I got a letter in the mail yesterday saying that my poem was going to be published in the Anthology of Poetry OF (not By, it’s OF.) Young Americans. I looked on their website and even saw a picture of what the book looks like. There are even samples of other students’ poems that got accepted into the book. Is it a scam?
A lot of the times these Anthologies are. Usually they will ask you to purchase a copy of the book at a price somewhere between 25 to 100 dollars. Most of the time all of the poems sent in were accepted, that’s the way they make their money, selling copies to the authors,it will not be sold anywhere else. So be leary, if they request you to purchase a high priced copy – its a scam.
February 22nd, 2010 at 6:46 am
A lot of the times these Anthologies are. Usually they will ask you to purchase a copy of the book at a price somewhere between 25 to 100 dollars. Most of the time all of the poems sent in were accepted, that’s the way they make their money, selling copies to the authors,it will not be sold anywhere else. So be leary, if they request you to purchase a high priced copy – its a scam.
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