The Bridgette James Poetry Competition will open on 8 April and close noon, 30 May, 2025.
This year’s theme is Nature and You.
Contestants are invited to submit a 40-line, non-metered poem on the theme which can be broadly interpreted. You should write an eco-poem (a poem about the environment or nature), focusing on the relationship between humans and the natural world.
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You are free to focus on manmade-environmental issues such as oil mining, harvesting trees for firewood, use of fossil fuels and pollution, from the first person narrative.
Submit online - To Be Announced
Submit Via email- ellaswriting@mail.com
Prize Paid Via Western Union - $40 USD.
Top three (3) contestants to be published in Penned in Rage Hardcover.
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I’m proud the announce the second annual Bridgette James Poetry Competition to find new, unpublished talent.
OPENS 8 APRIL 2025
Rules
It is recommended all entrants read the rules carefully before entering. If you have any questions, please see email ellaswriting@mail.com
Rules: General and Eligibility
The competition is open to anyone aged 18 or over at the time of entering living in African or Afro-Caribbean countries.
The closing date of the competition is noon (GMT UK time), 08 May 2025.
Only one (1) entry can be submitted per person. All entries will be considered anonymously by the judge.
Entries will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
Under no circumstances can alterations be made to poems once entered.
Online/emailed entries will receive automatic confirmation soon after submission via email.
The competition organiser reserves the right to change the judge without notice and not to award prizes if, in the arbiter’s opinion, such an action is justified.
The judge reads entries; his decision is final. Neither the judge nor Ellaspoems.com will enter into any correspondence thereafter.
No relative/close associates of the judge/arbiter is eligible to enter the Bridgette James Poetry Competition.
Rules: Poems
All entries are judged anonymously, and the poet’s name must not appear on the poem itself.
All poems must have a title and must not exceed 40 lines in length (excluding title). Entries should be on the theme: Nature and You in the first person narrative.
Poems must be written in standard English at an EAL Level 4.
Poems must be the entrant’s original work. AI-generated work is prohibited. A plagiarism checker is used to scan for entries. In the past, results led to disqualification of two participants.
Entries must not have been published, self-published, published on a website or made public on social media, broadcast or featured among the winners in another competition before submission,
Rules: Entry Fee
Non-Applicable. All submissions are free.
Rules: Winners
Prize winners will be notified by the end of June 2025 and invited to an online awards event on Facebook. All winners will be expected to provide a biography and photograph.
All entrants who provide a valid email address will be notified about the outcome of their entry by the end of June 2025.
The copyright of each poem remains with the author. However, authors of the winning poems, by entering the competition, grant Ellaspoems.com the right in perpetuity to publish their work in Penned in Rage Literary Journal and/or broadcast their poem on Social Media Platforms.
Winner receives $40 USD + Published in
Penned in Rage
Runner-up gets published in Penned in Rage
Contestant placed third gets published in
Penned in Rage Journal.
