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 [...]

#ScottPrize Winners in Discussion – Part 3

Here’s the final part of the Scott Prize winners discussing the short story.  To pick things up you can find the first two parts in the side bar to the right.

Patrick Holland Tom, you’ve cut to the very heart of the matter with your singing/hard-working sentence question. The best justification I can [...]

#ScottPrize Winners in Discussion – Part 2

Here’s the second part of the Scott Prize winners’ discussion of the short story. If you missed Part 1 or want to pick up the thread, click here.

Tom Vowler As for inspiration, yes I am often drawn to disturbed narrators, stories peopled by desperate characters who barely manage to conceal this beneath [...]

#ScottPrize Winners in Discussion – Part 1

Following the announcement of this year’s Scott Prize shortlist, last year’s winners got together for a discussion on the short story and what it means to them. Posted in 3 parts, here’s Part 1.

Patrick Holland When, like me, you are aware of the prejudices facing story collections – I say ‘aware’ rather [...]

The Scott Prize Shortlist is Announced

With apologies for the delay and thanks to everyone who submitted and has waited so patiently, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for 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 [...]

The Shortlist for the Crashaw Prize 2010

This year the Crashaw Prize — the UK’s only international prize for full length collections of poetry — received over eighty entries from four continents. The writers span not merely the English-speaking world, but also the striking diversity of contemporary poetry written in our extravagant tongue. It would be impudent to argue [...]

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 [...]

The Edge Hill Prize, Phoenix Artist Club and Salt Launch

Yesterday I had such a brilliant day in London. It felt like I’d been trapped in the office for an age, so it was so good to get on the train and head to the big city. It was the Edge Hill Short Story awards, which were being held at Blackwells on Charing Cross [...]

New poets shortlist for 2010 £2,500 London New Poetry Award

London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award 2010

Shortlist for London New Poetry Award organised by London Festival Fringe 2010 in conjunction with Cegin Productions and Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour and judged by Tamar Yoseloff, Daljit Nagra and Adam O’Riordan, winner to be announced at Pizza Express Jazz Club Soho and £2,500 Award [...]

Two Salt authors nominated as Shortlists are Announced for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

With nominations up by almost 100 this year, the shortlists for the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are now hot off the press. Salt authors Pam Brown and Marion May Campbell have both been nominated.

The winners will be announced at 4pm on Sunday February 28 (the first day of Adelaide Writers’ Week) [...]