New poets shortlist for 2010 £2,500 London New Poetry Award

London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award 2010

Shortlist for London New Poetry Award organised by London Festival Fringe 2010 in conjunction with Cegin Productions and Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour and judged by Tamar Yoseloff, Daljit Nagra and Adam O’Riordan, winner to be announced at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho and £2,500 Award presented at Waldorf London [...]

Tuesday’s batch of four covers — courtesy of The Cover Factory

It has been another stiflingly hot day in the office! But here are a further four covers from The Cover Factory. I am a machine.

As ever, you can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of things on Flickr.

You can also see more of [...]

Tania Hershman on Radio 4′s Afternoon Reading THIS WEEK

Starting today, BBC Radio 4  are broadcasting a whole week of Tania Hershman’s flash stories on the Afternoon Reading. Because the stories are so short, there will be 5 or 6 per day in the 15-minute slot which has uptil now only ever broadcast a single story. Click here for the Afternoon Reading link.

So: 16 stories [...]

Four more covers from The Cover Factory

Monday morning and up early again and in to the office to work on four more covers for the year ahead. Moving on to the fiction titles today.

As ever, you can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of things on Flickr.

You can [...]

Sunday’s roasting hot, but four more covers appear from The Cover Factory

Up early and in the office to work on four more covers for the year ahead. Another Crashaw prize winner among them.

You can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz. You can also keep track of things on Flickr.

You can also see more of The Cover Factory’s progress [...]

Latest cover designs from The Cover Factory

Several days without sleep working on these new covers. Slowly getting to grips with InDesign. Spending a fortune on images. Hours of Photoshopping. Dreaming in images. Living in images …

You can still follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag #coverdesignblitz.

You can also see more of The Cover Factory’s progress on the [...]

Announcing the #BigSaltPrize to celebrate our 10th and 20th anniversary

As you know, Salt Magazine is twenty years old this year, and Salt’s publishing business is now ten years old. We’ve decided to put together a whopping prize to celebrate, and entering it means you will directly help Salt to continue to thrive during the recession.

How do I enter?

Get your summer reading sorted with great new [...]

The Cover Factory limbers up for a forward challenge

We’ve got over 50 covers to design in the next four weeks, all part of a concerted move to reposition Salt as a trade publisher and to refocus our efforts to work with the best bookstores in the UK.

We’ve begun work and you can follow progress on Twitter, simply keep your eye on the hash tag [...]

#SaltReadingGroup Elizabeth Baines Coming to a Twitter page near you!

The Salt Reading Group commences in just a week from today. On Wednesday the 30th June we’ll be welcoming all of you to discuss Elizabeth Baines’  Too Many Magpies with each other.

But how do you join in? And what is twitter???

Twitter is a great medium for literary minds to mash. Anybody can join twitter, all you [...]

Award success for three Salt authors

We are delighted to announce that Carys Davies has won the Olive Cook Short Story Award for her story ‘The Quiet’ at the Society of Authors’ 2010 Awards. But the good news doesn’t end there. Susannah Rickards (below), whose Scott Prize winning collection of short stories Hot Kitchen Snow is due to [...]