Words for the wounded

Words for the Wounded is a charity that raises money via writing prizes and donations for the rehabilitation of wounded servicemen and women. Funds raised go towards the Creative Arts Unit at Help for Heroes' Tedworth House Recovery Centre helping wounded service personnel gain independence and confidence.

£250 1st Prize, £100 2nd Prize, £50 3rd Prize. Closing date 11th March 2014.

Theme: a journey.

More details available here http://www.wordsforthewounded.co.uk/

New Writers Awards 2014

The line-up for this year Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards is now official and glad to say that p&g's own Bridget Khursheed is one of the recipients. A great line up of writers including poets Em Strang, Ann Elizabeth Mackinnon and Jonathan Durie.

You can find out more here http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/blog/press-releases/2014/01/new-writers-awards-2014-announced and about the New Writers Awards here http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing/scottish-book-trust-training-awards/new-writers-awards

PIC - ROB MCDOUGALL

Da Poetry Lounge, Los Angeles United States

This happens every Tuesday at the Greenway Court Theatre - originally built by students as a class project in 1939 to be used as a student social hall. There are open mic and slam nights so take your pick or watch on livestream.

9 PM Tuesdays at the Greenway Court  which can be found at 544 N. Fairfax Blvd, CA 90036. $5 (cash only) on Open Mic Nights but $10 (cash only) on Slam Nights which are the 3rd Tuesday of each month.

More information available here http://dapoetrylounge.com/ or here http://www.greenwayartsalliance.org/ or you can join in by livestream here http://new.livestream.com/accounts/991330/events/1562228.

Burns Window Project

With just six days to go until Burns Night, the Burns Window Project has got poems from Scotland, England and Ireland, but still plenty of windows to fill.

Poets should write their poem in a bold black pen onto an A4 sheet of paper, remembering that most of the poems will be read from several feet away.

• Scan
• Save as a jpeg
• Mail to roncadorapress at gmail.com

Poems should be the poet’s own work, written by them and signed. Deadline is Monday 13th January. They will be displayed as Windows for Burns Night 2014 project from January 17th to February 17th in The Globe Inn, The Coach and Horses and the Robert Burns House Museum in Dumfries.

You can also buy a pamphlet featuring poems from last year’s windows on sale during this year’s event.

More information available here https://www.facebook.com/BurnsWindowsProject

Code Poetry Slam 1.1

Call for works 1.1.

Submit your code/poetry to the Stanford Code Poetry Slam, sponsored by the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Deadline is February 12th, finalists invited to present their work at a poetry slam (place and time TBA). Cash prizes and free pizza! Food, code and poetry...all good.

Stanford University's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL) loosely defines "code poetry": A C++ sonnet? A Haskell haiku? An algorithmic poetry generator? Something completely new? 

Find out more here http://stanford.edu/~mkagen/codepoetryslam/

Thanks to our friend poet and geek Radames Ortiz for this.

BN Poetry Award 2014

Open to ALL African women poets who will not have published a full-length collection of poetry by May 2014. This award accepts entries from January 6th to May 5th 2014.

Judged by Kgafela oa Magogodi, Joanne Arnott and Richard Ali:

• Submissions should be original, in English and not more than 40 lines. 
• Send a maximum of three poems and a minimum of one poem to Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation at bnpoetryaward@mail.com as a word attachment. 
• The subject line should read, “BNPA 2014”

Full details  (which you should read before sending) available here www.bnpoetryaward.co.ug

Burn your thumb

Take a look at Burned Thumb in its Facebook entity. (The story of the burned thumb is a good one known to me from the stories of Fionn mac Cumhaill and concerns gaining an understanding of all the languages of the world and salmon - subjects close to p&g's heart.)

Elizabeth Rimmer its host describes herself as "poet, gardener and river-watcher". And her site and poetry are full of things pleasing to p&g readers. She is also one of the editors of Stravaig the online journal of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics.

Find out more here http://burnedthumb.co.uk/ and here https://www.facebook.com/burnedthumb?fref=ts and here http://www.redsquirrelpress.com/RimmerBIOG.html