Founded by Chris Hamilton-Emery, John Kinsella and Clive Newman – who left the partnership in 2002 – Salt publishes poetry, short-story collections, literary criticism and how-to books such as Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story. It’s …

We were looking at her poem ‘Bear-Awareness and Self-Defence Classes’ (subtitled ‘Or Fathers and Husbands’). Like many of Siân’s poems it is short and made of words and sentences an eight-year old could read. But while its subject matter is about what …

Growing up with Salt Publishing. I really don’t know where to begin. . . . It’s . . . Fun? Saying that Salt doesn’t matter to me would be a big lie because it does mean a lot. It means a lot of things. It means that I can learn a lot about publishing l …

IN ASSOCIATION WITH FOR FOLK’S SAKE. Time: 28 July · 19:30 – 23:30 Location: The Old Queen’s Head (N1 8LN) 44 Essex Road London, United Kingdom BBC Radio 2 Folk Club of the Year 2010, The Magpie’s Nest, has very kindly invited us down to their HQ for a …

I’ll never forget this day. It was late winter, 2004 (6 years ago, how can that be?!) and I was sitting at my desk in the cramped, hot and chaotic space that was the Salt office, tucked away at the back of the house, when the phone rang. It was the BBC …