Comma Press
@commapress.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
On with the next panel discussion on ‘Building your Literary Community’ with Emma Claire Sweeney from Ruppin Agency, and writers Cara Thompson and Alex Noble ✨📚✍️
#bookish #literatureevent #NCWID25 #literarycommunity #bookishcommunity
#bookish #literatureevent #NCWID25 #literarycommunity #bookishcommunity
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
On with the next panel discussion on ‘Building your Literary Community’ with Emma Claire Sweeney from Ruppin Agency, and writers Cara Thompson and Alex Noble ✨📚✍️
#bookish #literatureevent #NCWID25 #literarycommunity #bookishcommunity
#bookish #literatureevent #NCWID25 #literarycommunity #bookishcommunity
Here for the inspiring authors and poets, in depth panel discussions, literary workshops, and 1-1 pitching sessions ❌
Here for the free tote bag ✅
#totebag #NCWID25 #booklovers
Here for the free tote bag ✅
#totebag #NCWID25 #booklovers
November 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Here for the inspiring authors and poets, in depth panel discussions, literary workshops, and 1-1 pitching sessions ❌
Here for the free tote bag ✅
#totebag #NCWID25 #booklovers
Here for the free tote bag ✅
#totebag #NCWID25 #booklovers
Tuning in to the panel discussion on ‘Working with an Agent: From Submission to Publication’ with Anna Davis, founder and director of @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social creative writing school, Natalie Jerome from @originateliterary.bsky.social, and author Tom Benn ✍️📚
#NCWID25 #creativewriting #literature
#NCWID25 #creativewriting #literature
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Tuning in to the panel discussion on ‘Working with an Agent: From Submission to Publication’ with Anna Davis, founder and director of @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social creative writing school, Natalie Jerome from @originateliterary.bsky.social, and author Tom Benn ✍️📚
#NCWID25 #creativewriting #literature
#NCWID25 #creativewriting #literature
‘If it’s meant to be out in the world it will find its way, even if it’s another project’ No work is ever truly abandoned, they’re saved for their moment ❤️ #NCWID25 #aspiringauthor
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
‘If it’s meant to be out in the world it will find its way, even if it’s another project’ No work is ever truly abandoned, they’re saved for their moment ❤️ #NCWID25 #aspiringauthor
‘The true dream deep down for a writer…is producing work that you yourself believe in and can stand by when it enters the world’ #NCID25
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
‘The true dream deep down for a writer…is producing work that you yourself believe in and can stand by when it enters the world’ #NCID25
‘The difference between published writers and unpublished writers, is the published ones didn’t give up. They had the grit. They knew how to be a pain in their own arse.’ Claire Daverley, Keynote #NCWID25
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
‘The difference between published writers and unpublished writers, is the published ones didn’t give up. They had the grit. They knew how to be a pain in their own arse.’ Claire Daverley, Keynote #NCWID25
‘Don’t force yourself to write through dejection. If you’re a writer at heart, the urge to write will come back and tug on your sleeve.’ Claire Daverley on dealing with rejection. #NCWID25
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‘Don’t force yourself to write through dejection. If you’re a writer at heart, the urge to write will come back and tug on your sleeve.’ Claire Daverley on dealing with rejection. #NCWID25
“Every rejection -that you should expect- they’re just necessary steps towards ‘yes’” - Claire Daverley on “failed” manuscripts
#aspiringauthor #booklover #creativewriting #perseverance
#aspiringauthor #booklover #creativewriting #perseverance
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Every rejection -that you should expect- they’re just necessary steps towards ‘yes’” - Claire Daverley on “failed” manuscripts
#aspiringauthor #booklover #creativewriting #perseverance
#aspiringauthor #booklover #creativewriting #perseverance
5 years after Palestine + 100, on the same rickety fire-escape, we're honoured to share a new anthology of Palestinian fiction, rooted in the '48 Nakba.
'To understand the Nakba now, we must understand the Nakba then.' - Basma Ghalayini
PALESTINE - 1 📙
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
'To understand the Nakba now, we must understand the Nakba then.' - Basma Ghalayini
PALESTINE - 1 📙
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
5 years after Palestine + 100, on the same rickety fire-escape, we're honoured to share a new anthology of Palestinian fiction, rooted in the '48 Nakba.
