Tania Hershman in LA Times' Book Blog

‘Jacket Copy’ , the book blog of the LA Times, has picked up on Tania Hershman’s Cyclone tour of her short story collection, The White Road & Other Stories :

“Author Tania Hershman stopped by Eco-Libris on the blog tour for her collection, ‘The White Road and Other Stories.’ A British-born former [...]

2008 Calvino Prize

Many congratulations to Carys Davies who was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2008 Calvino Prize for stories from her Salt collection Some New Ambush .

Irish Times — Faces to Watch in 2009

Forthcoming Salt short story author, Nuala N? Chonch?ir has been chosen by the Irish Times as one of the faces to watch in 2009. Nuala’s collection, Nude, is being published in October and she is the only writer to appear in the line-up selected by the Irish Times for their article, which will appear [...]

The Winners of the Crashaw Prize will be announced on December 19th

Friday December 19 2008.tags: [...]

Elizabeth Baines: “Around the Edges of the World” Tour

Elizabeth Baines: Balancing on the Edge of the World

Around the Edges of the World

These are stories about power: children without it and adults vying to get or keep it. A small boy struggles with his parents’ divorce, a doctor fails to understand the limits of his medical power, a wronged [...]

Drew Gummerson’s Blog

Drew Gummerson

Drew Gummerson is a writer. In 2002 his first novel, The Lodger, was published and was a finalist in the Lambda Awards. His latest novel, Me and Mickie James was published by Jonathan Cape in July 2008. He works for the police.

Drew Gummerson writes a weekly blog about writing and anything [...]

New Scientist Christmas Books Special 2008

The White Road and Other Stories by Tania Hershman Published by: Salt Publishing Price: ?8.99/$16.95 ISBN: 9781844714759

The title story in this book is everything fiction should be: inspiring, moving, comical, provocative and heartbreaking ? and all that in just seven and a half pages. The rest of the stories [...]

A Ghost of a Chance: Desperate for Words Reviews Geraldine Monk’s New Book of Sonnets

Ghost & Other Sonnets

Monk?s sonnets are probably at the more traditional end of the scale formally. They?re all 14 lines, 12 and 2. None really end-rhyme but they?re replete with internal musics, crossings and recrossings over the little baby?s-cot-sized spaces. Traditional in look maybe, but they?re still amazingly challenging and [...]

The Year's Best Poetry Collections in The Independent

Bill Greenwell chooses Sandra Tappenden for the year’s best poetry collections.

Poetry: Spelling out the magic of the mundane

By Bill Greenwell Friday, 28 November 2008

The best poems strike up conversations. Try Sandra Tappenden’s Speed (Salt, ?12.99). Her drollery persists, testing ideas, strolling along fantastic tangents: “Etiquette is a [...]

Todd Swift’s Eyewear

Todd Swift

Todd Swift is a Core Tutor with The Poetry School, and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kingston University. His recent book of critical essays on Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts, co-edited with Jason Camlot, was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. (See Jacket Magazine.) He is the editor of many international [...]