Come listen to poetry, support your poets or recite your own poem! The microphone was ready Saturday afternoon 25 January 2025 on the foyer stage of Theater aan het Spui during the Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague.

Together with Writers Unlimited, FFÛH brought literary delights to the foyer of Theater aan het Spui in two parts:

- from 13:00 to 14:00: open mic with readings by poets from FFÛH circles and by six authors who took part in Oude werken, jonge schrijvers by deBuren, Flemish-Dutch House for culture and debate, in which they read their special poem to a painting on Friday night 24 January 2025 at Het Mauritshuis. Support, listen or recite your own work. Everyone is welcome.

- From 15:00 to 16:30: festive presentation of the first FFÛH anthology with readings of the poems it contains. Nine young poets worked for a year on the publication whose main theme is the sea. The collection is called Zilt en Asfalt (Salty and Asphalt), and is published by PIP. The nine poets are: Lila Maria de Coninck, June Versluis, Gijs Huizinga, Frank van den Boom, Fester Vogels, Wouter van den Elzen, Agata Luisa Dohne, Jady van Zijl en Berthe Kemperman.

Saturday afternoon 25 January, the foyer of Theater aan het Spui was accessible free of charge. The FFÛH anthology was available after the presentation at the festival stand of bookshop De Vries Van Stockum in the foyer of Theater aan het Spui.

FFÛH is a poetry collective in its infancy. In FFÛH there is a great desire for a wider stage for the young writing talent hiding in The Hague. FFÛH is committed to putting the city behind the dunes on the map as a breeding ground for poetry. The first idea that grew out of that desire was to publish a collection of poems - by, for and about The Hague. Meanwhile, FFÛH also emerged as a platform for poetry evenings, open mics and collective writing sessions. In 2024, there were FFÛH meetings at De Utopie on Waldeck Pyrmontkade, at Waterkant in Westbroek Park and at Museum West, the former US embassy on Lange Voorhout.


Festival tip 1: for the full festival experience you joined us for the grand festival events Friday Night Unlimited (24 January) and Saturday Night Unlimited (25 January)! Both nights you chose your own route along some 20 performances, readings and conversations on five stages in Theater aan het Spui and Filmhuis Den Haag. English and Dutch spoken.

Festivaltip 2: as in 2025 Writers Unlimited presented its literature festival for 30 years, we celebrated this anniversary with Playing with Fire, a show full of music, dance and literature at Amare (Danstheater) on Sunday afternoon, 26 January. You saw and heard Spinvis, Shirma Rouse, XILLAN, Babs Gons, Joost Oomen, Zaïre Krieger, Claudia Karapanou Flamenco Trio, Royal Conservatoire Dance and percussion group Pulse led by Eli Wing, among others. Note: Dutch spoken.


From 23 to 26 January 2025, Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival The Hague was to be found in theatres, libraries and schools throughout the city: from Theater aan het Spui, Filmhuis Den Haag, Amare and Paard to Theater Dakota, Theater De Vaillant, the Laakkwartier, Nieuw Waldeck, Schilderswijk and Ypenburg libraries, the Institute of Social Studies and De Haagse Hogeschool. With over 120 writers, poets and spoken-word artists and musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. With readings, prose, poetry, storytelling, spoken word, author interviews, topical talks, films and music.