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I got a Pushcart nomination. Hello 🙋♂️. Yep…
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We’re delighted to announce that poems from Bridgette James, Tom McLaughlin & Ceri Morgan have been nominated for the 2027 Pushcart Prize. 🤞
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This is for all the writers ( and want to be writers) in this beautiful community 💖✍🏼👩💻👨🏻💻📝. This gave me some serious guffaws and I hope it does for you as well 👍🏼💙. Happy writing ✍🏼🙏🏼. @LouDPhillips @DzintraSullivan @ChrisBohjalian @therealSIR3 @hwinkler4real @AuthorFleur @donnacox1021 @drdoomed01 @jameshealyjr
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Have you secured your paperback copy of Gestating Creatures? ditheringchaps.com/shop/p/ge…
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I’m available for virtual interviews and planning one with a UK charity already.
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It was great to hear your poems at your launch last night. Many thanks for inviting me to share some of my work, and best of luck with your collection. 🦋
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I posed for Egon Schiele on a Gynaecological Ward
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My skin is the sombre grey of a cadaver,
speckled with purple veins — a carbon copy
of Schiele’s emaciated mother,
Like a tipped palette cup, I spew green bile.
Mum’s baby-bump massages are synchronised
with the chorus of her song. Think of a name.
Spare me your dose of laughing gas, mum.
So, breaths laboured she soothes a patient
with frenzied prayers instead of analgesics.
Papa God, you glued Michal’s womb shut.
And blessed Hannah who fasted and prayed.
Bless my daughter with a son.
Schiele unmasks mum’s God — a habit’s hood falls off a face
God is colluding with a sinister monk,
stealthily waiting to snatch my foetus.
The truth is a long epidural needle entering my spine.
And I’m pregnant with Schiele’s fear of dying —
in the first trimester of a foetus’s life.
Mum says a childless Krio woman wears
that shame like a flamboyant head wrap.
And at my age, I am a brittle oil painting.
The impious monk’s prediction is inked
into the verso of Schiele’s canvas:
‘This sitter’s womb will be her baby’s coffin.’
Reference: Pregnant Woman and Death (1911), by Egon Schiele
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Bridgette is inviting you to the Virtual Launch of Gestating Creatures. Published by Dithering Chaps Press. Contact Me for Zoom Link. Time: Saturday Oct 3, 2026 07:00 PM London
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Because like a Black nightshade, I am gamopetalous.
Each month one of my diseased petals falls off.
But the other consanguineous petals bleed too.
And stolen from a Tiger lily, my pollen stains everything:
an ex-fiancé’s cheap duvet cover or his luxurious sheet.
Because my naughty petals are replicating as fast as yeast.
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B. James
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Y’ALL!
Our inbox is a little light at the moment. Want to submit something? We’re open to everything, but spooky stories are especially welcome. 🎃👻
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What will you be reading in October/Booktober?
I’d be reading 📖 Jamaican 🇯🇲 Literature. 😀👇
Marlon James’s: ‘The Disappearers’ & Jenny Mitchell’s Resurrection of a Black Man.’
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I am gamopetalous. / Each month, one of my diseased petals falls off. / But the other consanguineous petals bleed too. / And stolen from a tiger lily, my pollen stains everything: / an ex-fiancé's cheap duvet cover or his luxurious sheets.
COPYRIGHTED — ‘Go Back to the Root Word’ From Gestating Creatures B. James (2026) Dithering Chaps Press
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Well done if you made the cut and are amongst the thirty-four creatives to be featured in Edition 6 of the journal. The new masthead have done creative writing at Uni, and have raised the bar to the stratosphere.
We will feature some of the best story writers from the UK, Nigeria, South Africa and showcase some fab poets too.
Ola W. Halim FINE O. Ee already feba model, noto so?
Penned in Rage 6 Will Feature:
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Daddie shakes my hand first—firm, bone-on-bone. Then he settles on the squeaking bench in a corner or the room. But the rickety furniture doesn't collapse under his weight.
Oversized Prison Uniforms
By Ola W. Halim
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Ladies and gents, you may now download my chapbook: Gestating Creatures on Amazon for £6.
[Published by Dithering Chaps Press]
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Ladies and gents you may now download or buy my chapbook: Gestating Creatures on Amazon for £6. 😃
[Published by Dithering Chaps Press]
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My GP says 'it means you bleed why you shouldn't.' #BBUK
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Gestating Creatures eBook by Bridgette James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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I am gamopetalous. / Each month, one of my diseased petals falls off. / But the other consanguineous petals bleed too. / And stolen from a tiger lily, my pollen stains everything: / an ex-fiancé's cheap duvet cover or his luxurious sheets.
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— ‘Go Back to the Root Word’
From Gestating Creatures B. James (2026) Dithering Chaps Press.
Virtual Book 📕 Launch Saturday 3rd October
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