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Sunday 19 June 2011

Where Are The Short Stories?

Has anyone noticed that magazines have been slowly cutting short stories from their pages?

Why is this happening? I'm sure that there are a great number of people out there, who enjoy reading a spot of fiction in Women's Magazines. Yet, short stories are continuing to disappear. 

3 comments:

  1. Hi, Eileen
    I spotted you over at Teresa's
    There's a page here on facebook for those of us trying to save fiction in womags:

    savefictioninwomensmags@groups.facebook.com

    Also: If you go here
    http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/family/471247/Woman-s-Weekly-Fiction-Guidelines - you can ask Gaynor or Clare (WW editors) a question or just praise them for the fiction in the weekly and the Fiction Special. You can use your fb account to sign in but I found it easier to register with my name and email (email addy only accepts all lower case)

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  2. Yes, it's a shame. I'm told that Take a Break are dropping their fiction slot too! I think it's all this 'true life' misery stuff that people like to read rather than stories?? They must be mad... It's so depressing...

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  3. I agree. It seems that everyone has gone mad on the reality act!

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