http://www.saltpublishing.com/news.xml Publishing news from Salt, the independent literary press Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:09:18 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=446 As 2008 drew to a close, hits to the Salt Publishing Web site reached 15.1 million, with over 600 thousand visitors downloading nearly 2.2 million pages. Plans to develop the site further include new magazines, more virtual book tours and a range of new electronic products. Thu, 1 Jan 2009 08:14:18 GMT http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/dec/30/harold-pinter-poetry As we remember Harold Pinter in the week after his death, his poetry has been largely overlooked. It's perhaps seen as a secondary impulse – a common enough argument when poets discuss playwrights taking a vacation in their art. But Pinter's poetry carries with it the authenticity and mystery which permeate his plays. Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:21:18 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/prizes/poetry/crashawprize.php The winners of the 2008 Crashaw Prize are Tom Chivers, Abi Curtis, Jamey Dunham, Ian Pindar and Jared Stanley. Reading the hundreds of manuscripts submitted during the year was, perhaps a little unusually, a pleasure, sometimes a surprise, and it is heartening to see so much new writing focused on those tender readerly concerns of books being entertaining, readable, pleasurable, evocative, imaginative and well-constructed. This year's winners manage to balance all these impulses with great confidence and skill. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:20:06 GMT http://www.meetatthegate.com/component/option,com_article/article_id,308/ No one is denying that the publishing business is extremely tough right now. In the best of times, magazine publishing is also pretty challenging, what with the cycle of more content equals more advertising equals more pages equals more cost equals more content equals more advertising ad infinitum. So it makes perfect sense, in our globally-connected world, to publish a literary magazine online - just as Salt Publishing has done with their Horizon Review. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:14:25 GMT http://saltpublishing.com/cyclone/ An internal shortlist of fifteen titles has been drawn up as part of the Crashaw Prize. “We had a terrific response to the prize, and the standard of submissions was exceptionally high,” said Chris Hamilton-Emery. “After a very tough session, we’ve whittled the potential winners down to fifteen books; now we have to decide how many winners there will be, but one thing we do know, is that two books are already selected.” The announcement will be made on Friday December 19 2008. Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:54:37 GMT http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026862.000-review-ithe-white-road-and-other-storiesi-by-tania-hershman.html The title story in this book is everything fiction should be: inspiring, moving, comical, provocative and heartbreaking - and all that in just seven and a half pages. Hershman's economy with words cloaks her subtlety and power, though: a second reading uncovers hidden moments in each story. Inspired by scientific progress and science journalism, including articles in New Scientist, and driven by an author dripping with talent, this is as good as modern reading gets. Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:25:51 GMT http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article5250798.ece The sequence of poems in Richard Berengarten's The Manager (Salt Modern Poets, £14.99) takes the wasteland of our once ebullient capitalist society as a focus. As the title suggests, he is writing about working offices; but he also writes well about the ambiguities of sexual passion. Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:51:35 GMT http://tinyurl.com/6pgsgo The CBA runs the Commonwealth Short Story Competition every year to encourage new writing in the Commonwealth and to increase the understanding between and appreciation of different Commonwealth cultures. The winning stories are widely broadcast on radio round the Commonwealth. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:31:43 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=387 Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Torques: Drafts 58-76 has been longlisted for the £50,000 2009 Warwick Prize for Writing. Judge China Mièville said: “The style, form, genre and content of the works on the list is incredibly varied; the quality is anything but.” He added: “Getting from this longlist to a shortlist, let alone a winner, will demand exactly the kind of open-minded and argumentative reading the prize is designed for, and, we hope, start many conversations about literature.” Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:39:12 GMT http://www.saltpublishing.com/blogs/confidential.php?itemid=384 The winners of the 2008 Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, in association with the Irish Writers’ Centre, have been announced. At a gala awards ceremony last night (10 November) in Dublin’s Hugh Lane Gallery, Mr Martin Naughton, Glen Dimplex Group Chairman, presented the awards to each of the five category winners. Will Stone won the 2008 Glen Dimplex Poetry Award. Gerard Smyth and Matthew Sweeney praised the importance and depth of Stone's collection. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:09:23 GMT http://www.arvonfoundation.org/p176.html In the awards ceremony on 31st October 2008, Andrew Motion thanked everybody who took part in the 14th Arvon International Poetry Competition and said that everybody's poem had brought value to the process. Copies of the exclusive Arvon Moleskine Competition Anthology Notebook are available. Second Prize - Giles Goodland with “Serpent”. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:06:20 GMT