Seventh Wave
joyce is a co-founder and the executive director of Seventh Wave, a BIPOC- and queer-led organization community championing the voices of writers, artists, and creatives with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
If you are a writer looking for community, conversation,. or connection, check out Seventh Wave’s annual magazine, Community Anthologies, digital residency programs, or sign up for the waitlist for their new Writer’s Hub.
Seventh Wave is a literary community championing the voices of writers, artists, and creatives with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
We strive towards a future unbound by traditional and conventional publishing industry standards, where the words of our community weave narratives that honor our heritages, preserve our legacies, and reaffirm our stories.
Seventh Wave comprises an annual literary magazine that was a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Awards in 2021 for Best Magazine; an innovative Community Anthologies program that gives Seventh Wave’s editorial keys to folks to curate their own topic-specific folios; and in-person and digital residency programs that offer cohort-based opportunities for writers to learn alongside and support one another throughout the creative process.
Seventh Wave was named a finalist for AWP’s Writing Organization Award in 2025 alongside literary stalwarts VONA and Canto Mundo.
“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, Community Anthology Contributor, On Rivers“There is truly no arts org like Seventh Wave. The level of thoughtfulness, gentleness, creativity, and care the team puts into every experience is unmatched. The world is starved for the kind of careful stewardship and creative space-making Seventh Wave provides. Artists feel supported, nourished, and challenged by Seventh Wave in the most vital of ways.”
—Gabrielle Bates, author of Judas Goat“I learned about Seventh Wave’s residency from a Poets & Writers article that I was reading, and I still haven't finished reading it because I immediately looked up the residency, read over all of the info, told my husband to take over with our babies, locked myself in a room, and applied on the very last day. I am so glad I followed my intuition, and I'm so moved to be receiving an opportunity like this.”
—Yomalis R., digital resident
