Famous Poets Society
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The Famous Poets Society is a vanity press
that offers a poetry contest, a convention contest, and vanity publishing opportunities. Poets can submit their poems online using the website. Nearly all responses, regardless of artistic merit, are accepted for publication. All accepted authors receive an acknowledgment letter and can pay to be published in an anthology
. For their work published, writer
s must buy the anthology
. Claims have been made that when paid, poems have still not been published in the anthologies or include errors.
Vanity press
A vanity press or vanity publisher is a term describing a publishing house that publishes books at the author's expense. Publisher Johnathon Clifford claims to have coined the term in 1959. However, the term appears in mainstream U.S...
that offers a poetry contest, a convention contest, and vanity publishing opportunities. Poets can submit their poems online using the website. Nearly all responses, regardless of artistic merit, are accepted for publication. All accepted authors receive an acknowledgment letter and can pay to be published in an anthology
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
. For their work published, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
s must buy the anthology
Anthology
An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...
. Claims have been made that when paid, poems have still not been published in the anthologies or include errors.