Comments on: Avoiding Poetry Contest Scams

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:15:59 +0000

I don't know how my comment got all screwed up but what I was trying to say is that I know how you feel if you've ever been scammed by the host of a poetry contest. At unitedworldpoets we always run free cash-prize poetry contests and I plan on running our next one at the end of this month. .-= Nat´s last blog ..UNITEDWORLDPOETS-MYTHIC POETRY =-.

By: Nat

Nat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:10:27 +0000

this very true there are poetry scams out and I've been scammed one a long time, but unitedworldpoets poetry contests are free to enter which means their anti scam. But in all seriousness I know how you scammed poets which is why I run free poetry contests. .-= Nat´s last blog ..UNITEDWORLDPOETS-MYTHIC POETRY =-.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:52:42 +0000

Hi…I said I would be back and let you know if I received my $100 for winning this year on Feb.24th. I did not, and the LuLu.com website said that poetry.com went out of business,a nd that LuLu.com has nothing to do with what was owed to people fro prizes, YET they do have the url http://www.poetry.com as a website for LuLu.com. PEOPLE…do not post on this sight. You will only be letting them have your poems, and anyone can copy them ans use them anywhere, even though they are copyrighted. KEEP your own poems and share them with firends and family. Save them for your grandchildren to read one day. You get nothing for free on these places. It’s a joke, and I have written them to remove my poems, and they wrote back and said they would. So here’s to waiting to see what happens!!

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:32:09 +0000

I have not yet published any poems. I am a fourteen year old who is searching for an honest site that will truly appreciate my passion for poetry. I have been wanting to published them already, but I was worried that some of these sites may be lieing about what they are preparing to offer. I got to this site, (thankfully!) and I have read these various comments and I appreciate for your input on these scam sites (now I know which ones not to go to! )
If anybody is aware or a hundred percent certain of sites that are available to canadian residents, are not a scam, have a good reward, please feel free to post for my benefit and others. Thankyou.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:29:07 +0000

One more thing to watch out for. If they do not have a phone number so that you can ask questions, or ask for the poems you submitted on line be removed, WATCH OUT!!!! Also the email is never answered. REMEMBER THIS….SCAMS!!!!!!!!!! are out there and those people are laughing at us all. AND..SHOULD I get the 100 dollars for my last win on Feb.24th 2009, I will let you know. If you would like to see my poems on Lulu.com, where I didn’t give that website to have them from poetry.com, look under Deborah Kaye Perry!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:16:16 +0000

Hi out there to you all. I won a medal from poetry.com which was the size of a half dollar. Pure silver worth 75 dollars. I also won $100.oo in the poetry n motion contest years ago, and it took me about 3 years to win again. I figured it was because I wasn’t buying anything. I didn’t go to the awards or pay any out of pocket monies to them. I recently won this year 2009 On February 24th. They didn’t pay me. I have still been looking to get it, but the website has changed now to Lulu.com. I wrote to the new purchaser of that site and they have not answered. You used to be able to call poetry.com, but now the recording says to respond to Info@poetry.com. What a joke on all of us. They got underwater and left us all hanging, and the new site does not allow you to play poetry n motion. Is AMERICA corrupt or not? YOU bet it IS!!!!! People care not anymore, and use others to do deceive for money. Lucky for me I got something before they stiffed me on my win this year. I would suggest putting all your poems in a folder at home where no one can steal them. Then if you can..find a publisher to help you print your own real BOOK for your enjoyment. Leave your poems to your grandchildren to remember you by. They will love your poems when they grow up.

By: Cletus Holloway

Cletus Holloway — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:49:14 +0000

In march of 2006 i recieved an Editors choice Award for my Poem from poetry.com and as with most of you i did not buy the Book that my Poem was supposed to have been written in and i did not attend their convention,but i would like to go on record with the rest of these poor souls as just another victim of Poetry.com May they all choke on their ill gotten gain!

By: Patricia Thomason

Patricia Thomason — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:27:30 +0000

I have just self published a book of poetry called “Mama sewed buttons on it’s face..And I thought that it could see” I also make a CD that is in the back of the book of me reading the poems with soft music behind it. Now comes the fun of trying to get it “out there” visit me and listen at http://www.patpoet .com

By: Robert C

Robert C — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:06:42 +0000

plz if you find a lagit site email me at RobBob3rd@aol.com

By: Robert C

Robert C — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:02:04 +0000

hey i have some poetry that i have been told was good, and i want to try my hand in poetry contests, anyone know anything lagit

i want my poetry to be published but not in some scam

plz if you have any advice notify me