New Autumn Titles Arrive from Salt!

Great new titles arrive from the printer — place your orders now with Amazon and get them as soon as the distributor releases copies!

Elizabeth Baines The Birth Machine ISBN 9781907773020 Buy from Amazon   Susan Bradley Smith Supermodernprayerbook ISBN 9781844714490 Buy from Amazon   Tim Dooley Imagined Rooms ISBN 9781844717705 Buy [...]

Interview with Victor Tapner in interview with Sheenagh Pugh

This interview first appeared on Sheenagh Pugh’s blog: Good God! There’s Writing on Both Sides of that Paper!

Victor Tapner lives in Essex and is a freelance writer, having previously worked as a journalist on the Financial Times. He has published poems in many magazines and anthologies, and had success in several competitions [...]

Tony Williams shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

From a record 95 entries, the shortlist for the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize – one of the most influential and established poetry prizes in the UK – highlights six distinctive new voices as the ‘ones-to-watch’ amongst the next generation of UK poets. The Poetry Trust announced the shortlist today:

Christian Campbell Running [...]

David Briggs interviews and addresses all aspects of himself in Stride Magazine

Deflated Ego 7: David Briggs on David Briggs

Id: The Method Men was published in May 2010. How’s that working out for you?

Briggs: Okay, I guess. The launch readings have gone well. I’ve sold a goodly number of copies at readings. And it’s been shortlisted for the London Fringe New Poetry Award. [...]

Launch of National Short Story Week

Last night I went along to the launch of the UK’s first National Short Story Week, which was held in the Charles Dickens Museum in London. I arrived to find the museum packed with people from all areas of the short story world: writers, booksellers, publishers, voice artists, and teachers of creative writing, [...]

Siân Hughes winning the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Prize 2010

Pictured (from left): Sian Hughes, winner of the first Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Best First Collection, with Rosemary Kelly and Damian Smyth from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Sian received her award at a special reception held at the Arts Council last night to mark the opening of the British and [...]

Queen’s University Press Release: Siân Hughes Wins Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

Winner of Seamus Heaney Prize for First Collection announced

Poet Sian Hughes has been announced as the inaugural winner of the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a Best First Collection.

Created by the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s to help publicise new poetry, Sian received her £1,000 prize at a special reception [...]

Siân Hughes wins the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

Heaney poetry award winner announced

The winner of the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry was announced in Queen’s University Belfast last night.

Siân Hughes won the award for The Missing and was the recipient of the £1,000 prize. The announcement was made at a special reception hosted by the Arts [...]

Win a Signed Copy of The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street

Salt author Tony Williams is running a competition to win a signed copy of his latest collection The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street.

Check out his blog for more details: http://aye-lass.blogspot.com/2010/09/competition-win-copy-of-my-book.html

A winner will be drawn from a hat on Friday 17th September 2010. Good [...]

Three Salt poets shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

Three of our poets have only a week to wait until the winner of the inaugural Seamus Heaney Centre Prize is announced. Anne Berkeley, Andrew Philip and Siân Hughes form three of the five shortlisted authors, an outstanding endorsement of the quality of Salt’s debut collections published last year.

The winner will [...]