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Temple Lit Mag values the voices of every Asian American writer who has a story to tell. Submission is free; however, we are unable to pay our writers at this time.

Temple Lit Mag accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Issues are published four times a year, once per season.

Temple Lit Mag accepts works that tells a story about emotionally resonating Asian American experiences. Issue #1 does not have a specific theme.

Submission Guidelines:

Simultaneous submissions are allowed and encouraged. You can submit any work to other literary magazines; however, unpublished work is preferred. If your work has been published anywhere else, please indicate so in the submission form. You may also enter submissions to multiple categories.

Use of generative AI is prohibited. We do not tolerate any hate speech, discrimination, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry. Submissions promoting hate speech will be rejected and writers will be blacklisted from future submissions.

We will not be accepting submissions with explicit sexual content or graphic, excessive violence. This is a literary magazine targeted towards youth, and we hope to create a safe and inclusive space for all writers and readers.

Text in foreign language is allowed and encouraged, but please put English translations of them in the footnotes.

Response time is an average of 4-8 weeks, but can be upwards of 8-12 weeks. If you would like to receive feedback from our staff, please indicate so on the Google Form submission.

Submissions must be sent in a pdf, docx or Word file.

Fiction and Non-Fiction Guidelines

Fiction and Non-Fiction pieces have a guideline of 2000 words, however this is not a strict limit. You may submit a maximum of five prose pieces per each submission. (Prose encompasses both fiction and non-fiction.)

Poetry Guidelines:

We allow a maximum of five poems per submission. Submissions cannot exceed more than ten pages.