Is the cure for male loneliness just listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers' "By the Way" over and over for days on end? Check out my contribution to the @major7mag.bsky.social mixtape, and thank you to the amazing @keersteemack.bsky.social for selecting it: www.major7mag.com/post/by-the-...

I’m stoked to have a poem featured in the latest issue of Major 7th! Please check out all the sick pieces in this issue!

New mixtape up for you! It will be one of our last. Details in my editor's letter Now playing: Volume 27 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

“You handed me a tissue and asked if I needed to go to the emergency room. I said I was fine. I wanted to show you that I was doing my therapy tasks.” Davi Schweizer closes out Volume 26 with a piece so cold, it burns: "Winter Solstice" • Phoenix www.major7mag.com/post/winter-...

Devastating beauty from Amy Laessle-Morgan in Volume 26, Side B: "The Tracks of My Tears" • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 💿 www.major7mag.com/post/the-tra...

friday five for ya. new volume coming end of the month! www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

An acceptance today from @major7mag.bsky.social for my poem after Me & Bobby McGee. Thanks Kirsti! The idea came from something a friend told me once. After a breakup, she told me not to fret--he was just my Bobby McGee. In other words, puppy love!

I love M7 and so it’s especially exciting to see Basking in Glory included in today’s Friday 5 !! Go check out Major 7th for some of the most interesting and exciting music writing!

Cool news: I got an acceptance from @major7mag.bsky.social

“Here’s something. It will take the edge off.” He tucks the pen into his coat pocket. “Mother’s Little Helper.” 💊 Erin Dawkins takes us into the exam room in "Mother's Little Helper" • The Rolling Stones. Read it in Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/mother-...

someone told me Geese sounds like if The Sheepdogs went to art school and now I can't unhear it www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

if you are waiting to hear back on a submission, I am aiming to respond by next week thx for your patience xo

“It has always been there, that sense that things are off. That there were forces at play that I couldn’t quite grasp.” Get paranoid with @badguybirnie.bsky.social in "Ballad of a Thin Man" • Bob Dylan www.major7mag.com/post/ballad-...

“I remember dancing my pants off and almost dancing off a beautiful stranger’s until she figured out I was lying about not speaking good English.” @martinezfjulian.bsky.social’s piece "Night Fever" • Bee Gees is sick. 🔥🤒 Check it out in Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/night-f...

playing greatest hits today xo www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“Drag pipes. No mistaking when Ray's in the neighborhood. The neighbors go inside.” Wade Harris gives us a riot of a toxic friendship in "Twice as Hard" • The Black Crowes. Read it in Vol. 26. www.major7mag.com/post/twice-a...

@rachelturney.bsky.social gives us "Run, Run, Run" • Nico & The Velvet Underground via a single, quiet, perfect moment. on Side A of Volume 26. 🏃‍♀️ Listen here: www.major7mag.com/post/run-run...

“when the volta comes / we are not ready” In "Fruit Fly" • Nada Surf, @invariablyso.bsky.social breaks our hearts. Read it in Vol. 26!! 💔🪰 www.major7mag.com/post/fruit-f...

friday mixtape for ya! five albums, five stories, one fav (snuck three in there oop) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“And I couldn’t have the blood and pain of a bite / ruin the show. I’d put faith in / our bodies—four tall boys to one small girl—to keep / time.” Visceral, multilayered storytelling in this piece from Riayn Spaero! Read “Barbarella” • Scott Weiland in Vol. 26. www.major7mag.com/post/barbare...

“When everything went dark I didn’t follow the light, I stayed behind.” Guy Cramer plays with how scary the attention economy can be in “Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man” • Concrete Blonde. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. In Vol. 26! www.major7mag.com/post/ghost-o...

good morning, folks five albums, five stories, one fav! :) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

Volume 26 of Major 7th Magazine is out NOW! Words. Sounds. Defiant artmaking. Spin it up right here: www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

Hi folks - quick note We received a higher than average volume of submissions last call window If you are waiting on a response for a submission from last window, they're still in queue and being considered for next issue Thanks for your patience xo

If you’re not paranoid, you’re not paying attention, bud. Thanks to @major7mag.bsky.social & @keersteemack.bsky.social for believing in this ongoing paranoid fever dream. www.major7mag.com/post/ballad-...

