🎆 Poetry Competition

Theme: Bombs Bursting in Air

Sky-splitting color. Memory on fire.

This round’s prompt is: “Bombs Bursting in Air”
(or Fireworks, if you prefer the softer spark).
Literal or metaphorical. Explosive or intimate.
We want your most brilliant, blistering work.

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⟶ Rules:
• One original poem
• One entry per person
• Free entry
• 32–40 lines or ~150–250 words
• Submit via email (submissions@inkfirerebellion.com) by Friday, July 4th

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🏆 Prizes:
🥇 First Place – $50 + Solo feature (Substack + Instagram), intro + mini-interview
🥈 Second Place – Free entry for next competition + Highlighted feature
🥉 Third Place – Free entry for next competition + Honorable mention (and still canonized)

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Winning poems will light up this page
for readers to remember, reread, and feel in their chests like aftershocks.

If your verse can shimmer, rupture, or ache like an anthem
we want it.

Write loud. Write light.
Let it burn like memory.

—

Luciana Fisher

&

Cassian Delmare