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Saving Salt Publishing

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From Chris Hamilton-Emery:

“As many of you will know, Jen and I have been struggling to keep Salt moving since June last year when the economic downturn began to affect our press. Our three year funding ends this year: we’ve £4,000 due from Arts Council England in a final payment, but cannot apply through Grants for the Arts for further funding for Salt’s operations. Spring sales were down nearly 80% on the previous year, and despite April’s much improved trading, the past twelve months has left us with a budget deficit of over £55,000. It’s proving to be a very big hole and we’re having to take some drastic measures to save our business. Here’s how you can help us to save Salt and all our work with hundreds of authors around the world.

JUST ONE BOOK

1. Please buy just one book, right now. We don’t mind from where, you can buy it from us or from Amazon, your local shop or megastore, online or offline. If you buy just one book now, you’ll help to save Salt. Timing is absolutely everything here. We need cash now to stay afloat. If you love literature, help keep it alive. All it takes is just one book sale. Go to our online store and help us keep going.

2. Share this note on your profile. Tell your friends. If we can spread the word about our cash crisis, we can hopefully find more sales and save our literary publishing. Remember it’s just one book, that’s all it takes to save us. Please do it now.

With my best wishes to everyone

Chris

Director Salt Publishing”

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Stimulus Respond

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“We are currently soliciting contributions for the English edition of the next issue of Stimulus Respond, which will be titled and organised around the theme of Numbers. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Numbers, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond’s undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy. Fashion editorials and photography should be sent as low resolution jpegs including credits where necessary. The deadline for expressions of interest is 29 May, with the final deadline being 26 June. Potential contributors to the Literature section are to send an abstract of 200-300 words and an indication of the anticipated word length of the final article (within the parameters of 1000-4000 words) by 29 May. Authors of successful abstract submissions will be required to submit the final piece by 19 June and to be available to make any minor corrections by Friday 26 June.”

Via British and Irish Poets list

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:ab ovo:

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Dusie Press happily announces the publication of Jenn McCreary’s :ab ovo:

“Jenn McCreary’s… questioning of a lifetime of a priori givens takes over language, inviting it to accommodate her unacknowledged world.” –Marcella Durand.

“A book of awe and charm from the inside out.” — Rachel Blau DuPlessis.

Via Dusie Press

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Expresso Book Machine

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It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible.

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