Publications
Spotlights
We champion process alongside product, which is why we shine lights on our community’s writing practices.
When it comes to creativity, we know that so much of the labor, inspiration, and process behind a piece can be invisibilized. Our Spotlights help remedy that by making the act of writing more approachable. Each Spotlight offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into one maker’s process.
Our Spotlights
Our Spotlights help make the act of writing more approachable, highlighting each maker’s inspiration and process.
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Spotlight: Dayjha McMillan
Read: Spotlight: Dayjha McMillan“By understanding my writing as music and not thought, as body and not brain, it helps me drop into a…
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Spotlight: Kevin Carson
Read: Spotlight: Kevin Carson“I am always stuck between writing the beautiful thing and writing the hard ugly thing, and I am enjoying being…
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Spotlight: Cissy Chen
Read: Spotlight: Cissy Chen“I love seeing writing as a pursuit of obsession, writing deeper and deeper into obsessions until I find a way…
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Spotlight: Passant Eltarek
Read: Spotlight: Passant Eltarek“A question I’ve been asking myself in recent years, and that my work is definitely now asking of my reader,…
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Spotlight: Alex Bortell
Read: Spotlight: Alex Bortell“If my ability to reinvest myself in a piece is the roadblock to completion, then perhaps my motivation to write…
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Spotlight: Gina Velasco
Read: Spotlight: Gina Velasco“To understand how one’s stories and one’s interiority are rooted in the somatic has been key to my process as…
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Spotlight: Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
Read: Spotlight: Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin“I ask myself how far I can push my writing, in terms of both content and craft, and I ask…
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Spotlight: Eve Xin
Read: Spotlight: Eve Xin“Where would I be as a writer and person in this world, if not for the stories I have read…
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Spotlight: Ha Kiet Chau
Read: Spotlight: Ha Kiet Chau“I can’t predict what will happen tomorrow or the next five years, but I want to keep shifting and evolving as…
Publications
“Seventh Wave’s approach to publication is truly radical in the best of ways.”
Our issues explore topics that encapsulate the most pressing social issues of our times.
We give our editorial keys to curators in the community to publish their own anthologies on our platforms.
“There is a different feeling to being published as part of a cohort, all writing toward the same theme.
Whatever that feeling is — community, care, solidarity, grace — Seventh Wave, in its gestures, is holding this space, a space where our words can not only sit side by side but as part of a shared vision.”
— David Naimon, 2023 “On Rivers” Community Anthology contributor
