Bridgette James

The Annual Bridgette James Poetry Competition, Returns on Wednesday April 1st 2026. Closes midnight BST on Thursday 30th APRIL 2026.💕Submit a poem on the theme: OUTSIDER, in a Word Document. Up to 10 (ten) prizes to be won. Judges & Selection Panel below: ellaspoems.com

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Issue 35 | Bridgette James #poem (OUTSIDER theme) A Montage of my Abscission. ---------------------------------- My cameo was on a gardening show. A self-seeding Sea Holly half-way into my autumn changing into the other category in an exposé on ethnicity data. Reborn a Pidgin-speaker - in a hair-extension shop in the London News, I replied in English to How you day? Saturated with the Six O’clock News I told my son violence is on the rise where father hollered expletives when I killed a baby cockroach. & I watched myself holding impromptu funerals in Homes-by-the-Sea. I was a buyer cackling at midges because my screen doors doubled-up as a gravesite. I became a disused replica of the old-me - a property semi-detached from a protective layer a dad cocooned a child in. In a state of flux in a cooking show I was a three-legged trivet: a dish-not-local-to-Britain a dominating African herb & a contestant’s gravy boat capsized into a primetime debate about too many migrants. On my son’s computer screen, I morphed into a buccaneer pirate avatar manning an ocean & shouting exterminate all those seafaring invaders. Or they’ll sneak into our enclave & dominate it. leonliteraryreview.com/issue-35-bridg… #Irán #Dubaï #migrant #uk

The Annual Bridgette James Poetry Competition, Returns on Wednesday April 1st 2026. Closes midnight BST on Thursday 30th APRIL 2026.💕Submit a poem on the theme: OUTSIDER, in a Word Document. Up to 10 (ten) prizes to be won. Judges & Selection Panel below: ellaspoems.com

I found this gem 💎 in Chinua’s book 📕 On Chinualumogy Once Living in Lincoln, Nebraska [I] once lived in Lincoln and here is what I think of it: "It was curiosity that led me to you, Lincoln. You city. City of touch and tease, immaculate, foxy, and reeved in a gallery of vintage. With you, I was made to drift toward reason and still hold onto faith and resilience. With you, I discovered how much it meant to not be liked by people around me and who flashed me fake smiles. And the last lines: What does my passport mean to you, Lincoln? Every memory gained was a tiger claw survived. Page 75, The Naming, COPYRIGHTED @ChinuaEzenwa #poetrylovers #AMERICA

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I’m happy to see a publisher pull an AI-generated book. I hope it has a chilling effect on people trying to sell AI slop. If you can’t be bothered to write it, we can’t be bothered to read it. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…

Welp. I've been expecting a scandal like this sooner rather than later nytimes.com/2026/03/19/boo…

I’m pleased to announce that head judge for the 2026 Bridgette James Poetry Competition is Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto.. ​ The brilliant Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he is also a teaching assistant. He holds a Master of Arts in English Language and Literature. Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto is the author of a collection of poems: The Naming (University of Nebraska Press, 2025) and the chapbook: The Teenager Who Became My Mother. ellaspoems.com/thebridgetteja…

Thrilled to share that my debut collection, Songs for a Burning Continent, is now available on @NuriaStore Kenya. Link to order: nuriakenya.com/product/songs-… Buy, share, and review my work. Thank you to everyone who's supported me.

If missed the online reading of The Naming, here it is available to listen to. @thomistpoets?si=g5p7DG6gtz5FeFXw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@thomistpoets?…

We aren’t here to read your first draft. 😱🤭. Hope your poem’s been edited, read aloud & is ready to be submitted? 2 weeks to go 👇 ellaspoems.com #festadolíder #İran #Africa

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@BeesPoems When does submission start?

‘Girl is a home. A home disturbed and undisturbed by passersby. She is a home with ruffled hair; with debris and rubble sitting and un-sitting in her marrow.’ [Can you relate to this protagonist in @ChinuaEzenwa’s ‘Once Upon a Girl, a Place of History’?] And why’s my croissant 🥐 burnt? 🤔🤭👇

This is why I wrote "The Naming." Have you gotten your copies yet?

thewritelaunch.com/2026/02/synony… Ladies and gentlemen, I’m so chuffed to have THREE of my poems published at once. I’m excited about my forthcoming collection too. #paobc #1Companhia #Domingão #NancyGuthrie #FreeIran #whatisyourlovesong #EpsteinFiles