Programs
Through our residencies, One-Time Talks, and community events, we’re creating nurturing spaces for our community to flourish.
“This residency was a reaffirmation of the power of community.”
— Swastika Jajoo, 2021 Spring Resident
We bring artists, writers, and activists together to exchange ideas and nurture each other’s creative practices.
In-Person Residencies
Our in-person residencies are structured to nourish your entire creative being.
Our in-person residency program is reserved for Seventh Wave alum — past magazine and anthology contributors, past digital residents, and past team members. These spaces provide a place for our community to get to know each other, and to deepen their relationship to their own work. At our residencies, you’ll get the chance to unplug, wander, nap in a hammock, or sit by a body of water — while also showing up for your fellow residents.
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Apply to our Spring 2025 digital residency
Learn more: Apply to our Spring 2025 digital residencyThe call has been extended to 11:59 p.m. PST on Sunday, Jan. 26.
One-Time Talks
We build community through conversation.
Together with both established and emerging writers, we make literary spaces more accessible via one-time talks, reading events, accountability sessions, and launch parties that encourage conversation across disciplines and identities.
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On Thresholds
Learn more: On ThresholdsThis session combines lecture with generative time and guidance to explore thresholds, not only as figurative motifs but as loci of power, spaces bound in the present in-definite, and essential…
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Overcoming through Gratitude: Transmuting Pain into Purpose
Learn more: Overcoming through Gratitude: Transmuting Pain into PurposeThis generative session centers on the transformative power of gratitude, encouraging participants to embrace even their most painful experiences as vital resources for growth and development.
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On Sacredness: a generative session on redefining ‘sacred’ and writing awe and radical presence
Learn more: On Sacredness: a generative session on redefining ‘sacred’ and writing awe and radical presenceThis session will focus on expanding ideas of ‘sacredness’, and will address both how we write about what is sacred, and how we find a sense of ritual and sacredness…
“I feel like the structure and open-ended, generative nature of the program is perfect for where I am in my process.”
— Seferiana Day, 2024 Summer Resident
For writers looking to build a creative practice, we invite you to join our accountability sessions, which are 60-minute virtual spaces facilitated by Seventh Wave community members. There will be occasional writing prompts and shares, but the bulk of these sessions are meant for you to hold space for your own work.
