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Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.

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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 1d
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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The Books of #Yorkshire… only available from Comma

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November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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...
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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'A simple and beautiful visual concept, perfectly executed.'

Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social for the spotlight on Palestine - 1's fab cover courtesy of David Eckersall 📚🎨

📙 Palestine - 1 (Ed. Basma Ghalayini) 👇🧵

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November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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A fantastic evening of memory, resistance and speculative fiction launching PALESTINE - 1 at @britishlibrary. Many thanks to Selma Dabbagh, Anwar Hamed and Basma Ghalayini, Daniel Lowe and all who took part. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Love this cover
commapress.bsky.social Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 17d
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚

📕 Pub. Nov 13
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📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025

Link below 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Out now, from @commapress.bsky.social

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Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others
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November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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For our first annual @allisfullofgore.bsky.social Halloween Movie I picked Halloween III. Tagline pitches based on reviews from group: "So many things happen, & yet not", "Why does everyone want to fuck that guy?", & "Worth it for that bonkers segments".
commapress.bsky.social Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 16d
NEW COMMA BLOG ✍️

Nigel Kneale & the Halloween that Never Was
By @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 🎃

Andy Murray explores the Manx folklore that fuelled Kneale's stories from Quatermass to Tomato Cain, & the Halloween III script that never saw the light of day.

📜 commapress.co.uk/blog/nigel-k...
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The first day outside the archive and I can't escape him
commapress.bsky.social Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 12d
“Every rejection -that you should expect- they’re just necessary steps towards ‘yes’” - Claire Daverley on “failed” manuscripts
#aspiringauthor #booklover #creativewriting #perseverance
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November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Next Thursday, I’m going to be reading a story from Nigel Kneale’s brilliant collection, Tomato Cain, recently reprinted by @commapress.bsky.social, at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social’s @northernfiction.bsky.social 2025 Winter Showcase!

Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...
November 24, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Tonight @britishlibrary.bsky.social Tickets still available! Here's editor Basma Ghalayini's irresistible introduction to the collection bookanista.com/alternative-...
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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'The Book of Ramallah' de Ahlam Bsharat #AhlamBsharat (et al.) (ed. Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social) Lees Otras Cosas Librería Granada #Granada #Libros #Librerías #Feminismo #LGTBINBAQ+ #Cultura #Literatura #NoFicción #Ensayo #Historia #Palestina
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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'[The writing industry] can be quite inaccessible... A day like today is really great as it means that I can access the industry in a non-traditional way.'

Many thanks to Eden & Makenna for such lovely coverage of the NCWID in MMU's aAh! Magazine ✍️

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“Celebrating the vibrant creative lives being built in the North”: Comma Press and Manchester Writing School present the 2025 National Creative Writing Industry Day - aAh! Magazine
Author Claire Daverley set the tone for this year's National Creative Writing Industry Day (NCWID) on Saturday, with a keynote exploring resilience, creativity and the passion that drives writers to k...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Guest Lesley Glaister admires Jane Rogers' climate-themed short story collection, FIRE READY: "Marvellously eclectic ... fuelled by anger about climate change but shot through with light & hope." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/gues... #clifi #shortstories @commapress.bsky.social #greatreads
Guest review by Lesley Glaiser: FIRE READY by Jane Rogers
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November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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PALESTINE - 1: @britishlibrary.bsky.social TOMORROW!
🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915

📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm
📍 Pigott Theatre, London

Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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‘Usually when I pick up a collection of stories, I dip in at random, but with Fire Ready, I read greedily through from beginning to end.’

✍️ Lesley Glaister on Jane Rogers’ latest Cli-Fi collection for @writersreview.bsky.social

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Guest review by Lesley Glaiser: FIRE READY by Jane Rogers
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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At @writersreview.bsky.social: guest Lesley Glaister praises Jane Rogers' short story collection, FIRE READY. 'Marvellously eclectic - fuelled by anger about climate change but also shot through with hope." reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com/2025/11/gues... @commapress.bsky.social #clifi #JaneRogers
Guest review by Lesley Glaiser: FIRE READY by Jane Rogers
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November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Comma Press (@commapress.bsky.social) +100 series has some great stuff in translation.

EGYPT+100 edited by Ahmed Naji.

IRAQ+100 edited by Hassan Blasim.

PALESTINE+100 edited by Basma Ghalayini.

(to name just a few from them)

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November 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Meet the publishers… (and gorge on some of their books)… head down to House of Books & Friends in Manchester today 11am-3pm. Also available for stocking filling binges…
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Really looking forward to doing this event with Paul McVeigh at the Folkestone Book Festival on Sunday. Tickets still available…
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"This was the thinking behind Palestine Minus One: for twelve Palestinian writers to process the magnitude of what has been happening, offering an alternative, more distant iteration of the old Nakba.” Basma Ghalayini #PalestineMinusOne @commapress.bsky.social 📚📖💙
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Alternative Palestines
Editor Basma Ghalayini introduces the new anthology Palestine Minus One, a collection of stories by Palestinian writers reimagining the eve of the Nakba.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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This will be ace! Short Stories: Adam Marek & Paul McVeigh - Creative Folkestone www.creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/sho...
Short Stories: Adam Marek & Paul McVeigh - Creative Folkestone
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November 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Book of Ramallah is the last of this wonderful series I have that I hadn't read and I can report that it is very much up to scratch but like Gaza, there is a deep sadness about this town's future. @commapress.bsky.social deserve nothing but praise for this whole idea.
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The Book of Ramallah, A City in Short Fiction, from Comma Press. Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however--as these stories show--is the quiet dignity, resilience, and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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2020 #13 & #14
My first two Cities in Short Fiction, a brilliant idea from @commapress.bsky.social and I started with two British cities that I have past associations with. Currently reading my 27th in this series and I have one more on the shelf and another on pre-order.
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The Book of Birmingham & The Book of Newcastle, Cities in Short Fiction, from Comma Press. Birmingham is a writer's city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new generation of voices. Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most talented writers, The Book of Birmingham showcases and celebrates original and unusual writing, in all its forms. The original Northern Powerhouse, Newcastle-upon-Tyne has witnessed countless transformations over the last century or so, from its industrial heyday, when Tyneside engineering and innovation led the world, through decades of post-industrial decline, and underinvestment, to its more recent reinvention as a cultural destination for the North. The ten short stories gathered here all feature characters in search of something, a new reality, a space, perhaps, in which to rediscover themselves: from the call-centre worker imagining herself far away from the claustrophobic realities of her day job, to the woman coming to terms with an ex-lover who’s moved on all too quickly, to the man trying to outrun his mother’s death on Town Moor. The Book of Newcastle brings together some of the city’s most renowned literary talents, along with exciting new voices, proving that while Newcastle continues to feel the effects of its lost industrial past, it is also a city striving for a future that brims with promise.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM