Ambit & Salt at the Bountiful Cow, Holborn: Tuesday June 19th

AMBIT AND SALT PUBLISHING AT THE BOUNTIFUL COW

Tuesday the 19th of June
7 for 7.30pm
Sue Hubbard, Valeria Melchioretto, Jay Merill and John Saul

The Ambit Writers season of readings at Roxy Beaujolais' The Bountiful Cow pub in Holborn continues with a special one-off joint event to celebrate writers that Ambit and Salt Publishing have in common.

Sue Hubbard and Valeria Melchioretto will read poetry, and Jay Merill and John Saul will read fiction, introduced by Ambit editor Dr Martin Bax and Salt director Jen Hamilton-Emery.

Sue Hubbard is a freelance art critic, novelist and poet. Twice winner of the London Writers competition she was the Poetry Society’s first Public Art Poet. Her first collection Everything Begins with the Skin was published in 1994 by Enitharmon and Ghost Station was published by Salt in 2004. A number of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2000 published by Carcanet, and she first appeared in Ambit 131, nearly 15 years ago. Depth of Field, her first novel, was published by Dewi Lewis in 2000. John Berger called it a “remarkable first novel.” She writes a regular column in The Independent.

Valeria Melchioretto is Italian and was born in the German part of Switzerland. She moved to the UK in the early 90s and holds a degree in Modern Drama and an MA in Fine Art. Valeria has appeared in prestigious periodicals including Ambit and has been widely anthologised. In 2005 she won the first New Writing Ventures. Her debut collection, The End of Limbo (Salt 2007) was sponsored by the Arts Council of England and will be published in October 2007.

Jay Merill was born in Warwickshire and now lives in London. She attended the University of London and works as a free lance editor. She has one daughter. Jay is published in a wide number of literary magazines and her short fiction is also gaining popularity in the USA. Jay has read her work at past Ambit events and her first collection of short stories, Astral Bodies, is published by Salt in June 2007.

John Saul was born in Liverpool. For most of the year he lives in Germany, where he works as a translator. He has also lived in France, Canada and Ecuador, where he began writing fiction. He is the author of two novels, Heron and Quin and Finistère. His short stories have appeared in Ambit over the years, and his collection of short stories, Call It Tender, is published by Salt in June 2007.

VENUE: The Bountiful Cow pub, 51 Eagle Street, London WC1R [Map]
NEAREST TUBE: Holborn
DOORS: 7pm for START 7.30pm
ENTRANCE: £5 or £4 concs.
FOOD AND DRINK: full bar upstairs & excellent food available (not just steak!)
Readers from the floor welcome to read a poem after the interval.