Summer Reading Dilemma?

If you’re wondering what reading to pack for your summer getaway, perhaps the latest review of David Roses’s Vault will help you decide. ‘A confident, ambitious, and thoughtful debut’ writes Christopher Burns in the Warwick Review.

Vault is David Rose’s first novel although he has been writing and placing stories in literary magazines for [...]

David Gaffney’s book launch, Manchester

If you’re in the Manchester area on Wednesday, 26th January, make your way to the Castle Hotel at 7.30 and enjoy an evening of poetry, prose, good beer and the launch of David Gaffney’s dazzling new collection of short and very short stories, The Half-Life of Songs. The event is hosted by Bad Language, [...]

Three New Salt Modern Voices Books

Today sees the publication of four new Salt Modern Voices pamphlets:

Erec & Enide by Amy De’Ath

Taking its title from Chretien De Troyes’ twelfth-century Arthurian romance, Erec & Enide moves through a vibrant, rich and playful mix of underhand lyric. A deceptive and light-footed vulnerability unexpectedly folds in on itself to throw up [...]

Finding ‘Flatlands’: Victor Tapner writes of his journey through prehistory

Walking along a woodland track one Sunday afternoon to look at some ancient earthworks typical of many sprinkled around the English countryside, I had little idea that I was embarking on a poetry project that would take the best part of seven years – more if you count late stragglers.

A cycle of poems [...]

Ronnie McGrath on Data Trace being grown up poetry

Ronnie McGrath on

Data Trace

“This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only [...]

International wind at Salt

We are two international MA Publishing students from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge currently working at Salt as publishing assistants.

Came just at the right time to see the Christmas business. Lots of promotions to do, people to contact, books to mail out, blog entries to compose. It is great fun to put into [...]

Short Stories — the Future’s Bright?

This year’s Frank O’Connor and Small Wonder festivals have been and gone, the UK’s first National Short Story Week is around the corner, and at Salt we’re in the throes of putting to press our autumn collections of short fiction, including the winners of the inaugural Scott Prize. For a genre that people often [...]

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 [...]

Looking Back – 10 Years of Salt: Why we Needed an Office

I was looking through my old MySpace Blog , when I came across a slideshow I made back in April 2008. We were in the process of negotiating the lease on our office and I was reaching the end of my tether. Salt had been based in a room stuck at the back of [...]

Salt moves to London

Salt moves offices

We?ve moved offices to London.

Our new address is

Salt Publishing Ltd Fourth floor 2 Tavistock Place Bloomsbury LONDON WC1H 9RA