Is anyone under 30 involved in local short story zines?

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So I was talking to penchaft about her writing, and started thinking about of the many people on my flist involved in local small press sff short story publishing (It seems to me that submitting to something like Borderlands would be a good next step, but I'm not sure she agrees).

Listing you all in my head I was struck by the fact that you're all older than me¹, ie 30+. Which, ok, so it takes a little while to get into that sort of thing, but thinking back I'm sure Lily started Fables back in her early to mid 20s, and similarly with a lot of the people on Borderlands etc. Looking through the submitters to Borderlands and Ticonderoga the (admittedly few) names I recognise are all older than me apart from a few of the artists.

Thinking about the younger creative types on my flist, their output and energy seems to go into:

• online into livejournals (their own or writing communities), often but not always as fanfic;
  
• Webcomics (this includes me of course :)) which if anything will likely be self published;
  
• Publications of manga-style comics (Pencafe, Xuan Xuan, jamwaf) This kind of includes me since I was in jamwaf once, but somewhat by accident :);
  
• Organising conventions (not writing related, but worth mentioning as a different "next step into being an involved adult fan" thing)
  

(Some of the older ones do these things too, of course)

Is this simply the result of my younger friends being more comicsy and my older friends being more writingy? Or the fact that people change as they get older? Or is there some sort of "generational"² shift away from prose 'zines? I get the feeling younger people³ still read them.

Still, to everyone who is under and/or over 30, lives in Perth⁴ and writes/edits: what has been your experience? Am I full of crap? I am aren't I?

(Random sidenote: trying to find a link for Fables and Reflections I came across this rather bizarre article with a use for sff zines I wouldn't have thought of... )

(1)Yes, I am discounting Piffle as a small press publisher, sorry grahame etc :) And in case anyone doesn't know and is wondering, I'm 28. It occurs to me that Liz Gryzb would only be 29, but since she's not on my flist and is older than me my point stands :)
(2) Where a "generation" lasts like 7 years :)
(3) Who aren't me. Sorry, I know, the peer pressure is pretty intense but I just don't like short stories.
(4) That said, those who don't live in Perth are free to say stuff too, but I am mainly interested in this as a local phenomenon.