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...

"It wasn’t about the bird, I told my husband. Now I have to tell the boys." now playing: "Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by @lashleykirkland.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/moon-so...

"Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 Washington Street." now playing: "Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by @natalye.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/days-of...

"Everyone has a Dave. Some version of him is trying to lodge himself in your bones as we speak." now playing: "The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by @mallorysmart.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/the-jok...

"What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat." now playing: "San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by @amy-e-casey.bsky.social ) www.major7mag.com/post/san-dim...

So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️‍🔥💿

Because "Head Over Heels" just came on a playlist, re-posting this little guy from last year @major7mag.bsky.social: "Their sentiment spills a sacred mystery, something only the gods and God-adjacent confess: Words make weather. Ask me how I know, how she knows." www.major7mag.com/post/head-ov...

hi lovers, happy summer volume 24 is now playing www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

I hadn't thought of this song in years -- it does indeed make for a great setting. Nice job, @thaddevassie.bsky.social in @major7mag.bsky.social

I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social

Love that @major7mag.bsky.social brings written perspectives to the soundtrack of our lives. Thank you @keersteemack.bsky.social ck for publishing Raining in Baltimore, and entertaining the nostalgic, sad sack I can become through music. www.major7mag.com/post/raining...

now playing: volume 23 happy sunday, pals xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

wrote a prose poem about a song that i’ve ugly sobbed to many times, so grateful it has a home here <3

thrilled to be part of this issue! this piece and the song/artist that inspired it mean a lot to me and i'm so glad it's finally out there 🖤

now playing: volume 22 happy sunday, folks! xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

Thrilled to have a story placed at @major7mag.bsky.social this month! I used Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” as inspiration for this tale of loss. Thanks so much to @keersteemack.bsky.social for giving the story a home. www.major7mag.com/post/wildflo...

Wrote this for @major7mag.bsky.social about The War on Drugs, running, community, being a son, being a dad, stuff like that. Big thanks to @keersteemack.bsky.social for seeing a better version to be had from the initial sub. www.major7mag.com/post/eyes-to-the-wind-the-war-on-drugs-by-bryan-harvey

So happy to have my poem "Hejira", inspired by one of my fave Joni Mitchell songs, in this uber-cool magazine, edited by the equally cool @keersteemack.bsky.social !

"Quickly moving from green kook to gnarly surfer, becoming proficient at riding the epic waves of lorazepam and fluoxetine and whiskey, hanging ten on the edge of oblivion..." The prose in this Andrew Monge story is terrific throughout. Published by @major7mag.bsky.social.

Now playing: Volume 21 www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

Tbh my skull is probably easier to pop than that rusty hood

I don’t write a *ton* of lovey sorta stuff, but I’m still hella proud of this essay I had pubbed in @major7mag.bsky.social a year or so ago about how marriage can be scary and unpredictable but also lovely and awe-inspiring and wonderful. For your love day reading: www.major7mag.com/post/there-t...

Bowie poem with @major7mag.bsky.social today. Based on the haunting Stipe & Elson version.

"You popped the hood of my skull like your 1994 Geo Prizm." Now playing: "Forever"- charli xcx (by Nicholas Maassen) www.major7mag.com/post/forever...

"The Devil first arrived dressed as the landscaper." Now playing: "Rugged Country" - Japanese Breakfast (by Joseph Linscott) www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-...

"I thought about the severed thumb plunging inside your third eye." Now playing: "Wounded" by Third Eye Blind (by Guy Cramer) www.major7mag.com/post/wounded...

"I am large enough for three seminaries and The Sopranos. I am the stowaway sand that heckles your suitcase for ten years and the basilica you did not expect between bodegas."

"When will the end come, they ask? Will she please make it stop?" Now playing: "Bolero" - Ravel (by Brendan Todt) www.major7mag.com/post/bolero-...

Came from the Bruce reference, stayed for the excellent descriptions of Jersey as a way of existing that state lines can’t take away

"I’m New Jersey, man. I didn’t say I’m in New Jersey. I am negotiating the terms of exile." Now playing: "Jersey Girl" - Bruce Springsteen (by Angela Townsend) www.major7mag.com/post/jersey-...

"The radio going. CDs scratched up: country, rock n roll, stuff with the same punch that lives in him." Now playing: "Gunpowder & Lead" - Miranda Lambert (by Charlie M. Case) www.major7mag.com/post/gunpowd...

we love ending up in your year end publication threads, thank you for supporting this lil mag xo

I spent a large part of 2024 listening to all of Michelle Zauner’s musical projects, so it’s only fitting I end the year having this piece published in the excellent @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-...

Always love seeing new Major 7th drop!

The ever-great @keersteemack.bsky.social let me go deep on my favorite opening line in pop music history for @major7mag.bsky.social (which is such a helluva mag): www.major7mag.com/post/head-ov...

Little short nonfiction piece about a show I threw in high school was in the Local Scenes issue of @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/the-fai...

Volume 20 is up! Spend a bit of time with it over the last few days of your holiday love youse xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

I published a whopping two new pieces this year. The first was this essay in @major7mag.bsky.social that I originally wrote as a model for an assignment called “Musical Introduction”: www.major7mag.com/post/sittin-...

I'll spare you what reminded me just now that I wrote this, and maybe someday I'll be able to write directly about our farm, but for whatever reason, not yet. I can only write about it slant, but at least we have Kool Moe Dee & @major7mag.bsky.social as muses. www.major7mag.com/post/i-go-to...

"Confession booth darkness. Just our dumbass voices." Now playing: "Untitled" by Morgan Freeman (Caleb Bethea) www.major7mag.com/post/buzzer-...

Fever dream? Nah. True story.

"This one time Josh got kicked in the throat." Now playing: "The Failed Success" - The Massacre at Sundown (by @juscarts.com) www.major7mag.com/post/the-fai...

"But I wasn't imagining it, right?" Now playing: "Hindsight is 20/20" - Talking Backwards (by @bdcutkomp.bsky.social) www.major7mag.com/post/hindsig...

Aiming for all my CNF to feel like it’s being told to you at a bar. Thanks @major7mag.bsky.social and Julián for the acceptance, and making me sound rad. www.major7mag.com/post/buzzer-...

Got a little piece about a show I threw back in high school up today at @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/the-fai...

Check out the new issue of @major7mag.bsky.social I guest edited! Thank you to @keersteemack.bsky.social for the opportunity and to all who submitted their dope work Shoutout @richjonesmusic.bsky.social— I wrote a bit about him and his amazing new album, Sour Dub t.co/lW8r1tAcKy

This true story is one of my favorites to tell. Here is “‘Hindsight Is 20/20’ • Talking Backwards,” a piece about my best friend’s band encountering peculiar strangers in the woods, published in @major7mag.bsky.social for their Local Scenes literary mixtape. www.major7mag.com/post/hindsig...