Tomorrow! Join us in Seattle at @common_area on Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m. to hear from our 10 brilliant Narrative Shifts Mini residents. 🎙️🤩🫶🏽
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Swipe through to learn more about each of our 10 amazing residents, and come through to hear them read from their work.✨ It’s been such a joy and a privilege to be in community with them over this past month, and we’d love to see you there to support these local writers, artists, and activists. 🗣️🤓🙌🏾
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Free and open to all! Doors at 6:30, readings at 7. We’ll be at CAM’s Common Objects space (2601 1st Ave), and can’t wait to see everyone oh-so-soon. So whether you’re a Seventh Wave alum or newer to our community, welcome! Let’s do what we do best: hold space together, and for each other. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Introducing our contributors for Issue 19: Little Changes. 🙌🏾🤩💫
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Please join us in welcoming these 15 incredible voices into the Seventh Wave fam! Over the past few months, our editorial team has had the pleasure of working closely with these great hearts and spirits, and we can’t wait to share their inimitable work with y’all when the issue publishes in June 2026. 🌊🤗🌟
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Til then, swipe through to learn a little more about each contributor and the ways that they’re thinking about little changes across the personal, the political, and the relational spectrums. We are so moved by the collective power of these voices, and are so grateful to celebrate these talented writers, artists, and activists today. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Announcing all upcoming dates and deadlines for our publications and programs. 🤩👩🏻💻🙌🏾.
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If you’ve been wanting to get involved with our community but don’t know where to start, we gotchu. Here, you can find the dates for all of our upcoming calls for 2026, including the Community Anthologies EIC program, the next issue of The Magazine, and all three of our digital residencies: Narrative Shifts, The Workshop, and The Cohort. 🗓️👀🌟
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As we enter a new decade, we continue to be dedicated to growing our community in meaningful and intentional ways. As you may already know, we are a global community that publishes, guides, mentors, and connects with writers at just about every stage of their creative trajectory. 💫 So whether you are newer to the literary scene or whether you are a longtime writer seeking community and creative spark, we likely have a program or a publication that could be just what you’ve been looking for. ✍🏽🤗🌱
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Swipe through to get an overview of what we’re offering in 2026, but be sure to visit our website for more detailed information about each opportunity. We hope to get to know you and your work this year! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Seattle! Join us next week on Thursday, May 14, at 7 p.m. at @common_area to celebrate our 10 incredible Narrative Shifts Mini residents! 🗣️🤗✨
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We’ve felt so lucky to be in community with our brilliant cohort — Jaime Conlan (@jaime.jnc ), Nicole-Anne Keyton (@balkeyeston ), Hapshiba Kwon, Nicole Capó Martinez (@nicole.capo ), Emeke Oscar Nkadi Jr. (@emeke.exe ), My Panelli (@_saint_my ), Quinn Qian (@quinn.qian ), Ammara Touch (@tender.yarrow ), Rachael Marie Walker (@rachaelgoeswalking ), and Dominique Watkins — over these past several weeks, and we can’t wait for you to hear them read from their work. 🤩
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We’ll be at CAM’s Common Objects space (2601 1st Ave.); doors at 6:30, readings at 7. 💫 Come out to support our inaugural Narrative Shifts Mini cohort, mix and mingle with other Seventh Wave fam, and get excited to witness a beautiful collision of craft & community. Free to attend, masks requested to care for our immunocompromised friends (we will have some on-hand as well!). 😷
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And if you’re not in Seattle but have buddies who are, please send them along in your stead! We can’t wait to share (IRL) space with y’all oh so very soon. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Just four more days left to apply to The Workshop, our summer digital residency. 📝☀️😎
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If you’ve been feeling stuck on how to advance — or complete! — a piece you’ve been working on, maybe keen eyes and thoughtful feedback are what you need most. This five-week, five-session program brings together cohorts of seven residents to exchange pages and provide in-depth verbal and written feedback, each led by a seasoned Seventh Wave facilitator.✨
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Make this summer the one where you commit to your craft, and get your writing in tip-top shape for applications, larger manuscripts, and more. Tap the link in our bio to learn more about The Workshop, and please don’t hesitate to reach out to us here or at [email protected] with any questions. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
We’re hosting an info session about our summer digital residency, The Workshop, on Wednesday, April 15, at noon PST. ☀️👀✨
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Join us to learn more about the program, what we’re looking for in the application process, and what we hope you’ll walk away with at the end of this five-week, genre-agnostic residency. If you’re ready to start (or continue) putting your writing out into the world, this could be a supportive space to get thoughtful feedback on your work — and meet some pretty incredible writers along the way! 📝🌊🤗
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Register at the link in bio, and if you’d like to learn more but can’t make it to the info session, be sure to sign up anyway, as we’ll be sending a recording to everyone who registers. Any questions, reach out to us anytime at [email protected]. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Applications are now open for our summer digital residency, The Workshop. ✍🏽🌊☀️
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Maybe you have a piece you’ve been noodling on and you’re feeling stuck, and getting thoughtful feedback would be a helpful next step. Maybe you’re ready to start putting your work out into the world, but want to do so with the support of a purposefully curated group of writers. If this sounds like you, then consider applying to The Workshop, a five-week, genre-agnostic program that runs from the middle of June through July, in which you’ll receive verbal and written feedback from an intimate group of peers and an experienced facilitator. 🗣️📝🤗
