Magazines and Stories

Non-fiction has always had a strong audience because of how timely the events of the material usually are. Writers have to keep trying to get their work accepted and not stop when a magazine rejects a story, whether the story is fiction or non-fiction.

I agree. Writer's shouldn't give up. Something else that I've noticed...the kind of non-fiction writing that is prevalent on print nowadays is written by people in their mid-20s to 30's. It could be about new parenthood, or recent unemployment, or some weird episode in their childhood which may or may not reference some late 70's or 80's pop culture event. It's either they observe things that their parents went through that the latter hadn't noticed, or they're nostalgic. New and old as reviewed by the present, so to speak.

Writers are younger nowadays because of many factors, but the publishing industry used to let writers work as apprentices to established writers and then develop a small article or two for a magazine, but now writers in their twenties and thirties have books published. That is an exciting change.

Indeed there are many magazines that have a place for fiction and this is to be celebrated as it seems like many of the magazines have reduced their departments and staffs in the last few recent years.