Touchstone is Now Accepting Submissions

In the 1500s French traders used pieces of dark quartz or jasper stone to test the quality of gold and silver by rubbing it across the stone’s surface and examining the mark it left behind. This was their way of testing the genuineness and quality of each precious metal. This was their touchstone.

Touchstone Literary Magazine serves as just such a standard for creative writing at KSU, and therefore we encourage you to send us your best work for consideration in the upcoming Spring 2007 edition. A $75 First Place Award Winner and $25 Second Place Award Winner will be selected for each of three genres: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Fiction.

At this time we gladly accept email submissions as follows:

Include your contact information in the body of your message and address to Litmag@ksu.edu.

For each genre follow these guidelines:

Poetry~
Please send up to 5 poems attached to an email as Word documents or Rich Text Format (rtf) files with the word “Poetry” as your subject line.

Creative Nonfiction~
Please send up to 2 essays attached to an email as Word documents or Rich Text Format (rtf) files with the word “Nonfiction” as your subject line.

Fiction~
Please send up to 2 stories attached to an email as Word documents or Rich Text Format (rtf) files with the word “Fiction” as your subject line.

You may send multiple submissions for a single genre attached to one email. However if you have work to send for more than one genre, please send each in separate emails with the appropriate subject line for that genre.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 1, 2006

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact me via email at the address provided below.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Tulora S. Roeckers
MA English ~ Creative Writing
Touchstone Editor-in-chief
Kansas State University
Manhattan on the Prairie
email: roeckers@ksu.edu
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