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Other benefits include an optional one-on-one with your facilitator, learning how to offer constructive feedback across genres, and the Workshop Guide, a resource that distills our 10 years of editing and workshopping into an actionable manual for writers at any stage if their writing careers. 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽
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Swipe through to learn more about The Workshop and see whether it’s right for you. We’ll also be hosting an info session next Wednesday, April 15 at noon PST for those wanting to know more (be sure to register at the link in bio even if you can’t make it, as we’ll be sending along a recording afterward). Any questions, reach out to us below or at [email protected] anytime. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
One week left to apply for Narrative Shifts Mini, an in-person version of our beloved digital residency program, in partnership with @common_area . 😎📝✨
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We’ve missed hosting in-person events, which we’ve done a whole lot of since we began in 2015 (scroll through to see a few of our faves!). So this spring, we’re partnering with Seattle-based, artist-built org Common Area Maintenance to bring this process-based program off the screen and into real life. 🌊🤗🫶🏽
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Narrative Shifts Mini will take place over four weeks in April and May, and offer community, mentorship, and accountability for Seattle-based writers, artists, and activists. If you or someone you know might be interested in applying, swipe through to learn more or tap the link in bio to apply by April 10. 👩🏻💻🤓
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Questions? Feel free to reach out to us anytime at [email protected]. Let’s get ✨lit(erary)✨ together this spring — in real life! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
A little over two weeks left to apply to be a 2026 Community Anthologies Editor-in-Chief! 🤓🌊✨
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We’ve been so excited to see applications rolling in, and along with them, a whole host of great questions about eligibility and fee waivers. And so we thought we’d share our responses to a few of the most frequently asked questions here, in case you have the same question on your mind too. 🤗
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Applications are due by EOD Friday, April 10. If you still have any questions at all as you’re putting your application together, feel free to reach out below or at [email protected]. We can’t wait to see what topics and questions you’re obsessing over soon! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
We’re so thrilled to partner with @common_area this spring to bring you Narrative Shifts Mini, an in-person version of our beloved digital residency program. 🤓🫱🏽🫲🏾🌊
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If you’re in the Seattle area, and looking for community, mentorship, and accountability, our program might be for you. Narrative Shifts Mini will be a condensed version of our seven-week digital residency, comprising four sessions over four weeks, with a celebratory reading on a TBD date at the conclusion of the program, free and open to the public. 🤗✨
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This genre-agnostic program is meant for the writer or artist who is looking to deepen their relationship to their writing. Think process, not product. Over the course of four weeks, participants will learn tools of the craft, receive resources and insights into their own creative processes, and build community with a cohort of writers, artists, and activists in the Seattle area. ✍🏽☺️❤️🔥
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Tap the link in our bio to learn more, and reach out to [email protected] with any questions. And if this sounds incredible, but you’re not in the Seattle area, tag a Seattle buddy below to help spread the word. We can’t wait to hang and learn alongside y’all — in real life! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Have you ever wanted to edit your own anthology? Is there a topic you’ve been obsessing over for the past many years? 👀🤗✨
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Tomorrow, join Executive Director @jchenchen for a Zoom info session about our 2026 Editors-in-Chief position. We’ll be talking about the application process, as well as what we’re looking for as we select our EICs and finalists. We’ll also go over what the role itself entails, and what the overall timeline will be for each phase of the program. Be sure to visit our site to get all the nitty gritty details about the opportunity, but you can reach out to us anytime if you have questions that aren’t answered there. We’re looking forward to sharing some insights about the process and answering any outstanding questions tomorrow. 📝🌊💫
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If you want the information, but can’t attend the info session, be sure to register at the Zoom link in bio. We’ll be sending the recording out to everyone who registers for the event afterward. 🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽🙌🏼
Applications are now open for our 2026 Community Anthologies Editors-in-Chief. 🤩🌊🗣️
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Do you have a topic that you’ve been thinking about obsessively over the past many years? Have you ever wanted to edit and publish your own anthology, but without the time and energy required to completely start from scratch? Learn more about our Community Anthologies program, which hires editors-in-chief to curate their own mini-issue of 6-8 pieces, above and on our site. 👀📝🤗
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This is a cohort-based program that runs from May through November, with monthly meetings for selected EICs as a chance to resource-share and support each other through each phase of the process: from writing a call for submissions to selecting pieces, from editing to publication. All throughout, we provide all the necessary tools and guidance to ensure our EICs can turn their visions into engaging, unique anthologies of voice. ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
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Our goal with the program, now in its fourth year, is to empower the next wave of editors to dream big and learn how to curate their own folios without the logistical hurdles of starting their own publication. We can’t wait to get to know your voice! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