Now playing: Volume 26 ten writers for you to enjoy xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

ON REPEAT: Ashley Varela in Volume 7 We could read this tender, triumphant poem every single day. Send it to someone who needs it. Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/the-las...

Got a couple of sonic remedies for anxiety in here. I hope it helps, even a little. five albums, five stories, one fav. yours to enjoy xo www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

ON REPEAT: @francesboyle19.bsky.social in Volume 21. A poem as delicate as it is electric. We love this one. Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/hejira-...

ON REPEAT: Glenn Orgias in Volume 11 Evocative, haunting, and image-rich, this story has stayed with us like a bad dollar bill. @glennorgias.bsky.social Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/mellon-...

five albums, five stories, one fav work from Glenn Orgias, Claire Hopple, Lyndsay Hall, Benjamin Niespodziany, and Bud Smith www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

ON REPEAT: Lauren Theresa in Volume 4 This one from @imlaurentheresa.bsky.social still hits us in the guts, embodying the spirit of Major 7th in an arresting visual style. Hit repeat: www.major7mag.com/post/a-favor...

On chasing the unknown, unquantifiable thing - and one dirty little secret from this editor's Spotify wrapped. Five albums, five stories, one fav. Let's go! www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

happy new year kids we love ya five albums, five stories, one fave. run it up! www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“Life wasn’t perfect, she realized, but every imperfect moment held the promise of something better, and those were the things worth living for. That, and the epic amount of candy she bought from Woolworth’s.” “Leave a Light On” • Belinda Carlisle by Jennifer Lai www.major7mag.com/post/leave-a...

“Damn man stop interrupting me I’m trying to tell a story here! So she reappears dressed in scrubs y’know like Comet-green nurse garb” Isaac Offski’s “Natural Disasters” • Unwound is a hell of a lot of fun to read. Find it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/by-isaa...

five albums, five stories. happy holidays, kids! feat. stories by @mallorysmart.bsky.social, @aaronburch.bsky.social, Daniel O. Bailey, @parkeryoung.bsky.social, @badguybirnie.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“i believe in things like ‘the universe’ hope that doesn’t turn you off” @romyewing.bsky.social returns to M7 with a self-portrait of a poem in “Nothing Better” • The Postal Service. Now playing in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/nothing...

happy friday before xmas, pals. something to distract you (we know you're not doing any work, anyway) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

one of our fave journals! get working on something short and music-related and send their way!!

You still have a chance to do something cool before the year is over: send your work to us. The rules: the piece needs to be short, about a song, and the song title/artist is the title of the piece. (As long as we haven't played it yet!) Submit by Jan 1! www.major7mag.com/submit #callforsubmissions

Your Friday Five for Dec - five albums, five stories. feat. Tyler Dempsey, Naomi Skwarna, Madeeha Hashmi, D.T. Robbins, Franz Jørgen Neumann www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“They don’t argue about the music because they both agree that these songs are at best bad-adjacent. Sure, not horrible, but the kind of hits you never want to hear again because hits are for the weak.” Read this one from Tex Gresham & @wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social: www.major7mag.com/post/you-re-...

“Rest your head on the back of your palms, and breathe deep that rainwater earth.” Marco Visciolaccio meditates on disappointing your mother while traversing the Yalu River, bordering China and North Korea, in "You Are My Sunshine" • Gene Autry. In Volume 25! www.major7mag.com/post/you-are...

something new - your M7 Friday Five five albums, five stories (one fav!) www.major7mag.com/post/friday-...

“Get back out there. Pull the ghosts from the 8-track.” Scott Laudati brings us a heartfelt ode to a childhood hero in “Common Knowledge” • Conor Oberst. Read it in Volume 25. www.major7mag.com/post/common-...

Hey, share this with all your friends. Submissions to Major 7th Magazine are open until January 1st. Have a flash piece or poem inspired by a song? Send it to us. www.major7mag.com/submit

Your life has a soundtrack. We're here to press play. Major 7th Magazine is a literary mixtape that explores the relationship between music + memory. We're open to all forms, as long as they're flash. ​ Ready to send us your jam? www.major7mag.com/submit #litmag #callforsubmissions

hi lovers, volume 25 is live xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

"we are green– thumbs in our ears // to the tune of the losing football game" now playing: “True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson) www.major7mag.com/post/true-so...