Coming soon … “Step by Step Seminars” from Salt

Step by Step Seminars Building Profile on the Web

with Chris Hamilton-Emery

20th October 2010 LONDON Venue to be confirmed Choice of morning or afternoon course limited to 16 delegates per session

Overview

One of literary publishing’s most established editors — Salt’s Chris Hamilton-Emery — gives aspiring and experienced writers an unparalleled insight [...]

On choosing

“What really worries me, most of all, is, it’s not writers, it’s readers, because this whole crap about ‘It’s Gutenberg.’ You know, the thing is, that Gutenberg put books on the shelves, the digital revolution is gonna take books off the shelves. So how’re you gonna find them, if you don’t know what [...]

Alex y Robert arrives from the printers

I’ve just opened a heavily-taped parcel of Wena Poon’s novel, Alex y Robert. A book that marks some new developments at Salt — our first book to be distributed by Turnaround in the UK, our first book to be printed at CPI Cox & Wyman, our first mass-market trade paperback and our first [...]

Andrew Taylor shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards

Andrew Taylor‘s The Unhaunting has been shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Awards.

The short list for the 2008 and 2009 Western Australian Premier’s book awards have been announced by Culture and the Arts Minister John Day.

Mr Day said record entries had been submitted following the announcement earlier this year of [...]

Maria Takolander shortlisted for the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Awards

Maria Takolander has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Award in the 2010 Queensland Premier’s Awards.

Poetry Collection – Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Award Peter Boyle for Apocrypha Vagabond Press Jennifer Maiden for Pirate Rain Giramondo Publishing Company Les Murray for Taller When Prone Black Inc. Maria Takolander for Ghostly Subjects [...]

New and forthcoming titles: August

The next three books in our Children’s Poetry Library series:

visit the Salt Kids website to find out more

The New Generation by Angela Topping

Vampires, witches, fairies, wizards and mermaids meet them all here in Angela Topping’s fantastic children’s poems.

Cuckoo Rock by Phil Bowen – Available soon

Cuckoo Rock creates [...]

The fifteenth reprinting of Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories

Every now and again, a book comes along for a publisher which captures the popular imagination and becomes a bestseller. Today we sent Tania Hershman’s The White Road and Other Stories off to press for its fifteenth reprinting in two years. The book remains one of Salt’s bestselling titles and, by any measure, [...]

Aaron Fagan’s Echo Train to appear on Poetry Daily, August 28th

Aaron Fagan’s Echo Train and “Dramatis Personae” to appear on Poetry Daily Saturday, August 28, 2010.

An Interview with Aaron Fagan

“Echo Train reverberates with remnants of everything from souvenir T-shirts to ancient hymns while emerging into the jagged sound of its own present moment.” — Geoffrey O’Brien

We caught up with Aaron Fagan to ask him a few questions about what influenced the poems in his latest collection.

1) What [...]

Alex y Robert: Countdown’s On

Excitement is mounting in the Salt Office. Wena Poon’s novel Alex y Robert is, as I type, being printed here, at the Cox & Wyman presses in Reading: From there it will be going to the warehouse of our distributor, Turnaround, in London, who will send it out to a shop near you from [...]