The Scott Prize Winners are Announced!

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Scott Prize have been decided. Selecting from the twelve excellent books on the shortlist was an extremely tough process – such variety of writing styles and so many wonderful stories; all the authors deserve recognition. However, after many hours of reading and deliberation, we are [...]

Winners of the 2009 Crashaw Prize

I’m delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Crashaw Prize. After an extremely tough selection process, we’ve chosen poets whose work we found presented significant, promising and vibrant new work — in what has become a very diverse list with each poet operating in an often quite distinct range of forms or writing practice. [...]

Grab some bargains while stocks last

A dozen unmissable offers from Salt as part of our ongoing JustOneBook campaign.

No. 1 Full Colour HB anthology “Poets in View” on offer at 70% off — Buy it now for £3.90! http://bit.ly/JsInF

No. 2 “Sister Morphine” Crime Fiction HB 80% off the RRP! Buy now for just £3.00! http://bit.ly/bzpAVY

No. 3 Buy Richard Marggraf Turley’s collection, [...]

Selling literature: A note to our friends who are retailers in the book trade

I’m grateful to Rob A. Mackenzie for his note on bookselling in Scotland:

http://www.facebook.com/notes/rob-a-mackenzie/selling-literature-in-scotland/310248006515

I want to explore this in more general terms. Salt has a high quality literature list of poetry, short stories and literary fiction, which is complemented by literary criticism, literary companions, biography, gift books and writers’ guides. This year we are launching our [...]

Introducing Salt eBooks

Two years in development, with over ten years of database programming to support it, we have just launched our in-house eContent platform — an editing suit which drives print typesetting, ONIX bibliographic feeds (including structured tables of content) and … automatic eBook creation, based on the epub format.

Poet in Residence 2010 - 2011: The Wordsworth Trust

Poet in Residence 2010 – 2011
The Wordsworth Trust

The Wordsworth Trust is seeking a new Poet in Residence, to run for 9 months from July 2010 to end March 2011.
(The residency may be extended to a year pending confirmation of further funding from Arts Council England.)

The Wordsworth Trust was founded in 1891 to maintain Dove Cottage, [...]

Two Salt authors nominated as Shortlists are Announced for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

With nominations up by almost 100 this year, the shortlists for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now hot off the press. Salt authors Pam Brown and Marion May Campbell have both been nominated.

The winners will be announced at 4pm on Sunday February 28 (the first day of Adelaide Writers’ Week) in a [...]

Just One Book 2010

Help Salt survive and thrive

Last year we launched a campaign to save us from ruin — you saved us. This year we’re launching a campaign to help us survive and thrive. This year, 2010, is our double anniversary: ten years of publishing and twenty years of Salt Magazine. To continue what we do we need [...]

Chrissie Gittins Reading at Lauderdale House

Chrissie Gittins will be reading at The Lauderdale House on  Thursday, 11th February 2010, 8-10pm.
Tickets cost  £5 (£3 concessions)

Lauderdale House
Highgate Hill,
Waterlow Park,
London N6 5HG

Tel 020 8348 8716

Chrissie Gittins’ books I’ll Dress One Night As You and Family Connections are both available to buy from our online  store now with 20% off.

Chris Emery online

Keep up with Chris Emery’s writing at his new Web site:

http://chrishamiltonemery.com/