A scintillating review of Samantha York’s debut, THE FORESHORE, in the Glasgow Herald: ‘skilfully weaves together themes of grief, compassion, temptation, loyalty, self-sacrifice and deeply-buried secrets without letting the suspense and escalating sense of dread slacken for a moment.’

A thoughtful review of Vesna Main's new novel, Waiting for a Party, in the current TLS. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Only 255 days till summer!

Folks, we need your book lust now!

My Hummingbird Father is one year old today! Published 15 Sept 2024. I’d like to thank everyone who made it happen, who supported my first novel & especially all the readers & reviewers. Massive thanks @chrisemery.me and Jen @saltpublishing.com and to my agent @joncurzon.bsky.social

Our #JustOneBook appeal is live. If every follower bought just one book today, you’d help us keep publishing the stories and poems you love. Support us now: www.saltpublishing.com 📚 Every book matters. #BookSky #IndiePress #BookCommunity

Grab those books, people! x

10% off selected items in our sale (see the homepage) plus free postage on everything until the end of September. Happy shopping! #BookSale #IndiePublisher #ReadersOfBluesky #BookDeals #BookLovers

You can now buy my fourth collection, Modern Fog (Arc Publications), from the Salt online bookstore – 10% off and free postage, too.

Coming soon – Zoë Apostolides is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live on September 6th.

Coming soon – Zoë Apostolides is a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live on September 6th.

Dark tales for the end of summer… Get 20% off The Cat Bride & The Foreshore with code CWS6ED0C7KCX 📚 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... #HorrorFiction #IndiePublisher #SaltBooks #TheCatBride #TheForeshore

Bluesky Last call — 20% off all Salt titles until midnight tonight. 📚 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS...

Bluesky Last call — 20% off all Salt titles until midnight tonight. 📚 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS...

Dark tales for the end of summer… Get 20% off The Cat Bride & The Foreshore with code CWS6ED0C7KCX 📚 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... #HorrorFiction #IndiePublisher #SaltBooks #TheCatBride #TheForeshore

20% off all Salt books until 31 August! From bold debuts to literary legends – now’s the time to stock up. Code: CWS6ED0C7KCX www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... #IndiePublisher #SaltBooks #BookSale #LitFiction

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✨ 20% off all Salt titles this month! Browse unforgettable fiction & poetry: www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Code: CWS6ED0C7KCX offer ends 31 August

If you do one thing today, read this:

It’s arrived!! The 2026 list. Phew. 😍😍😍

I’ve extended Salt’s summer sale — you can now get 20% off every book we publish until 31 August. Fiction, poetry, short stories: all of it. 👉 www.saltpublishing.com/discount/CWS... Use code: CWS6ED0C7KCX at checkout. A good time to pick up something you’ve had your eye on. 📚 #summerreading

DJ Taylor featured in today's EDP ‘Chatting to the taxi driver on the way home from the station or eavesdropping on the conversations of passersby outside a coffee shop – these seemingly mundane, everyday activities delight and inspire the writer DJ Taylor’ www.edp24.co.uk/news/2537699...

Many thanks to George L Thomas for this.

Brilliant feature by Samantha York in today’s Herald www.heraldscotland.com/news/2538189...

The best book about Scottish history you will read this year. Congratulations to Samantha York on the publication of The Foreshore. 🥳🎉🥂

Happy publication day to Samantha York – The Foreshore is available from all good bookshops today. 🎉🥳🥂😻🚀

You can pre-order my new collection, WONDER, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/3GWJNdA You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP Offer ends 31 July. #WPreorder

Loved this when I saw it at a Carrington exhibition a few months ago.

Top top poetry content in the inaugural issue of Free Bloody Birds, edited by Alan Jenkins and Declan Ryan. Including new poems by @sheribenning.bsky.social, Ange Mlinko and Karen Solie, Mark Ford on Auden's Hardy and @bdralyuk.bsky.social on Peter Reading. freebloodybirds.com

Policy paper published today on the UK government's food strategy for England: www.gov.uk/government/p...

A new poem by Alan Jenkins, one of the finest poets we have, that is both timely and moving: www.freebloodybirds.com/after-london... This is on the website of Free Bloody birds, the new little (print) magazine he edits with Declan Ryan. The first issue is packed with excellent writing.

'this is really lovely and loving poetry, simultaneously demonstrating the joy of inter-generational relationships, time playing its tricks, and, above all, the beauty and tenderness of unconditional familial love.' Matthew Paul reviews ‘Everything is Present’ in The Friday Poem.

Big congratulations to Zoë Apostolides on the publication of day of hew debut, The Homecoming! 🥳🎉🥂

An early review by M. C. Caseley (sincere thanks) of my new collection WONDER is now live on Stride Magazine: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-se...

Twa Tieve’s Nackets from my forthcoming collection, Wonder. #AmWritingPoetry #PoetryOnBluesky #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity Discover more www.saltpublishing.com/products/won...

Twa Tieve’s Nackets from my forthcoming collection, Wonder. #AmWritingPoetry #PoetryOnBluesky #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity Discover more www.saltpublishing.com/products/won...

Here’s Bagging Up from my forthcoming collection, Wonder. #AmWritingPoetry #PoetryOnBluesky #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity www.saltpublishing.com/products/won...

Here’s Bagging Up from my forthcoming collection, Wonder. #AmWritingPoetry #PoetryOnBluesky #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity www.saltpublishing.com/products/won...

Big news from Salty Towers: Tibor Fischer joins the Salt list.

I'm completely over the moon with @rorywaterman.bsky.social’s deeply kind comments on my new collection, Wonder.

Doing it all wrong…

A wee jaunt to Cambridge. Stayed at Jesus, which was very pleasant!

Perhaps it has familiar tropes, but this little ensemble piece is charming, moving and very, very British. Also, Carey Mulligan 😻.

Noted for its ‘grand irony and playful humour, with episodes of tenderness and charm’, Hill’s poetry journeyed from London to Japan and back again, over four remarkable collections. The new prize has been established by The Poetry Society with the support of Hill’s family. Hill was a close (...)

The Poetry Society is delighted to announce a brand new literary award – the Tobias Hill Poetry Prize. This new competition honours Tobias Hill, a London-born poet and novelist who died at the age of 53 in August 2023. (...)

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Only a couple of spots left on Alexandra's online workshop this Monday evening! Poetry's Makeshift Shelter: Contemporary Haiku Monday 16 June, 7pm buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @corrintachibana.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com