Last November, Claire Trévien raised money for Refuge by writing 100 poems in a day.

Inspired by this, and in light of the closures of many vital centres that provided care for victims of domestic violence, I am joining Claire in taking up the challenge again on August 15.

I will be at Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, and will write science fictional poems on ephemera found around the con - programme pages, flyers, paper scraps, what have you - throughout the day. To make it remotely feasible to do this while attending a convention, I'm setting my target as 50 poems, and each poem will have a limit of 5 lines.

I am very open to prompts/title suggestions - please leave a note with your pledge, tweet me @toritruslow, or come and find me at Worldcon if you're around!

You can find more information on the closures here: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/03/domestic-violence-refuge-crisis-women-closure-safe-houses

You can read more about Claire's challenge, which I urge you to support if you can, here: https://www.justgiving.com/Claire-Tr-vien/