Bridgette James

Bridgette James is a British Sierra Leonean writer whose work has appeared in, or will appear in, Leon Review, Allegro, Gutter, the Lake, Dreich, London Grip, Wildfire Words, Cerasus Magazine, La Piccioletta Barca and other publications. She was longlisted for the Aurora National Prize for Writing in 2022. The 2023 anthology that she edited, What the Seashell Said to Me, is held in the National Poetry Library. Her poetry was commended in the Renard Poetry Competition, 2025 and she won the Flash Fiction Summer Poetry Prize 2024. She holds a First Class BSC Hons in Criminology and Social Policy from the Open University and has worked as a Metropolitan Police Special Constable. She is now her autistic son’s Carer.