Sarah Salway’s Writing Journal

Sarah Salway

Sarah is a novelist, short story writer and creative writing tutor. Author of Something Beginning With (ABCs of Love in the US), Tell Me Everything (both published by Bloomsbury in the UK and Ballantine in the US) and a collection of short stories, Leading the Dance (bluechrome). She also is the co-author, with [...]

Caroline Smailes’ “In Search of Adam” Blog

Caroline Smailes

Caroline Smailes is a writer. In 2007 her first novel, In Search of Adam, was published by The Friday Project (an imprint of HarperCollins). Her latest novel, Black Boxes was published in September 2008. As well as writing, Caroline runs the BubbleCow Literary Consultancy, where she mentors new writers and edits manuscripts.

Caroline’s [...]

My homage to Pinter's poetry

My thoughts on Pinter’s poetry:

As we remember Harold Pinter in the week after his death, his poetry has been largely overlooked. It’s perhaps seen as a secondary impulse ? a common enough argument when poets [...]

Morning Star's Classics in the Making: The Top Poets of 2008

ANDY CROFT asked 18 leading British poets to name their favourite poetry books of this year.

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The Scent of Cinnamon makes Scott Pack's Top Ten Books of the Year

9. Charles Lambert -
The Scent of Cinnamon
. A short story collection almost always ends up in my top ten but it took me till the end of the year to find [...]

Sadly Ailbhe Darcy has had to withdraw from the winners

The Crashaw Prize Blog is launched

The Crashaw Prize blog has been launched and news is now out of the 2008 winners.

Click on the logo to go to the latest news:

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Alison Flood covers the Crashaw Prize in The Guardian

Crashaw prize winners announced

Alison Flood

guardian.co.uk, Friday 19 December 2008 17.18 GMT

Six debut poets are to have their first collections of poetry published around the world after winning the inaugural Crashaw prize, due to be awarded annually by the independent poetry press Salt Publishing.
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Tom Chivers reflects on winning the Crashaw Prize

I?ve been writing since I was 16 (I was going to say ?seriously? but ?with intent? is a better phrase). I am now 25, and Christmas has come early in the form of The Crashaw Prize and Salt Publishing. I am a joint winner, which means that my first full collection of poetry will be [...]

The winners of the 2008 Crashaw Prize

Tom Chivers How to Build a City (UK)
Abi Curtis Unexpected Weather (UK)
Jamey Dunham The Bible of Lost Pets (USA)
Jared Stanley Book Made of Forest (USA)

Judge’s comments:

This year marks the inauguration of The Crashaw Prize, an important new venture for Salt, as we continue to discover and nurture new talent from around the English-speaking world. The [...]