Deadline extended for “On Queer Family”

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted to our 2024 Community Anthologies. We have extended the submission deadline to Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal’s Community Anthology, “On Queer Family,” to Sunday, July 28. Why did we extend this deadline and how do you submit? See below.

• Why did we extend the deadline? Submissions for all four Community Anthologies were closed on 7/18. On Friday, 7/19, we extended submissions for “On Gaming,” as we received multiple requests for extensions the previous night. Over the next few days, we received enough requests for extensions to “On Queer Family” that this week, we decided to re-open and extend the deadline to 7/28. If you submitted to “On Queer Family” within the original deadline, but would like to make any modifications to your submissions, please reach out to us directly at submit@seventhwavemag.com. We want to honor those who submitted within the original deadline, but also extend grace to those who might need a little more time to submit. Due to the extenuating circumstances of the world today, we enact these policies to meet our community where they’re at, as best as we can. We thank everyone for your interest, support, and understanding. See more information below.
• “On Queer Family,” curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal, is looking for poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, or multimodal art by queer, trans, and gender nonconforming writers. “Queer people have always defined family on our own terms. From the legendary houses of Harlem’s ball scene to lesbian separatist communes, queer people imagine, reimagine, and materialize new ways of living and living together. For this anthology, I want to honor the intentional, loving, resilient, subaltern, oppositional families that queer people create: your drag mothers and trans siblings, your co-ops and polycules, your queer entanglements with nature and non-human kin, your chosen lineages across time and space. In all its manifold forms, queer family is a project of world making, of fashioning loving communities and liberated selves through desire and mutual exchange. As Joss Lake writes, ‘Well, isn’t queer adulthood, if one is lucky, having the impossible childhood of your desires?’ What are your impossible queer dreams? What does kinship look like beyond the ties enshrined by the State? What is the role of the family in our collective liberation? This is an invitation for models of care that help us imagine beyond the violence of the present.”  
• Submission Details. Submissions have been extended to “On Queer Family” until 7/28. To submit, please send your full application to submit@seventhwavemag.com. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but not previously published work. And we welcome prose up to 3,000 words and up to 4 poems for poetry. 
• What to submit? Please be sure to read the full call for “On Queer Family,” which can be found here and here. Please be sure to send all of the information asked for in this PDF to submit@seventhwavemag.com. That includes, among other things, your bio, a statement of interest, and the work you want considered for publication. For this extension, there is no $7 fee, so you may simply submit by sending your complete application to submit@seventhwavemag.com.