We are community-crafted.
Welcome to Well-Crafted, our behind-the-scenes bulletin, where we share all things craft and curation, events and announcements.
We’ve always said that we are only as strong as our community, and we mean it: without contributors, without readers, without audience members and supporters, we wouldn’t be who we are as an organization today. But what does it actually look like to champion art in a capitalist society? How do we make good on our ethos of community care in an industry that so often thrives on a scarcity mentality and competition?
Since we began in 2015, we’ve thought deeply on all of these issues, and though we’re always a work in progress, there are definitely a few things that we’ve gleaned over the years that we thought might be worthwhile to share. With this column, which we’re calling “Well-Crafted,“ we’ll share insight into the work that happens behind-the-scenes at TSW: why we do what we do in the way we do it. This space will also keep you up-to-date on our offerings, like upcoming (virtual) events, as well as news about our contributors and their work. This is also a space where we’ll spill some tips and tea: how to write a cover letter (that doesn’t cover up your voice), why we don’t read “blind” (and why you maybe shouldn’t either), and how to survive as a literary nonprofit in the world today. You’ll also get to see what TSW staff members are reading, watching, and listening to. Because for us, transparency is key to ensuring that we all thrive in this literary landscape that we share.
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Summer 2024 Digital Resident Samar Al Summary shares a piece from 2021 to showcase her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Czaerra Galicinao Ucol shares an excerpt of a poem with contextual words on process.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Gabriella Garcia shares a poem she wrote during the Summer Residency.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Mallika Chennupaty shares a process piece about her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Liana Fu does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Amandalynne Paullada does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Nyree Abrahamian does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Poppy Yozh shares a process piece about their work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Allison Masangkay shares an excerpt of their in-progress work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Jasmine Gui shares a process piece about meeting Rafael Lozanzo-Hemmer’s Volute 1, Au clair de la…
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Mel Dunn shares a poem she wrote during the Summer Residency.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Zoë Luh shares an excerpt from a hybrid piece, Writing into Dystopia, that expands on excerpts…
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Seferiana Day shares an excerpt from an essay-in-progress, You Might Be My Sister
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Laila Milevski shares a process piece on the form of bare text.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Markiyan Prokhasko shares an excerpt of a chapter from his debut book, The Dream of Antarctica.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Tamiko Nimura does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Yomalis Rosario shares her poem, Rupture.
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Angela Siew shares a poem that's inspired by Laurie Anderson's exhibit "Four Talks."
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Camille Iman Woods shares a process piece, "When Leaders Let Go."
Summer 2024 Digital Resident Elisabeth Vasquez Hein does a Q&A with Seventh Wave about her work.
Is our Digital Residency for you? See why 15 people applied this summer.
We've rounded up 10 recently published poetry books and chapbooks by past TSW contributors.
Narrative Shifts, our genre-agnostic digital residency program, is now open for applications to our fall cohorts.
Submissions to "On Queer Family" have been extended to 7/28.
Submissions to "On Gaming" have been extended to 7/25.