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Guidelines

"Touchstone Literary Magazine aims to select the "gold" in literary work by new voices. We are dedicated to supporting emerging writers & artists beyond accepting their work."

"Touchstone Literary Magazine aims to select the "gold" in literary work by new voices. We are dedicated to supporting emerging writers & artists beyond accepting their work."

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time

3-4 months

Acceptance Rate

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  • Payment

    No

  • Fee

    No

  • Simultaneous submissions

    Yes

  • Previously published

    No

  • Expedited response

    No

  • Available in print

    Yes

  • Provides contributor copies

    No

  • Examples online

    Yes

  • Active on social media

    Yes

Accepted genres

5 genres

Art

painting, digital art, photography, experimental, sculpture, multimedia, etc.

Photography

No specific limitations

Nonfiction

No specific limitations

Fiction

No specific limitations

Poetry

No specific limitations

Art

painting, digital art, photography, experimental, sculpture, multimedia, etc.

Photography

No specific limitations

Nonfiction

No specific limitations

Fiction

No specific limitations

Poetry

No specific limitations

Statistics

We're able to provide them because you use our tracker!
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How to submit

Process

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Cover letters

Coming soon! Advice from editors on what your cover letter and bio should look like!

Eligibility

LGBTQ+ creatorsAll marginalized creatorsCreators from a specific location / ethnic groupWomen and other marginalized gendersCreators w/ disabilities

Formatting

Coming soon! All the Times New Romans and double spaces!

Rights for published work

Coming soon! First, third, none, all the rights!

Additional info

Touchstone is dedicated to creating a safe platform for publication for our new writers & artists. Black, Indigenous, & POC, women, LGBTQIA, diversely-abled, international writers, & other underrepresented voices are cordially welcome to find a home for your work with us. Your work may be in any style, format, or subject, unless unless it's a themed submission. We simply want to see your best work. Each fall, we nominate our favorite contributions from each genre for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Pushcart Prize.

About the Magazine

Founded in 1975 | United States

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Achilles Fergus Seastrom

Editor-in-Chief

Alainna Romeo

Fiction Editor

Riley O’Mearns

Poetry Editor

Joshua Konecke

Nonfiction Editor

Ben Trickey

Art Editor