Jasmine Donahaye will be reading at the Hay Festival between 12.30 and 1pm tomorrow (Monday 31 May) in the Culture Cymru tent, in celebration of her long-listing for Wales Book of the Year. Find out more here. If you’re going to the festival, make sure …

“I was going to say something, / and stopped”.  Polish-born Agnieszka Studzinska’s choice, for the epigraph to her interesting and intriguing first collection, of these deceptively straightforward words from Irish poet Thomas Kinsella’s poem ‘Ancestor’ …

This month we’ve been busy concocting a veritable feast of events for your poetical tastebuds. Writers from all over the country are doing readings in a variety of forums in the coming weeks, and we like to think they’ll be the perfect accompaniment to …

Dear Reader, Jen and I fell in love with this book. Charles’ agent sent us some information on the title: we were hooked. Pretty soon we were in touch with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt his US publishers and had the US edition in our hands. Every story had …

Salt launches Modern Voices – Away from the City – Out now for £5.20 Modern Voices is a brand new series from Salt which aims to deliver short works to new readerships around the world. Today we’re launching Lee Smith’s Away from the City, the first bo …