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The Bridgette James Poetry Competition will open on April 1 and close noon, April 30, 2025.

This year’s theme is Nature and You.

Contestants are invited to submit a 40-line poem on the theme which can be broadly interpreted. You could write an eco-poem, a poem about the environment, nature, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.

About The Bridgette James Poetry

Competition

Submit a

40-Line Poem on Nature and You.

The Bridgette James Poetry Competition will open on April 1 and close noon, April 30, 2025.

This year’s theme is ‘Nature and You.’

Contestants are invited to submit a 40-line poem on the theme which can be broadly interpreted.

About Judge

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- To Be Announced

Prize Paid Via Western Union - $40 USD.

Top three (3) contestants to be published in Penned in Rage Hardcover.

Terms & Conditions

Contestants must have subscribed to website to be eligible to enter. Subscription is free, simply click on the ‘Subscribe’ icon on home page to open up your email app and join site with email to receive notifications. .

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.

Featured Writers, January 2025

News Nigerian Poet, Clement Abayomi, winner of last year's Bridgette James Poetry Competition, has had his poem published in the January- April 2025 edition of Penned in Rage Journal.