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Touch The Journal of Healing

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Touch means many things to many people, and it occurs in different ways and takes different forms. We feel the touch of the first warm breeze of spring, that calming, enveloping sense of hope for better days to come just as we feel pain in the prick of a splinter. We sense the touch of humanity when we read of or observe a parent who searches for a lost child following a catastrophe just as we sense the touch of memory in a cherished moment from our past. We experience touch during moments of connection when we observe a sunset on a western shore just as we experience touch at times of personal loss. Touch: The Journal of Healing promotes poetry and prose from around the world that speaks of the physical, the emotional, and the universal, spiritual touch of humanity.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic PublicationPublished 2 x per year.
Print Publication Print PublicationPublished 2 x per year.

Fiction Believed Defunct
Dates:

Rolling Deadlines: Check cutoff dates.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:
General General
Lengths:
Flash Fiction Flash FictionUp to 750 words.
Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Health/Medicine, Religion/Spirituality (Spirituality, See guidelines), Sexuality/Gender (Men/Male issues, Women/Female issues), Other (See guidelines).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Nonfiction Believed Defunct
Dates:

Rolling Deadlines: Check cutoff dates.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:
Essay EssayUp to 750 words.
Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Health/Medicine, Religion/Spirituality (Spirituality, See guidelines), Sexuality/Gender (Men/Male issues, Women/Female issues), Other (See guidelines).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Poetry Believed Defunct
Dates:

Rolling Deadlines: Check cutoff dates.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:
General General
Lengths:
Poem PoemUp to 80 lines; Up to 4 pieces.
Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Health/Medicine, Religion/Spirituality (Spirituality, See guidelines), Sexuality/Gender (Men/Male issues, Women/Female issues), Other (See guidelines).

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Dates

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2020
Date Added: 19 Mar 2009

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