C.D. Wright, the University of Georgia Press, and Mail Fraud
By
Adam Hardin
The University of Georgia holds the Contemporary Poetry Series contest each year, open to the public. The winner has their manuscript of poetry published by the University. The entry fee is twenty dollars. First, the Poetry Series Editor, Bin Ramke, narrows down […]
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After multiple requests from Foetry, dating to September 19th, we were only given the judges’ names for books published 1998 through the the present. These thirty books illustrated how often the series exploits entrants’ hopes by accepting their manuscripts and entry fees, and how often the contest’s secrecy has been a front for slimy […]
In the past few weeks we have received numerous tips about various shady contests and judges who have participated in fraud operations: charging you money to read (or discard) your manuscript, while selecting a friend, student, or spouse (!) as winner. Among the most-recently reported contests in question are Verse Press’ Prize, the Barnard […]
There is an epidemic in poetry publishing in the United States: university presses have become entangled in an unethical and fraudulent contest system that jeopardizes the very institutions that support them. Many university presses purport to award publication to the best manuscript out of hundreds or even thousands of entries, accompanied by […]