Comma Press
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- QUEER FICTION WRITERS' DAY ✍️ 📅 MAR 1 (11-2pm) 📍 Chorlton Library, M21 9PN 🎫 FREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict... Join us for a Queer Fiction workshop led by @cdelull.bsky.social, followed by a panel, readings & Q&A w/ @adambeyoncelowe.bsky.social & another writer TBA.
- This is a companion to our full Queer Fiction course. The course will teach the craft of short stories & explore queer fiction through exercises & analysis of queer texts. Writers will develop 2-3 stories with their best work published in a Comma eBook. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict...
- Jane Rogers examines the connection between life & fiction in today's issue of The Morning Star ✍ 📻 5 stories from Fire Ready will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from March 2-6 from 10:45pm 📘 FIRE READY: commapress.co.uk/books/fire-r...
- QUEER FICTION SHORT STORY COURSE ✍️ 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-fict... 📅 6-8pm Wed: Mar 25, Apr 22, May 20, Jun 17, Jul 15, Aug 19 📍 SEESAW - M1 6NG Learn to write short stories & explore the world of queer fiction in an inclusive writing group lead by @cdelull.bsky.social.
- Ever wondered how a literary translator brings a story into a whole new language? Come along to Manchester in Translation 2026 for practical workshops on literary translation, with a focus on Chinese. Non-speakers or Chinese welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
- MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2026 🗣️ 📅 FEB 23 @ 5:30pm 📍 Club Academy Uni of Manchester Students Union Oxford Road M13 9PR Come to Manchester in Translation '26 for talks & Chinese translation workshops - no experience necessary! 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
- TICKETS GOING FAST!🎟️🔥 Book your place for Voices of Resilience: Diaries & Poetry from Gaza at Leeds playhouse on Feb 5th👇 🎟️ www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/book-online/...
- Join us 5 Feb @LeedsPlayhouse for Voices of Resilience, an evening of diaries and poetry from Gaza. Ft Batool Abu Akleen, Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, Ala'a Obaid, Daeema Najjar. Read by Julie Hesmondhalgh, Dani Abulhawa, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and many more www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/voices...
- MICRO MARKETS, MAJOR VOICES: Strengthening Malta's Small-Island Publishing We're thrilled to be taking part in the National Book Council's seminar on small-island publishing at The London Book Fair 2026. Info & Registration 🔗👇 www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...
- MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION 2026 🗣️ 📅 FEB 23 @ 5:30pm 📍 Club Academy Uni of Manchester Students Union Oxford Road M13 9PR Come to Manchester in Translation '26 for talks & Chinese translation workshops - no experience necessary! 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...
- ‘Some things should never be written, some things need to be written… [a] remarkable collection of Palestinian writing.’ - @irishtimes.com PALESTINE - 1 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
- Join us 5 Feb @LeedsPlayhouse for Voices of Resilience, an evening of diaries and poetry from Gaza. Ft Batool Abu Akleen, Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, Ala'a Obaid, Daeema Najjar. Read by Julie Hesmondhalgh, Dani Abulhawa, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and many more www.leedsplayhouse.org.uk/event/voices...
- 📘THE BOOK OF BRATISLAVA - Pub Feb 12 Eds. @juliasherwood.bsky.social & Radoslav Passia Ft. Lajos Grendel, Igor Hochel, Barbora Hrínová, Jana Juráňová, Lucia Piussi, Richard Pupala, Ján Rozner, Rudolf Sloboda, Alta Vášová & Eva Vozárová. commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
- GREENE DOOR MENTORING SCHEME @greeneandheaton.bsky.social is delighted to be bringing back its Greene Door mentoring scheme for writers from underrepresented backgrounds✍️ 📜Completed manuscript not required. 🗓️Closing date is 27 Mar 2026. More Info: greeneheaton.co.uk/the-greene-d...
- What will the struggle for Kurdish independence look like in 2046? Set in the year 2046, a century after the short-lived Republic of Mahabad, this book offers space for new possibilities in the ongoing struggle for self-determination. KURDISTAN + 100 📕 commapress.co.uk/books/kurdis...
