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The Annual Bridgette James Poetry Competition, UK & African Diaspora, Online Submissions Form

Please Use This Form to Upload Your Competition Entry

NO PDFs

A file browser window will pop up, when you click the + icon, allowing you to navigate your computer's local files to select your competition entry as a word document.

Please do not forget to upload your entry and click the submit button.

Please ensure you’re submitting the final version of your poem. No changes can be made once submission is received and anonymised.

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Enter the Annual Poetry Competition

Please familiarise yourself with the competition rules.

Simultaneous submissions NOT ALLOWED.

When the competition OPENS, please submit ONE poem ONLY on the topic: OUTSIDER.  Only one poem can be submitted. However, I advise that you concentrate on drafting and redrafting your poem before submitting it. In the past grammatical errors have cost entrants a win.

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Emailed Entries: Nigeria

This form will not accept submissions after midnight on May 31 2026.

Alphabetical List of Sub-Saharan African Countries 

  • Angola

  • Benin

  • Botswana

  • Burkina Faso

  • Burundi

  • Cabo Verde

  • Cameroon

  • Central African Republic

  • Chad

  • Comoros

  • Congo, Democratic Republic of

  • Congo, Republic of

  • Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)

  • Djibouti

  • Equatorial Guinea

  • Eritrea

  • Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)

  • Ethiopia

  • Gabon

  • Gambia, The

  • Ghana

  • Guinea

  • Guinea-Bissau

  • Kenya

  • Lesotho

  • Liberia

  • Madagascar

  • Malawi

  • Mali

  • Mauritania

  • Mauritius

  • Mozambique

  • Namibia

  • Niger

  • Nigeria

  • Rwanda

  • São Tomé and Príncipe

  • Senegal

  • Seychelles

  • Sierra Leone

  • Somalia

  • South Africa

  • South Sudan

  • Sudan

  • Tanzania

  • Togo

  • Uganda

  • Zambia

  • Zimbabwe 

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