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Introducing the Longette: a new poetic form — and a call to action!
The longette is a new, long-short form of poetry, developed by Catherin J Pascal Dunk, in collaboration with Elly Belfort-Mattos and with inspiration from Karuna Mistry. For a longette: A sample longette is available on Wordflowerpoetry.com. There will be an Annual Longette Cooperatition, with some worthy poems announced and promoted on 13 December each year:…
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Stories for Peace
A project by Elijah Astute and the children of Nakivale, with Luca Luigi Ashieri and Catherin J Pascal Dunk The Stories for Peace project aims to give a voice to the children and youth who have fled war and are living in the Nakivale Refugee Camp in Uganda. This will be done through the publication…
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Callout for writing competition judges
Growing the Future is planning to collaborate on a youth refugee stories writing project with Nakivale Refugee Settlement library and Go Green Initiatives in Uganda, East Africa. Elijah Astute has volunteered to encourage and mentor young writers in the settlement, aged 14 to 24, as they write, hone and submit their pieces for a competition.…
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