- Congratulations President Trump on winning The Kitschies 'Glentacle' award for extraordinary service to the field of Sci-Fi & Fantasy - couldn't be more deserved! 🎉
- Reposted by Comma PressVery happy with my most recent book acquisition. Looking forward especially to the short story by Sairish Hussain. @commapress.bsky.social 💐📖
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- 'Prepare to be surprised, unsettled, and thrilled. And don’t be surprised if you close this book having discovered a new favourite writer.' - @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social Ft. Ben Connell, Greg D'Cruz, Peter Law, K.L. Johnson, Catherine Wimpeney & Tami Wylie ✍️ www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GGHPVH6...
- 9 years ago we lost Mark Fisher, whose work offers perhaps the best diagnosis of the situation we find ourselves in. In his memory, we've tasked authors with using Fisher's ideas as a jumping off point for all-new horror fictions. 📘THE MONSTER, CAPITAL (Feb 26) commapress.co.uk/books/monste...
- We're delighted to share this wonderful anthology of gothic fiction produced by the writers on our Gothic short story course, taught & edited by @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 📕🌹 Ft: Ninutsa Nadirashvili , Peter Beech, Adam Brown, Ewan Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social, Margo Laurie & Christina Isibéal ✍️ 🔗👇
- Iran stands at a turning point, caught between social pressures within, & sabre-rattling without, but this turning point exists in the context of history. We asked Iranian authors to picture Iran in 2053, 100 years after the CIA-backed coup to overthrow PM Mossadegh. commapress.co.uk/books/iran100
- Reposted by Comma PressIt's publication day! I contributed the short story Los Cabezudos to this anthology from @commapress.bsky.social. Available now on Kindle for a mere 99p! 1/3 #gothic #writing #writingcommunity www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GGBB1QZR
- We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end. How wrong we were. 📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
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- Reposted by Comma PressBBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
- To understand President Trump's criminal strikes on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro, we need to see these actions in the context of America's century long history of foreign intervention, both overt and covert. THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
- ‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’…. Well, a light frosting at least.
- The Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum was bombed in 1998 to draw focus away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Just saying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...
- Anyone who’s shocked or even surprised by this morning’s news clearly isn’t that well versed in the history of American imperialism. Some suggested reading: commapress.co.uk/books/the-am... #Venezuela
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- Two Comma titles - The Book of Sana’a and Voices of Resistance - in @The_NewArab’s round up of 25 books of the year: From witness to resistance: The books that marked 2025 www.newarab.com/features/wit...
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- ‘It captures the eeriness of having an uncertain future in a place that has become totally lawless; it also has a surrealism that turns out not to be totally surreal - something I wanted for my film too.’ - Atropia director on Hassan Blasim in @NewYorker www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
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- ‘As a Palestinian, I am obsessed with the idea of ghosts in relation to our history. The fear deeply rooted in the Israeli consciousness is not of armed Palestinians—it is of Palestinian ghosts, of the remnants of a history they have not fully erased.’ - Anwar Hamed arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
- I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
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- The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
- My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain “Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
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- LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥 Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
- ONLINE SCI-FI COURSE ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi with Oliver K. Langmead & get published in a Comma Press eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
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- This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder. electronicintifada.net/content/refa...
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- 'A land that produces so many beautiful poets, you can never kill it. We're here, we're not going anywhere.' We sat down with author Yara El-Ghadban to discuss her story 'The Forest of Saffouryeh' featured in Palestine - 1 🗝️📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcN...
- Every week is #ReadPalestine Week
- 'From Saffouryeh’s buried scream to the final, obscene flood, every story in Palestine -1 is placed with surgical intent.' Read @kenyanbibliophile.bsky.social 's wonderful piece on Palestine - 1 in @arablit.bsky.social ❤️ arablit.org/2025/12/04/a...
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- ‘This struggle isn’t just for the Palestinians, it’s for everyone’ - Musheir El Farra at Manchester Museum launch of PALESTINE MINUS ONE.
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- VOICES OF RESISTANCE is one of @newstatesman1913.bsky.social's books of '25 🎉 'This is writing against atrocity, every line a pitch for freedom.' ✍️Jacqueline Rose 📕 Voices of Resistance by Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, Ala'a Obaid & Batool Abu Akleen www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
- 'This is a book of love, in its most courageous and bare form.' Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇 📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
- NFA WINTER SHOWCASE 📚⛄ 📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm 📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f... Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷
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