The Dock Drops a New Anchor
With the announcement of our seventh and golden issue (In Opposition) over at our triannual magazine, we are excited to pay homage to not only our namesake, but to the original intentions of our organization, by dropping a new anchor here on The Dock, our Medium blog.
The Seventh Wave evolved from the idea that to achieve greater conversations — and therefore, understanding — we needed to create a way to embrace contradiction. What began as a digital-only literary magazine has turned into a fully-fledged arts and literary nonprofit organization: in addition to curating three conversations (issues) per year, publishing (and paying) 12–16 artists and writers per issue, we also practice what we publish: through our Side Conversation channel, we’ve had the chance to sit down with some of the most influential thinkers of our times to dissect the complexities of policy and their impact; we pair each online conversation we curate with an offline event to provide that necessary physical space to exchange actual ideas; and each year, we host an artist residency in Rhinebeck, New York, where four residents contemplate, discuss, argue and create around our topic du jour.
Our mission has always been to challenge how and what people interact with, and to us, that meant starting somewhere scary and groundless, like the ocean. We have remained committed to having the hardest conversations of our times, and part of that was the start of this blog, The Dock: a way to reach beneath the surface of conversations in the media today and give breath to the conversations that are always and already occurring.
Consider this a revival.
The Dock’s presence on Medium is meant to cause meaningful disruption by creating a community of writers who are willing to challenge each other, as well as themselves. We are looking for perspectives that are at the margins of any subject, often in opposition to mainstream opinions. Medium’s community is the perfect place to drop this sort of conversational anchor, as it is full of writers eager to articulate their truths. We think it’s important to create a space for these collisions and to shine a light on sides of the conversation that may otherwise go unseen or unheard. With The Dock, we hope to help bring audience to opinion, as well as new voices to the conversation.
Our editors will be curating three pieces a week that they believe add perspective (not echoes) to the ongoing social and political conversations of today. Feel like you have something to say? Drop us the link to your Medium piece for us to include in our Seventh Wave collection. We would love to consider your work.
Keep on creating,
The Editors at The Seventh Wave
info@seventhwavemag.com
PS: Got more thoughts brewing? Head on over to our literary magazine, which curates three conversations per year. We publish 12–16 voices in each issue, and are dedicated to paying our contributors. You can read our current call for submission there, as well as look through our archive of published work.
