“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...
“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...
07.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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-...
Thank you Guy Cramer, Riayn Spaero, @invariablyso.bsky.social, @rachelturney.bsky.social , Wade Harris , @badguybirnie.bsky.social , @martinezfjulian.bsky.social, Erin Dawkins, Amy Laessle-Morgan, and Davi Schweizer for your work
31.01.2026 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!!
16.12.2025 23:41 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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-...
Thank you so much for sharing!
07.12.2025 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“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-...