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About Touchstone: What is Touchstone? The American Heritage Dictionary provides two definitions of the word. touch*stone: 1) A hard, black stone, such as jasper or basalt, formerly used to test the quality of gold or silver by comparing the streak left on the stone by one of these metals with that of a standard alloy. 2) An excellent quality or example that is used to test the excellence or genuineness of others. Like its namesake, Touchstone Magazine selects the "gold" in literary work by graduate and undergraduate students. Touchstone is Kansas State University's student-edited literary arts magazine, published annually each Spring by the College of Arts and Sciences with assistance from the KSU Creative Writing Faculty, the KSU Fine Arts Council, and the KSU English Department. Sample copies are available for $4.00. Since 1998, Touchstone's staff of graduate and undergraduate students at KSU have devoted their time and efforts to develop a new vision of the magazine--to increase the quantity and quality of submissions received and to broaden Touchstone's audience base. After years of accepting submissions only from KSU undergraduate students, the 1998 competition was opened to graduate students in creative writing programs nationwide. Since then, submissions have been received from graduate students across the country--from the University of Iowa to Vermont College, from the University of Arizona to Emerson College in Massachusetts. We hope to continue expanding the journal to include more quality work in future issues.
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