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Online, Ramblings, Rants and Raves - 2 Comments » - Posted on May, 22 at 11:21 am
Okay, well maybe comparing myself to Shakespeare is a bit pretentious but I’m in a boastful mood right now.
Dear Joana,
After carefully reading and discussing your poem, our Selection Committee has certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our International Open Poetry Contest. Your poem will automatically be entered into the final competition held in June 2007. As a semi-finalist, you now have an excellent chance of winning one of 104 cash or gift prizes–including the $1,000.00 Grand Prize…
I signed up with FusionCash a while back, a site that pays you to complete offers, and one of the offers was to submit a poem to poetry.com. In high school I had a friend who always submitted his work and never won, never got picked. So on a whim I picked one of my poems at random, completed the offer, got paid, and thought no more of it. Imagine my surprise when I got this letter in the mail. To top it off my poem is going to be printed in a collection of poems entitled Immortal Verses. Now how cool is that?
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If this is one of those situations where they will ask you to buy the book at a high price, it’s a scam. I used to enter all the poetry ones and photography ones. Everything I ever submitted was accepted, even the things I deliberately wrote to be terrible. And all it ever resulted in was a series of pleas to buy the book in which my work would be published and years and years of spam from them.
If it is an altogether different thing, congrats.
Angie: Well it does have the option to buy the book my poem will be published in, pricey too, but Poetry.com has been around for many years now so I don’t think it’s a scam per se.