prizes
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Wow! There’s been some truly amazing news for my hard-working, tireless, dedicated publishers, Chris and Jen Hamilton-Emery: one of Salt’s novels has been longlisted for the Booker prize! The book in question is Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse, which is out next month. Chris’s Facebook and Twitter feeds have been full of the frenzy (print runs, rights
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Goodness, it’s been a ghost town in this here corner of the blogosphere lately, hasn’t it? Things have been rather exhausting over the past wee while, hence the radio silence. I’m afraid I won’t manage to give you a report on everything past, but I am back to give you a bit more news. Those
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Just read on Todd Swift’s Eyewear blog that James McGonigal won the Michael Marks pamphlet award for his new chapbook Cloud Pibroch. Huge congratulations to him and to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press — himself a poet. I confess I haven’t read Jim’s pamphlet yet, but to judge from the last time I heard him
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The shortlist for this year’s Crashaw prize was announced this week, and I was delighted to see that my friend Stephen Nelson is among their number. I was almost equally pleased to see that he’s the first of the shortlisted authors to be profiled on the Salt blog. All digits are disecting for him. Stephen
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Congratulations are in order for another Salt poet and friend, Tony Williams, whose book The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street has been shortlisted for this year’s Aldeburgh prize! I wish Tony all the best for it. The Corner … is an absolutely cracking collection and would be a deserving winner. (The full shortlist
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I wasn’t even aware that the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry had established a prize for first collections until I logged on to Facebook and saw from a post by fellow Salt poet and blogger Tony Williams that I’d been shortlisted! What’s more, there are two other Salt books on the list — Anne Berkeley‘s
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What do the big literary prizes really represent? Fellow Salt author and blogger Elizabeth Baines has been posting about rules in the Booker and the Guardian first book award that palpably discriminate against small publishers such as ours. I recommend you take a look. The scary thing is that, if my reaction and those of
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The category winners for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust book awards have been announced. The first book prize went to Sarah Gabriel’s Eating Pomegranates. Congratulations to her and commiserations to my fellow nominees JO Morgan and Momus. I confess I haven’t read her book yet, but I certainly will. It sounds like a powerful volume.
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At last I’m able to unzip my lips and announce that The Ambulance Box has been shortlisted for the first book category in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2010! I’ve had to sit on the news for about a fortnight until the Scottish Arts Council, which administers the prize, made it public. I
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Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Crashaw prize. Here at Tonguefire, the biggest whoop of all — and I tell, you readers, it is a decibelicious whoop indeed — is for the fact that Ryan Van Winkle is among their number.
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And to prove it, here they are: Are they no bonnie? I like ’em every bit as much as the hardbacks. Chris and Jen do a great job on their books, regardless of what format they’re in. And, for all my professed reservations about prizes, it does feel good to have Shortlisted for the 2009
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And the first blogly act of 2010 is to congratulate all those shortlisted for Salt’s 2009 Crashaw Prize, not least Ryan Van Winkle, the reader in residence at the Scottish Poetry Library and one of those forces for the good of (Scottish) poetry hid away in the Forest. It is much deserved and I have
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Congratulations to Robert Crawford on winning the Saltire Society’s book of the year award and commiserations to my friend Alison Lang on not winning the first book award. News of the results is surprisingly hard to come by, with rather scant information in the BBC online report and naething ava on the Saltire Society’s own
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Following on from yesterday’s complaint against the lack of poetry in the shortlists for the Saltire Society literary awards, it occured to me that, if a specific poetry award is the solution, perhaps StAnza might be the organisation to oblige. Of course, the funding and administration of such an award would need to be sorted
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I didn’t want to sully my celebration of the wonderful news that Alison Lang has been shortlisted Saltire Society literary awards with this gripe, so I’ve held it over for today: where on earth are the poetry books on the shortlists? There’s Crawford’s biography of Burns, but that’s the closest we get. No Hunt in
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