Written in the Waves is an online journal for Atlantic-based research in the fields of history, anthropology, folklore, and multimedia.

We highlight rigorous scholarship alongside traditionally overlooked formats — folklore, textiles, oral history, and storytelling — and centre work primarily conducted by women.

Scope

Our remit is the Atlantic world in its fullest sense: the Americas, island nations, Atlantic Europe, Northern Europe, and Atlantic Africa. We are interested in the connections, crossings, and currents that bind these places together across time.

"A call to academic excellence as much as it is to whimsy and beauty."

On Volume One: Sailing

Founders

The journal is curated by Sarah Perry and Annabelle Silva, established in 2026. Each issue is organised as a volume; our inaugural volume is Volume One: Sailing.

Contribute

We welcome essays, reviews, contributor features, and multimedia work. See our submission guidelines and any open calls for papers to take part.