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Salt’s new Proxima imprint launches tonight: 30 September, at Fantasycon 2011 with two print titles and two new Kindle eBooks.

Head over to the official website for FantasyCon 2011 now. This year FantasyCon goes to the seaside in the historic Victorian city of Brighton — filled with restaurants, wine bars and clubs, as [...]

Victor Tapner is shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize

THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE PRIZE FOR POETRY

Supported by Hewlett Packard Ireland

SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

The judges are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry this year supported by Hewlett Packard Ireland.

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In the wake of the Arts Council of England’s opaque and strategically incoherent funding cuts we’ve had the Poetry Book Society’s campaign to stave off collapse (and its further, quieter, rejection from Grants for the Arts), the Poetry Society’s shocking £24,000 waste of public money on legal costs in its incompetent and unsuccessful [...]

Victor Tapner’s book Flatlands is one of three collections shortlisted in the poetry category of the EDP-Jarrold East Anglian Book Awards. The other contenders are The Spinney by Philip Michael Goodman (Geo. R Reeve) and Another Use of Canvas by Angus Sinclair (Gatehouse Press).

The annual awards, run by the Eastern Daily Press, [...]

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FICTION

 Wena Poon, Alex y Robert SHORT STORIES

Pinckney Benedict, Miracle Boy [...]

Wigtown Book Festival 2011

Any good festival gives inspiration.  But this year we’re doing more than that: we offer perspiration.  Bookish types are meant to shun sporting activity.  They shrivel in sunlight.  Or so the stereotype goes.  To disprove it, 2011′s programme features a series of outdoor pursuits in the beautiful Dumfries [...]

The Michael Murphy Memorial Prize: First Award

On National Poetry Day 2010 the English Association announced the inauguration of a new biennial prize of £500 for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English published in Britain or Ireland – in the first instance between January 2008 and June 2011. The Prize was established [...]

Poetry Festival 23-25 September 2011

Venue: Town Hall, King’s Lynn (not as previously, Thoresby College)

Full details to follow.

For a location map, click here.

Each session lasts around 90 minutes, in two halves. During the interval, you can enjoy some refreshments while you browse the bookstall of works by the Festival’s authors - all [...]

“Every so often a poetry collection comes along which is truly breath-taking, having read and re-read Orchids many times now I can safely say that it is the product of a remarkable talent, in fact we seem to be witnessing one remarkable talent after another appear amongst new, young poets. Orchids is [...]