“Chad Pelley’s Atlantic Canada-focused blog has quickly turned into one of the best regionally focused blogs around. He offers up interesting reviews and interviews, giving one of the richest literary regions in the country some much deserved love.” – CBC Books.
“An authoritative voice on all things bookish on the East Coast. Atlantic Canada has a vibrant literary scene, and Salty Ink covers it with humour and heart.” – Torontoist
About Salty Ink
Salty Ink is the brainchild of Chad Pelley, a multi-award-winning writer from Newfoundland. Its mandate is to promote Atlantic Canadian fiction and poetry.
Salty Ink’s activities and competitions have been featured by the arts sectors of various organizations, including CBC, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, Quill & Quire, The Telegram, The Chronicle Herald, The Torontonian, the federal government’s Language Portal of Canada, and many of Canada’s finest literary blogs, such as Bookninja, That Shakespearean Rag, Open Book Toronto, The Afterword, Book Madam & Associates, and Pickle Me This.
Highly influenced by quality of Atlantic Canadian fiction and poetry, and hyper-sensitive to the reality of book sales (no one buys a book they haven’t heard of), Pelley decided to put his passion to use and help shine a light on Atlantic Canadian fiction and poetry, using a variety of both random and regular articles. And to try and have fun with it.
Salty Ink’s Plea
Salty Ink is a one-man operation, and that man is a slow reader. Also, I am trying to brand this site, to give it a reliable consistency and feel for its followers, and as such, not every book — great as some may be — fit with Salty Ink’s brand. It is nothing personal if I don’t have time to read or promote every book. At any given time there’s a stack of books I am reading in queue.
About Chad Pelley
Chad’s debut novel, Away from Everywhere, was a Coles bestseller, won the NLAC’s CBC Emerging Artist of the Year award, and was shortlisted for the for 2010 ReLit award, as well as the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer of the Year award. It has been adopted by multiple university English courses, and a film adaptation is in the works. His short fiction has won awards, been anthologized, and published in literary journals. Chad facilitates a creative writing course at Memorial University, runs Salty Ink.com, is VP of the Writers Association of NL, and has written for a variety of publications, such as Quill & Quire, The National Post, The Telegram and Atlantic Books Today. He also sells photography and writes a dozen songs a month, and only does all of the above because he cannot sing well enough to pursue a career in music.
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Click here to Read Anansi’s Q & A with Salty Ink.
Click here to read The Torontoist’s interview with Salty Ink.
Click here to read an interview with Steven Beattie of The Quill & Quire & The Shakespearean Rag.
CONTACT SALTY INK
Salty Ink
94 Merrymeeting Road
St. John’s, NL
A1C 2W1
Email: chad@saltyink.com
Salty Ink’s Squid’n'cod logo by Chris Burke.
Chad's a multi-award-winning author, photographer, and closet musician from St. John's. 
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Not sure if I am contacting the right person…..I was hoping to make a submission to the 2011 Cuffer Prize Competion but obviously missed the boat.
How would an aspiring writer go about making contact with the appropriate person for the purpose of submitting their work for future competitions or constructive critique?
Hi Charles. If you’re in Newfoundland or Labrador, I’d suggest you join The Writers’ Alliance of NL. Google WANL. They provide many services to writers, like evaluations, and will send you weekly emails about competitions and other opportunities. As for the Cuffer, they’ll be putting out a call for submissions any day now, I am sure, for the 2012 competition.
Robin,
There is no email list. But you can be notified of new posts via RSS feed (icon at the top right-hand side of the page, or you can follow Salty Ink on Twitter or Facebook. As of yet, haven’t set up an email list. Simply not sure how that works. Thanks for your interest in Salty Ink.
please add me to your email list. Thanks