Submit your work to "On Endings," "On Queer Family," "On Gaming," or "On Prayer" by July 18.
If you are a writer or artist looking to submit your work for publication, take a look at our four calls, open right now: “On Endings,” curated by Xu Li; “On Queer Family,” curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal; “On Gaming,” curated by dezireé a. brown; and “On Prayer,” curated by Para Vadhahong. What are these calls about and how can you submit?
- “On Endings,” curated by Xu Li, is looking for poetry — long(er) poems especially encouraged — lyric essays, and creative nonfiction. “This anthology invites a dwelling in ending(s). An ending can be a material one, a manner of re-orientation, or a point of private and public departure and transformation that carries itself, despite itself, onward. What are the different gestures an ending can hold? What are its passages, its fugitivities? Its escalations and unmakings? Its endurings?”
- “On Queer Family,” curated by Isaiah Yonah Back-Gaal, is looking for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and multimodal art. “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.”
- “On Gaming,” curated by dezireé a. brown, is looking for creative writing — poetry, flash fiction, flash CNF, short screenplays, hybrid, and interactive works — and visual art. “This anthology will speak to both the joy and nostalgia that can be experienced playing video games as well as the structural inequities reflected in the genre. I want to see your clan battles, love stories, respawns, journeys, horrors, dreams, personal vendettas, and moments of rage and quiet reflection. In what ways have video games impacted or changed you? How have they helped you survive our present world and envision new ones?”
- “On Prayer,” curated by Para Vadhahong, invites any creative expression — poems, narratives, music, photographs, songs, and art — about ancestors and spirits, gods and ghosts, beloveds and other entities. “To whom do you pray for nourishment and justice in the face of oppression? What kind of faith do you carve out for yourself? What private, public, communal, mythical, or cultural rituals do you draw your own sense of devotion from? I invite you to send irreverent work that pushes boundaries of prayer, that reclaims godhood for yourselves in the search for day-to-day meaning.”
- Submission Details. Submissions are open until 7/18, via our Submittable page. There is a $7 submission fee, which you can waive by submitting directly to submit@seventhwavemag.com. You may only submit to 1 anthology at a time. 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.
- Curious to learn more? Join our Zoom Info Session on Monday, July 15, from 3-4 p.m. PST. We’ll be talking about our submission, selection, and editorial processes. Register here. This will be recorded. You may request a recording by signing up for the session or emailing submit@seventhwavemag.com.
Submissions are open until July 18. You can find more information about submitting on our FAQ page. To submit, please visit our Submittable page.
