Happiness comes in the shape of a square

Welcome to today’s news round up.

It has been a hectic and exhilarating day and, no surprise, one filled with books. Loads of stunning, beautiful books. And the title of the moment is square in shape.

When the bang of the door was followed by heavy clumps echoing up the office stairs, I [...]

Philip Wells at the Royal Albert Hall

Salt author Philip Wells (the Firepoet) performed at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night, as part of the Born Free Foundation’s Wild and Live event.

An audience of over 4,000 people watched the concert, that included a huge list of well-known names, such as Bryan Adams, Rolf Harris, and even Peter Andre.

Our [...]

Review of the NAWE Conference and the launch of Short Circuit

There is a lovely review of the National Association of Writers in Education conference, including the launch of Short Circuit, on the NAWE website. Our thanks to NAWE for so generously hosting this launch and for all their support and encouragement with the book. Paul Munden, Director of NAWE, says of Short Circuit: “How [...]

John Siddique's Recital - an almanac for Britain

You’ve Got to Get in to Get Out

The world will impinge into your need for silence, into your prayers. In the hardest seconds of your life, your neighbours will be drunk, booming hip-hop through thin inconvenient walls.

At the lighting of your candles, in the moment you need to focus — the [...]

Free shipping on all UK orders till Christmas

Free UK shipping on ALL Salt titles purchased from our store until Christmas! Go ahead and treat yourself to some great new books!

http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/index.php

Are you a winner? Check out the comments on our competitions

Entering our competitions? Remember to check back on the comments to the competition after the deadline to see if you’ve won!

Winners of the Manuel Muñoz The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue competition are: Robert Burdock, Steve Dempsey, Jay Merill and Stephen Pain.

Winners of our Eleanor Rees Eliza and the Bear competition [...]

Glasgow reading — two salty dogs ... plus one other pedigree chum

Reading at

St Mungo’s Mirrorball

Thursday, 12th November – 7.00pm 167 Renfrew Street (right across the road from the front steps of Glasgow School of Art) Wine provided

Featuring (alphabetically) Alexander Hutchison, Tom Pow and Alan Riach

Alexander Hutchison published Scales Dog : New and selected poems from Salt in 2007. This [...]

Salt Seven Day Savers #3

Expires 16th November 2009

Our third Seven Day Savers list is full of tempting offers.

They’re only available for the next seven days, so order now to get that extra feeling of Salt satisfaction.

The offers are available only from our UK shop. But we’ll deliver to you anywhere in the world.

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Competition time! Win a copy of Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by Vanessa Gebbie

We’ve five free copies of Vanessa Gebbie’s new textbook Short Circuit to give away.

Short Circuit is the first textbook written by prize-winning writers for students and more experienced practitioners of the short story. The 288 page guide brings together twenty-four specially-commissioned essays from well-published short story writers who are also prize winners of [...]

Competition time! Win a copy of Eleanor Rees’s new collection “Eliza and the Bear”

We’ve five free copies of Eleanor Rees’s new poetry collection Eliza and the Bear to give away.

Eleanor Rees’s first collection, Andraste’s Hair was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the 2007 Forward Prizes and for the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. In her second full-length collection she continues to play the role of [...]