Salt to launch new free online short story magazine

New story magazine

Salt is to launch a new short story magazine as part of the expansion of its online presence. The magazine is yet to be named and the editorial team is still a close secret, but one insider has divulged that the magazine will contain short fiction in a variety [...]

Nicholas Clee notes Jane Holland's Horizon in today's Times

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Nicholas Clee

An iconic name in the history of the ?little magazine? returns this month. Horizon ( saltpublishing.com/horizon ) is an online journal and pays tribute to the journal of that name from the 1940s. It is edited by Jane Holland and includes [...]

Horizon in today's Guardian

Alison Flood gives the thumbs up to Jane Holland’s Horizon

Have a look at the new Horizon

The new online magazine named after Cyril Connolly’s legendary journal is well worth a click

This morning independent poetry publisher Salt launched online literary magazine Horizon Review, inspired by and named after [...]

Touching the Sky, at Kings Place, Mon 20 Oc

Touching the Sky, at Kings Place, Mon 20 Oct

A spectacular event celebrating the opening of the new Kings Place building, new home of the Guardian and Observer newspapers. Featuring Sir Jeremy Dixon, the architect of Kings Place, Sunand Prasad President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and the distinguished poets Paul [...]

Simon Barraclough at The Betsey Trotwood, October 24th

New Fuselit MixtapeWonderful Fusettes! We bring glad tidings of great joy, for FuseLit is very proud to present our latest event, Mixtape!

Date: Thursday 23 OctoberTime: 7pmPlace: The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BLNearest tube: FarringdonPrice: £3

The premise is simple: a fine gaggle of poets have each put together a [...]

Simon Barraclough at the London Irish Centre

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008London Irish Centre Readings & MusicThursday 18 September@ The London Irish Centre Camden

Simon Barraclough, Viv Fogel, Alison Hill, Paul Lyalls, Jack Stanley and Mags Treanor will be reading and there will be music from Marie McCormack and Les Coughlan.

It all kicks off at 8 p.m. and costs £5/£3 [...]

Horizon in the Blogs

Jane Holland?s Horizon Review has gone live on the Salt Web site, taking over 5,000 page views of its home page in the first 48 hours, and becoming the second most popular access page in the Salt Web site.

Read about Jane’s work in the Horizon blog, Hot Metal .

Over the [...]

In the Bookshops Now — reading Series on Radio 4: 2 Salt Authors this Week!

Listeners of Radio 4 can enjoy hearing two short stories by Salt authors this week in a fabulous series intended to highlight collections of stories in print and easily available, titled ‘In Bookshops Now’: five stories which prove that the art of the short story is alive and well and in print.

The [...]

Carys Davies at Sedbergh Festival of Books

On Wednesday September 10th at 7.30pm, People’s Hall, Sedbergh

Salt short story author Carys Davies will be appearing with the novelist Carol Birch to discuss how they use history in their fiction. Carys will also be reading from her Salt collection ‘Some New Ambush’. Carol, whose historical novel ‘Turn Again Home’ was longlisted [...]

Isobel Dixon at the Bristol Poetry Festival

Bristol Poetry Festival 4 -14 September 2008 Unless otherwise stated, tickets for shows are ?5 each Tickets for events at Arnolfini can be booked from Arnolfini box office: 0117 917 2300/01 Or book online at www.arnolfini.org.uk

Saturday, 13th September 2008

8.00pm Arnolfini Auditorium South African Poetry Gabeba Baderoon, Rustum Kozain and [...]