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: Kitzia Esteva
Read: Spotlight: Kitzia Esteva“My work is agitational and energized toward transformation and hope—I build worlds deeply rooted in liberation and decolonial imaginings.”
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Spotlight: Isabel Lemus Kristensen
Read: Spotlight: Isabel Lemus Kristensen“I bring into the room my family and relatives first and always. They are who have shaped me. My ancestors…
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Spotlight: huiyin zhou
Read: Spotlight: huiyin zhou“Sometimes the most intimate and powerful work lies in the things that remain private and inaccessible for public gaze.”
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Spotlight: Grace Lee
Read: Spotlight: Grace Lee“Through the safe and tender space of the residency, I found a new approach to my art-making: writing as a…
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Spotlight: Chii Ọganihu
Read: Spotlight: Chii Ọganihu“I consider myself a multi-genre writer. I will write anything—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play—if the spirit hits.”
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Spotlight: Bri Stokes
Read: Spotlight: Bri Stokes“Lately, I have been writing about power—how it is stolen, how it’s manipulated, and what it means to fear its…
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Spotlight: Samar Al Summary
Read: Spotlight: Samar Al SummarySummer 2024 Digital Resident Samar Al Summary shares a piece from 2021 to showcase her work.
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Spotlight: Czaerra Galicinao Ucol
Read: Spotlight: Czaerra Galicinao UcolSummer 2024 Digital Resident Czaerra Galicinao Ucol shares an excerpt of a poem with contextual words on process.
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Spotlight: Gabriella Garcia
Read: Spotlight: Gabriella GarciaSummer 2024 Digital Resident Gabriella Garcia shares a poem she wrote during the Summer Residency.
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
