Salt

Salt is one of the UK’s most original independent publishers
Since 1999, we’ve championed bold, genre-defying writing across fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories – launching the careers of over a thousand writers worldwide. Innovative, curious, and fiercely independent, we publish books that shape the conversation and stand the test of time.

Jen and I founded Salt in our Cambridge kitchen at the end of the nineties, and over the course of the following decade we published over four hundred poetry collections, working with writers around the world. Prizes followed. The addition of further teams in Australia and the USA added to the development of the list, and ambitions rose to change the feisty indie into a broader trade publisher. New distribution deals led to ever greater outreach. International sales expanded. A rights team was created.