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Penned in Rage Literary Journal

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Lead Editor

Chukwuebuka Onyishi

About the Editor

Incoming Poetry Editor

​Janine Milne

About the Poetry Editor

 

Incoming ​Story Editor​

Lergon Parris

​Staff Writer

Brett Anderson

About the Staff Writer

 

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Mission Statement

Penned in Rage Journal amplifies voices from marginalized and underrepresented communities.

The Journal is part of the Ella's Poems Project, launched in January 2022. This project uses creative writing activities to achieve these objectives:

  • The main focus of this project is to promote a love for reading in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Ella’s Poems targets young people in the African continent, between the ages of fifteen and thirty-five - who are active online - in a bid to create a writers' hub on Facebook. Many creatives have found this sort of networking has not only helped them improve their writing skills but more importantly they'd been able to discover local writing opportunities. 

  • Ella’s Poem’s Project also celebrates the work of African creatives, such as their art, poems, stories and novels, irrespective of one’s social status.

  • Many of the creatives who have benefited from this initiative have never written a poem or story in English before.  So, our free writing competitions and published books, positively impact their lives.

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Peter Ezeh

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Dr T. Dallas Saylor

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Chidebelu Nnazoba

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Thabani Denzel Nkosi

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Colin James

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Ethan Bramwell

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Chukwuebuka Onyishi

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Brett Anderson

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Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto

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Chisom Umeh

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Obiotika Toochukwu

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Henry Opeyemi

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Latest News Articles

The 2026 Bridgette James competition was won by South African Poet, Janine Milne. Go the Competition News Page to read more.

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The winner of the Youngest Submitter Prize, in The 2026 Bridgette James Poetry Competition, is Fifteen-year-old Olivia Caldeira. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is still trying to find her true self. Writing is a constant in her life. This is her first time submitting her work anywhere. She hopes to grow her writing skills and is grateful for this opportunity

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About the Lead Editor of Penned in Rage

Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee: Onyishi Chukwuebuka (he/him) is a Publicity Secretary for Muse no. 51, and a graduate of the University of Nigeria. He is the winner of the 2025 Coalition of African Literature in partnership with the University of Leicester’s Avoidable Deaths Network and the SEVHAGE Literary and Development Initiative, a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, runner-up for the 2025 Bridgette James Poetry Prize, a shortlist for the inaugural BCD-Utulu Prize, Reader at Chestnut Review, and longlisted for the Paradise Gate House. His work has appeared in Eye to the Telescope: (non)binaries, Harrow House, Northern Writers Forum, Heathentide Orphans: Zoetic Press, African Studies Review, Pill Bottle Press, The Port Harcourt Literary Review, Wherein The World, African Studies Review, The Biochar, Strange Quark Press, Kathai Literary, The Nine Muses Review, Ojuju Magazine, Poets in Nigeria Initiative, EveryBody Magazine, University of Bournemouth Journal, African Migration Report, The Muse Journal, Hidden Peek Press, and elsewhere. He tweets @Bukaty33612. Read more about him here: https://ellaspoems.com/general-9#editorial-chukwuebuka-onyishi.

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