The “cheatfest” continues at The University of Iowa, says an unattributed report at Foetry.com, which notes that for one of the school’s recent awards, the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, the judge was an Iowa graduate who chose, well, an Iowa Workshop graduate. For another award, the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the report notes that winner Douglas Trevor “lives with his wife and son in Iowa City, where he is an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa.” Says Foetry.com, “Let that sink in for a moment. The University allowed current employees to both enter and win its contest. The University allowed graduates to both enter and win its contest. And besides being illegal, it’s also pathetic. Would you want to be known as the writer who won a contest that was a scam?” Another report on the site also details similar conflicts in the school’s poetry awards and publications. And Foetry.com’s discussion forum includes a letter from Iowa’s Holly Carver in response to the website’s charges. “You can call the poetry world overly cozy, full of patronizing trade-offs and shady bargaining,” Carver writes, “or you can celebrate the collegiality of its community.” Foetry.com’s response? “Foetry is calling for action. . . . Use our action form (anonymously or signed) to contact university officials and the attorney general. . . . And our most important call to action is this. . . . We would like to pursue a class-action suit against the University to recover victims’ entry fees and end Foetry. If you entered one of their bogus contests, and would like to help us, we have a plan. Please contact us at any word at foetry.com. We will provide some financial support for court filing fees and telephone calls.”