Salt Modern Voices — an innovative and expansive new publishing development at Salt

Background

Salt Modern Voices is a brand new series from Salt which aims to deliver short works to new readerships around the world. These works may be interim or more fugitive publications, experiments or side-projects which have a distinctive literary merit, or they may be the initial works of new talents, issued like an EP prior [...]

Charlotte Prince appointed Sales Manager

We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Prince has been appointed as Sales Manager. Charlotte will manage accounts with bookstores (both chains and independents) in the USA and Europe. She will continue to take Salt’s list to our established customers in the trade, as well as forging new relationships with booksellers.

Charlotte will now [...]

Chris Agee shortlisted for the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

The Poetry Society announces the shortlist for the inaugural Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry

The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry seeks to recognise excellence in poetry, highlighting outstanding contributions made by poets to our cultural life.

Jackie Kay for Maw Broon Monologues (performed at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow). [...]

Five for Friday — a JustOneBook Special Offer

Whopping 70% off these five classic titles

No 1. #JustOneBook 70% off! Buy Janet Fisher’s “Brittle Bones” for just £3.90 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844714025
No 2.#JustOneBook 70% off! Buy Allen Fisher’s “Leans” for just £4.50 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844713196
No 3.#JustOneBook 70% off! Buy Ian Gregson’s “How We Met” for just £3.90 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844714803
No 4.#JustOneBook 70% off! Buy David Grubb’s “It Comes With a Bit [...]

Huge 70% discounts on short stories and poems!

Whopping 70% off a fabulous mix of short stories and poems:—

No 1. #JustOneBook 70% off! Buy André Mangeot’s “A Little Javanese” for just £3.90 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844714605
No 2. #JustOneBook 70% off! Buy Manuel Muñoz’s “The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue” for just £2.70 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844714742
No 3. #JustOneBook 70% off! Buy Eleanor Rees’s “Andraste’s Hair” for just £3.90 http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php?prod=9781844713042
No [...]

10 classic titles from the women’s avant-garde: all 50% off RRP!

A JustOneBook special:—

50% off ten classic titles from leading women of the international avant-garde

No 1: Buy Anne Tardos’s “I Am You” for just £6.00 or $8.48 http://bit.ly/cbh0LF
No 2: Buy Susan M. Schultz’s “And Then Something Happened” for just £5.50 or $8.48 http://bit.ly/bsTB0U
No 3: Buy Jennifer Moxley’s “The Sense Record” for just £5.00 or $7.98 http://bit.ly/9TSQkx
No [...]

The Scott Prize Winners are Announced!

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the Scott Prize have been decided. Selecting from the twelve excellent books on the shortlist was an extremely tough process – such variety of writing styles and so many wonderful stories; all the authors deserve recognition. However, after many hours of reading and deliberation, we are [...]

Winners of the 2009 Crashaw Prize

I’m delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Crashaw Prize. After an extremely tough selection process, we’ve chosen poets whose work we found presented significant, promising and vibrant new work — in what has become a very diverse list with each poet operating in an often quite distinct range of forms or writing practice. [...]

Grab some bargains while stocks last

A dozen unmissable offers from Salt as part of our ongoing JustOneBook campaign.

No. 1 Full Colour HB anthology “Poets in View” on offer at 70% off — Buy it now for £3.90! http://bit.ly/JsInF

No. 2 “Sister Morphine” Crime Fiction HB 80% off the RRP! Buy now for just £3.00! http://bit.ly/bzpAVY

No. 3 Buy Richard Marggraf Turley’s collection, [...]

Selling literature: A note to our friends who are retailers in the book trade

I’m grateful to Rob A. Mackenzie for his note on bookselling in Scotland:

http://www.facebook.com/notes/rob-a-mackenzie/selling-literature-in-scotland/310248006515

I want to explore this in more general terms. Salt has a high quality literature list of poetry, short stories and literary fiction, which is complemented by literary criticism, literary companions, biography, gift books and writers’ guides. This year we are launching our [...]