DoubleSpeak Magazine.
Send us your poems, short-stories, essays, photographs, photostories, translations and collaborative works. Send us letters critiquing the pieces of the current issue which is online.

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29/09/2021

29/09/2021

Three months isn't a small stretch of time and yet they seemed a little too less to gather some works of my friends and soon-to-be-friends in the third issue of DoubleSpeak. I am grateful to all the authors and photographers who have been so kind and patient to my innumerable calls and reminders for their submissions.
It is important to reiterate the fundamental idea behind the magazine DoubleSpeak - a way to communicate meaningfully and empathically. This issue of the magazine brings all sorts of creative pieces, revealing a range of emotions and yet what it promises is a space to share, be seen and be heard (read).
I would be very happy if you could find some time to read the pieces, share them with your friends and most importantly critique them in a civilised and educated manner. DoubleSpeak publishes the critiques of the published works in forms of letters.
I hope you will enjoy reading this issue.
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Express and be heard… A literary magazine, a window, a voice and probably a bit more… Doublespeak is a literary magazine. This could have been all that we wanted here to be shown and ye…

27/07/2021

Calling for Submissions for the third issue of DoubleSpeak.

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30/06/2021

With great joy and excitement, the 2nd issue of DoubleSpeak Magazine has come online. This issue has many contributors, ranging from seasoned authors to aspiring ones, amateur photographers, painters to professional cinematographers, academic critics, teachers to research scholars. We are so thankful for the generosity of our authors and artists who submitted their pieces for a completely free online magazine like ours.

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We invite you all to read through the pages, share with you friends and family if you like the pieces and most of all critique the works. Write to us with your views about the published pieces and we will publish them as letters in our next issue.

Thank you.

14/06/2021

DoubleSpeak Magazine's second issue coming out on June 30. Last call for submissions.

09/06/2021

Inviting Submissions for the June 30 issue. Please visit the guidelines page for more details.

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02/06/2021

Celebrating our contributors...
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