I'll throw this question out there. It seems like all the big publications are about topics I'm not very interested in. Isn't there a place to publish political opinion, relationships, poverty issues or things like that? I wrote something I thought would be a natural for a memoir publication, but after a month my story was not acknowledged in any way so I withdrew it and published it myself. The pieces that have earned a few hundred bucks are always about relationships or about poverty/economics. I self-published them because such topics don't seem to have a home here.