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Has anyone NOT won an award from poetry.com when submitting a poem?

I have submitted 2 poems now and both of them "won" awards. I think that these are ploys to get us to buy a book, but I wanted to know if anyone had submitted a poem and NOT won an award...Thanks.


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They are indeed both ploys to get you sucked into their scheme. This is a vanity publisher (these kind of places existed long before the Internet) and they take advantage of the fact that everyone is so desperate to be printed. There is a huge difference between printing and publishing and what they are doing is really only printing. It is not real publishing. Yes, everyone wins award after award and they are told how brilliant they are. You could send in the words "Bibbidy, bobbidy, boop" and rhyme it with "Hippity, hoppity, hoop" and win an award. Please stay away from those places.