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Rob Mackenzie plans his new year reading at Surroundings

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Alexander Hutchison Scales Dog tags: scales?dog , alexander?hutchison

The Times

Another lyrical voice completely new, at least to me, is Isobel Dixon, [...]

sleepless

What is it exactly about business and babies? They both lead to sleepless nights and I’m now in my third or is it fourth week without a full night, largely due to Cameron ? no baby now, as he’s in those terrible twos. Or rather, to be honest, I’ve had two full nights [...]

Jen Hamilton-Emery

Jen Hamilton-Emery, fiction publisher. Photo ? Sascha Akhtar

Jen has been helping folks far flung to understand the delights of a haggis supper:

Yesterday was St Andrew’s Day ? he is the Patron Saint of Scotland (where I’m from though I no longer live there). I thought I’d post [...]

Katherine M. Hedeen and V?ctor Rodr?guez N??ez explain their thinking behind Salt’s new Latin American poetry series which will expand the Native American writing series called Earthworks already run by Janet McAdams.

Earthworks Earthworks, the newly expanded series edited by Katherine M. Hedeen, Janet McAdams and V?ctor Rodr?guez N??ez

This exciting, vital [...]

How pleased were we to have this video pointed out to us today – what talented authors we have. Meet Joe Francis Doerr, circa 1984 in his previous guise as lead singer of The LeRoi Brothers:

Joe says:

“Last Friday I opened the door to the classroom where my honors writing course [...]

Wow, what a party. And what a lucky person I am to be part of this publishing house. I went up to London with Tania Hershman and her partner James. (They were staying for a few days with us in Sussex. Chris joined us later.

Salt Publishing had organised the party [...]

Tania Hershman and Vanessa Gebbie Tania Hershman and Vanessa Gebbie

Now back in Jerusalem, Tania Hersham writes on twelve days in England and the Salt party:

For the first time, I was not sitting in the audience as other writers read and wishing it was me: for the first time, I knew [...]

Elizabeth Baines

Thursday afternoon John and I slammed the door, jumped into the car and raced to the station (we discovered at the last minute that we’d got the time of the train quite wrong!) and within two hours we were in London. (We caught the train by the skin of our teeth, [...]

Steven Waling and Jane Holland Steven Waling and Jane Holland ? Salt Publishing 2007

I had a terrific time at the Salt winter Party at Foyles last Thursday. Firstly, it was great to meet poets who I’ve admired for ages like David Grubb and John Hartley Williams. Secondly, it was great to meet [...]