as in nofiction stories?

Isn't that what true means?

yes. I was just askin.

lol...

I love that magazine.
It's kind of a non-denominational magazine of inspiring, sometimes religious stories.
Quite a few celebrities contribute stories.

hm. I suppose that would be interesting, but I still prefer fiction.

There used to be some SF/Fantasy magazines that took stories.
They encouraged new writers.

I can't think of their names now though...

i know of two sci-fi magazines and one sci-fi/fantasy.

You should write for one of the Fantasy mags.

I think it's Amazing Stories?

I haven't heard of that one.

I'm not even sure it's around.
Try googling it.

I know that they used to encourage new writers, and they were always asking for stories.

I found an old science fiction magazine.
this? Amazing Stories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I see from that story that the last issue was in 2005.
That's too bad.

yeah. that magazine doesn't appear to be active anymore.

But there are others.
You should send them some of your stories!

i found the website for the scifi/fantasy magazine I used to get. its funny, the site says they mostly get fantasy submissions, but I don't think I ever read a true fantasy story in them. mostly it was all paranormal. I stopped getting the magazine because the stories weren't very good. they do take unsolicited submissions though.

Before sending anything to any magazine, you should copyright it.
Do they cover anything about that in your writing classes?

copyright? no, I don't know anything about this. I've only taking beginner writing classes so far, so they wouldn't talk about that. since I'm not a writing major, I also won't have to take the classes where they would talk about that. my dad probably knows about this stuff. I'll talk to him.

That would be good. You don't want somebody stealing your stories...

yeah. I'm sure I'll get things figured out before i start submitting work. my goal for the summer is to get published though. I need to build up a portfolio of good short stories.

It's a good goal to have...but probably really hard to do.
I know that some people go years without getting published.

true. i'm going to start with L. Ron Hubbard's writing of the future contest for unpublished writers.

I've never read any of his books...

He's the Scientology founder, right?

I don't know much of anything about him.

Well, you should go for it anyway!

of course. I really like the writers of the future books.