Publications
The Magazine
We publish it all — prose and poetry, visual art, excerpts from plays, interdisciplinary experiments, and audio stories — so long as the piece is engaging with our topic in an interesting way. This is what makes each issue all the more textured and nuanced, each conversation that much richer in its complexity.
The Magazine
Our issues explore topics that encapsulate the most pressing social issues of our times.
For each issue, our contributors respond to a call for submissions that was carefully crafted by a handful of our community members: past contributors, current team members, and the occasional guest curator.
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Who Gets to Belong?
Read the issue: Who Gets to Belong?Who gets to belong? Who gets to decide? Why belong? What is worth belonging to?
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Issue 2
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Labels
Read the issue: LabelsThe labels that are imposed upon us often serve those in power by reducing us, flattening the complexities of life. But the labels we choose for ourselves liberate us.
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Issue 1
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Perception Gaps
Read the issue: Perception GapsMight the plasticity of our language be responsible for the gaps between us?
Process
We champion the person behind the piece, and the unique perspectives they bring to the page.
Our approach is relational, built upon mutual trust and open lines of communication that push back against the oft-transactional nature of publishing. We are eager to champion new and underrepresented voices, and what we prize above all else is curiosity and an appetite for collaboration. Each contributor works closely with two editors over a three-month period to get their piece to a point of publication. There are also points of connection with others being published in the same issue, as well as opportunities to be in continued community post-publication.
Publications
“Seventh Wave’s approach to publication is truly radical in the best of ways.”
We give our editorial keys to curators in the community to publish their own anthologies of voice on our platforms.
Our Spotlights help make the act of writing more approachable, highlighting each maker’s inspiration and process.
“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
