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: Winita Frederick
Read: Spotlight: Winita Frederick“Once I stopped externalizing my need to have my aspirations validated, I could put all of that energy back into…
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Spotlight: Seelai Karzai
Read: Spotlight: Seelai Karzai“How can we wrap our heads around loss when it is an ongoing process? How can we find joy in…
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Spotlight: Rukan Saif
Read: Spotlight: Rukan Saif“I have tried not writing about my women, my identity, etc., but that never works out. Instead I’m leaning into…
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Spotlight: Qing A. Saville
Read: Spotlight: Qing A. Saville“For me, writing is intense somatic work; art is about restoring, playing, and opening up.”
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Spotlight: Paige Befeler
Read: Spotlight: Paige Befeler“The body is one of the best ways to express yourself, existing within the push and pull to exist in…
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Spotlight: Nimarta Narang
Read: Spotlight: Nimarta Narang“That is how the short story feels to me — tightly constructed narrative where details inevitably get shuffled around with…
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Spotlight: Mickee Cheung
Read: Spotlight: Mickee Cheung“I can only keep writing and hope that whatever comes out reaches anyone else who needs to hear the same…
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Spotlight: Mary Kelly
Read: Spotlight: Mary Kelly“A poem to me is like a small cat that curls itself around your legs as you wait for the bus.”
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Spotlight: Lillian Y. Lin
Read: Spotlight: Lillian Y. Lin“Writing is a documented journey of self-growth as well as a way to be seen and heard.”
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
