The Method shortlisted for Edge Hill Award

Congratulations to Tom Vowler, whose short story collection, The Method and Other Stories, has just been shortlisted for the prestigious Edge Hill Prize.

Ailsa Cox, Reader in Creative Writing and English at Edge Hill University, said: “We’re delighted by the sheer quality and diversity of the shortlist. Some of these names [...]

The 2011 Scott Prize Winners are Announced

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2011 Scott Prize for debut collections of short stories. This prize forms part of Salt’s commitment to the short story and to our mission to discover and nurture new talent from around the English-speaking world.

From almost 60 entries and a shortlist of 10, [...]

#TenFactsAbout — David Rose

David Rose

 

Likes Marmite but not ginger. Was three-times winner of the Slough Arts Festival Trophy. (Slough Arts Festival is not an oxymoron.) Fastest time for a 10-mile time trial: 30 min. 28 secs. Has read The Magic Mountain three times, The Man Without Qualities twice, Proust never. Most frightening phrase [...]

The winners of the 2010 Crashaw Prize

Press Release 9th May 2011

The winners of the 2010 Crashaw Prize

(Salt, London) the three winners of this year’s Crashaw Prize are:

Vesna Goldsworthy The Angel of Salonika (UK/Serbia) Rebecca Lehmann Between the Crackups (USA) Catherine Theis The Fraud of Good Sleep (USA)

Now in its third year, this is the [...]

#TheDailyPoem “After the Elements” by Judith Bishop

After the Elements

You and I, we are too far

from fire now: the chimney-pots

have driven out their smoke,

and stood alert for its return,

but flames are rare, or else

they are disaster; our rooms in brick and board

have insulated from [...]

#TheDailyPoem “From the Air” by John Wilkinson

View From the Air

Syllabled elegance makes a goose of itself

on purpose, so it appears at table

crowned in still-bright but obsolete

circuit boards:

              an ill-fitting

              vocal swirls

              out of punctuated

belches & compressed farts:

must implementation lie subordinate so

Sophie Mayer’s “The Private Parts of Girls” arrives — just in time for her tour with John McCullough!

Sophie Mayer’s wonderful The Private Parts of Girls arrives in the Salt offices, just as we’re closing them! Looks fantastic. Can’t wait to get stuck in to it.

#HeadToHead — Salt’s directors take a break to introduce a new blog feature

Chris and Jen Hamilton-Emery launch a new feature on the Salt Blog.

CHE: So Hon, we’re entering a new chapter in the Salt house and we’ll be working from home again. Soon we won’t need to get dressed till noon when doing the day job, this was a real staff benefit back [...]

#TheDailyPoem “Options UK” by Sandra Tappenden

Options UK

or move somewhere with a high unemployment rate say 10% and buy to let cash with a mortgage on your own house or sell up move on to a small market town with no market or sell up start a business a café or shop or sell up trade [...]

#TenFactsAbout — John McCullough

John McCullough

 

I have a 1st Dan black belt in karate and used to teach it in Watford. As a teenager, my whole life was tournament freefighting, going to gradings and scrubbing my white gi clean. (And then I discovered beer — no roundhouse kicks since 1997 …). I’m a [...]