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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Issue 10
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Willful Innocence
Read the issue: Willful InnocenceHow can we learn from moments of failing so that our anger, grief, and shame can propel us toward conversations and healing?
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Issue 9
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What We Lose
Read the issue: What We LoseAre there times where we can’t compromise our beliefs because to do so would be to forfeit the core of our beings?
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Issue 8
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Power And
Read the issue: Power AndWho holds power in our spheres of influence and why? Can we control power, both in others and within ourselves?
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Issue 7
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In Opposition
Read the issue: In OppositionHow do we tackle conflicts of belief, and make the best use of them as a tool for understanding?
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Issue 6
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Dangerous Bodies
Read the issue: Dangerous BodiesWho gets to define safety and fear, security and terror? Who can we trust to tell us when, where, and how we are safe?
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Issue 5
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Artificial Realities
Read the issue: Artificial RealitiesWho can we trust to convey information to us, and how much are we actually willing to accept truths that counter our own realities?
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Issue 4
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You Are Politics
Read the issue: You Are PoliticsPolitics is where we wake up — it is the hope that the structure that exists around us is not actively trying to destroy 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
