As a fiction writer, I certainly think that fiction writers deserve more visibility. Writing fiction takes quite a long time. A typical chapter could take as long as 5 hours.
On the other hand, a typical blog post usually takes about 20 minutes. Some people are even posting little simple pictures that only take a minute or two. Compare these with a 5-hour fiction post that doesn't get a lot of recognition and you can see that it can be quite frustrating.
I've been attempting to make the fiction community better on Steemit by hosting the occasional story contest.
I got a lot of entries in my last contest, there were a lot of good stories too, however the initial post did not get very many upvotes. It seems as though people lately aren't being very generous with their votes. It would certainly be nice to see the fiction community gain more traction though.
Albeit I am not a fiction writer myself, I would say this is definitely true. As a platform which rewards so-called 'Proofs of Brain', contents created should be rewarded equally. I could definitely see an opportunity of realizing this into a platform similar to SteemSTEM or Musing.io which allows publications submission from many interesting yet talented fictions writers.
As you mentioned you have created a lot of contests, I am actually interested to hear what do you think of my this particular idea! How feasible this could be?
I've thought about this kind of thing a lot too. However, in order for it to work it would need delegation. A large block of delegation granted to it that would create the drive for people to contribute.
If this platform lasts for a long time, and becomes a lot more popular, then I think such a delegation would be a good idea for fiction authors.
As it stands though, I doubt that the powers that be would be willing to grant a delegation to a site that doesn't solve an immediate problem.
I could be wrong though. It could be the very first fiction based blogging site that rewards it's contributors and it's readers. That would be amazing.
The problem here is that you will never know if it will receive delegation unless you try, as you say there are a large number of writers I don't see why it wouldn't get some attention. If if you don't get delegation, you can still build something which A) gets more visibility for fiction entuhasists B) Solve a problem you believe exsists.