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About Bridgette James

I'm a British Writer born in Sierra Leone, West Africa. I write poetry  and various genres of short stories.

I've studied English Literature, Social Policy and Criminology and worked in the UK as a Police Constable.

I've been published recently in the following Magazines:

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Publishing History

My poem won the Fiction Factory Summer 2024 Competition

https://fiction-factory.biz/winning-poetry-competition/

A poem of mine appears in the publication below:

CERASUS Poetry Magazine # 3: Amazon.co.uk: Wilks, John: 9798340513328: Books

A poem of mine was shortlisted for the Renard Press 2024 competition

 Building Bridges Anthology – Poetry Competition – Renard Press

I was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize, 2024.

Wildfire Words, August 2024

Two Poems Appeared in Lothlorien Poetry Journal

Lothlorien Poetry Journal: Two Poems by Bridgette James

OS6 June-Aug 2024 (wildfire-words.com)

The Lake-

July 2024

https://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/bridgette-james/

London Grip (December 2023)

https://londongrip.co.uk/.../london-grip-new-poetry.../...

 

Gutter (March 2023)

Dreich (March 2023)

Wildfire Words (5 times between 2022 and 2023)

https://wildfire-words.com/rem-poetry/#Bridgette-James

 

Fib Review

https://musepiepress.com/fibreview/bridgette_james1.html

 

Longlisted for the Aurora National Prize 2022

https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/bridgette-james/

 

Bristol Noir short stories (2023)

https://www.bristolnoir.co.uk/flash-fiction-dont-knock.../

 

Our self-published anthology, What the Seashell Said to Me (2022) has been legally deposited and is available in the National Poetry Library (please see attached photo).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/.../B0BNJHYV7T/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?

 

Misjudged and Misperceived published by Zambia Arts Publication 2023.

 

Historic publications

1. Lice in the Lion's Mane 1995 (editor, Dr Hannah Hope wells; deceased).

https://openlibrary.org/.../OL232.../Lice_in_the_lion's_mane

2. Songs that pour the heart 2004 (editor, Gibril Sesay).

https://www.worldcat.org/.../songs-that.../oclc/62268752

3. Kalashnikov In The Sun 2009 (editor, Kirsten Rian).

https://www.wolfboewig.de/kalashnikov-in-the-sun-an.../