My girlfriend is a finalist in a poetry contest. What would you do?

@coolseeds (3919)
United States
March 21, 2007 12:08pm CST
My girlfriend is a finalist in a poetry contest. I think she does an excellent job writing. She usually gets 4.0 and going to get her masters degree from who knows where. She has been selected as a finalist in a poetry contest. Should she allow them to get the rights to her work? Please explain why.
2 responses
cher913
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
21 Mar 07
Be careful, a lot of those poetry things are scams (i was scammed by them when i first started writing...they picked your poem as a winner but you had to pay them to buy the book that your poem was in...)
slickcut
@slickcut (8140)
• United States
21 Mar 07
Hey Cool so am I...I write poetry all the time and i sent mine in,they also say mine was in the finals too..There were just a few chosen...They are going to publish my poem,and they will publish your g/f's too,but i don't know who will win,but at least we got in the book...It might be the same one that i am in...Thats cool,good luck to your G/f...
coolseeds
@coolseeds (3919)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I'm glad to hear that you made it. She gets a lot of writer magazines and periodicals. It may be for one of those but she has to do a public reading. She drags me to all of them. A lot of the people who go are published authors. I've met some famous ones too however I don't remember their names. =S Its not my sort of thing to go to a poetry reading but I go for her and work on my sleeping with my eyes open trick. =)