One final letter from Melbourne

Dear Salt reader.

I arrived in Melbourne four months ago. At that time I was confidently looking forward to meeting a lot of Salt writers, and discovering how poetry in Australia was evolving.

Now I have only two weeks left. I feel that my task hasn’t quite taken off.

Unfortunately, the week [...]

Come and cast your vote on Facebook: What’s the most important book we’ve published?

The JustOneBook Readers? Prize

What do you think is the most important book Salt has published?

Deadline 15th September 2009

I asked the question in my status update a day ago, ?What do you think is the most important book Salt has published??

Now, some authors voted for themselves ? [...]

Salt’s Top 20 Bestsellers of All Time

We’ve added a bestsellers panel to our homepage, but we thought you’d be interested in our 20 bestselling books of all time, too.

Bestselling Salt titles of all time David Gaffney , Sawn-Off Tales Tobias Hill , Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow Heid E. Erdrich , The Mother?s Tongue Tania Hershman , The [...]

David Gaffney “Destroy Powerpoint” Competition

Salt author David Gaffney’s show Destroy Powerpoint is at the Edinburgh festival 19 -31 August. Text him on 0771 852 5739 with the title of the first story in his salt book Sawn Off Tales (and your name) and the first four winners will get a free ticket.

Destroy Powerpoint

is at [...]

John Siddique — “Moving Manchester”

The poet John Siddique is the winner of the Moving Manchester creative writing commission for his sequence of poems ?From a Seed to a Flower: five poems from real lives.? The poems were based on interviews with migrants in and around Piccadilly and are accompanied by his own photographic images of [...]