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Chris addresses new readers of poetry …

The Recent Pathology of Poetry

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The Recent Pathology of Poetry

The Recent Pathology of Poetry

A message to Our Readers

We are emerging from a period when published poetry has been the well-managed art of an isolated and notoriously small elite into a more expansive and deregulated market focused outwards towards its audience. Poetry (capital P) is, thank goodness, the product of its readerships and not its [...]

Don Share?s ?Squandermania?

Erin Belieu offers a simply knockout review of Don Share?s
Squandermania
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Review of Linda Cracknell’s recent reading from ‘The Searching Glance’ in Dumfries

The Robert Burns Centre saw the welcome return last week of two well-kent writers who took part in a Short Story Evening. Linda Cracknell, who has been involved with the CREATE Team doing workshops in Dumfries and Galloway schools, and Sara Maitland, Galloway’s own homegrown writer who grew up near Dalbeattie. Sara recently returned to [...]

Salt Invited to the Frank O’Connor Festival

How chuffed am I — I’ve been invited by the wonderful people at Frank O’Connor Prize to attend their awards festival in September! They have asked me to take part in a round-table discussion on the short story. I am so pleased to be invited; what a fantastic opportunity to meet the world’s short story [...]

BIG FESTIVAL, LITTLE BOOKSHOP…

WEST CORK LITERARY FESTIVAL, BANTRY, IRELAND. July 6th -12th

As Lord Puttnam said,
The best food, the most fun and the nicest people in Europe, what more could anyone want – other than an all but obsessive interest in good writing; along with the desire to celebrate the work of those who have made a success [...]

Frank O’Connor longlister David Gaffney presents Destroy Powerpoint

It’s great to be longlisted for the Frank O’Connor prize – but I bet I would have had a better chance of getting on the short list had my book Aromabingo been presented in PowerPoint format. Well, it’s not, but you can see my project Destroy Powerpoint, a set of ultra short stories about powerpoint [...]

Elizabeth Baines interviewed by Eric Forbes

Eric Forbes’s Book Addict’s Guide to Good Books

ELIZABETH BAINES was born in South Wales and lives in Manchester. She has been a teacher and is an occasional actor as well as the prize-winning author of plays for radio and stage, and of two novels, The Birth Machine and Body Cuts. Her award-winning short stories have [...]

Buy all eight Salt books on Amazon

All eight Salt titles are available and in stock at Amazon, why not buy them all now and make your own mind up about who should win the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award?

Elizabeth Baines: Balancing on the Edge of the World

Richard Bardsley: Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love

Linda Cracknell: The Searching Glance

Carys Davies: Some New [...]

Sam Leith congratulates Vanessa Gebbie in The Telegraph blog

And, I’m proud as punch to say, it paid off. In the last couple of weeks I’ve had happy news from two of our five winners. Vanessa Gebbie’s first collection of short stories …

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