'To understand the Nakba now, we must understand the Nakba then.' - Basma Ghalayini
PALESTINE - 1 📙
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
'To understand the Nakba now, we must understand the Nakba then.' - Basma Ghalayini
PALESTINE - 1 📙
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
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...
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 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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...
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...
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Ed. Basma Ghalayini🗝️📚
Through visions, ghosts, djinn, doppelgangers & divided selves , the authors of Palestine - 1 use the lens of genre fiction to explore the Nakba & its aftermath.
📙 commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
PALESTINE - 1 LAUNCH 📚🎉
📅Dec 3📍 MCR Museum
🎟️Just £5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Join us for reflection, discussion, food, readings & artefacts from the Museum archive, w/ contributors, experts & a special guest.
Proceeds to Sheffield PSC's Khan Younis emergency relief fund.
📅Dec 3📍 MCR Museum
🎟️Just £5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Join us for reflection, discussion, food, readings & artefacts from the Museum archive, w/ contributors, experts & a special guest.
Proceeds to Sheffield PSC's Khan Younis emergency relief fund.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
PALESTINE - 1 LAUNCH 📚🎉
📅Dec 3📍 MCR Museum
🎟️Just £5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Join us for reflection, discussion, food, readings & artefacts from the Museum archive, w/ contributors, experts & a special guest.
Proceeds to Sheffield PSC's Khan Younis emergency relief fund.
📅Dec 3📍 MCR Museum
🎟️Just £5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/palestine-...
Join us for reflection, discussion, food, readings & artefacts from the Museum archive, w/ contributors, experts & a special guest.
Proceeds to Sheffield PSC's Khan Younis emergency relief fund.
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
PALESTINE - 1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
Ed. Basma Ghalayini 🗝️📚
📕 Pub. Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
📚 MANCHESTER BOOK LAUNCH
📍 Manchester Museum
📅Dec 3, 2025
Link below 👇🧵
PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️
🗓️THIS SUNDAY at Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️THIS SUNDAY at Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️
🗓️THIS SUNDAY at Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️THIS SUNDAY at Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
ONLINE SCI-FI COURSE ✍️🚀
🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23
📍 Online Via Zoom
Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚
Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩
🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23
📍 Online Via Zoom
Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚
Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩
🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ONLINE SCI-FI COURSE ✍️🚀
🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23
📍 Online Via Zoom
Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚
Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩
🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23
📍 Online Via Zoom
Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚
Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩
🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
Stories from the Eve of the Nakba
Ed. Basma Ghalayini
📕 Publishing Nov 13
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.
VOICES OF RESILIENCE: Diaries & Poetry from Gaza ✍
📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social
🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913
'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.'
✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra
🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan
📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social
🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913
'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.'
✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra
🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
VOICES OF RESILIENCE: Diaries & Poetry from Gaza ✍
📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social
🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913
'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.'
✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra
🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan
📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social
🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913
'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.'
✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra
🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan
TOMATO CAIN by Nigel Kneale 🍅
📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato...
In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.
📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato...
In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
TOMATO CAIN by Nigel Kneale 🍅
📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato...
In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.
📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato...
In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.
PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm)
📍 Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm)
📍 Assembly Roxy
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm)
📍 Assembly Roxy
🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales...
Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.
🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm)
📍 Assembly Roxy
Building your Halloween reading list? 👻
Explore our range of modern horror, from Victorian Gothic revival, to anthologies rooted in theories of the Uncanny, the Abject & irrational Phobias.
Order as a bundle for a big discount 📚👇
commapress.co.uk/bundles/hall...
Explore our range of modern horror, from Victorian Gothic revival, to anthologies rooted in theories of the Uncanny, the Abject & irrational Phobias.
Order as a bundle for a big discount 📚👇
commapress.co.uk/bundles/hall...
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Building your Halloween reading list? 👻
Explore our range of modern horror, from Victorian Gothic revival, to anthologies rooted in theories of the Uncanny, the Abject & irrational Phobias.
Order as a bundle for a big discount 📚👇
commapress.co.uk/bundles/hall...
Explore our range of modern horror, from Victorian Gothic revival, to anthologies rooted in theories of the Uncanny, the Abject & irrational Phobias.
Order as a bundle for a big discount 📚👇
commapress.co.uk/bundles/hall...
⭐Two 1-to-1 MEETINGS with literary agent representatives or editors to get advice on your pitching technique and work-in-progress
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
⭐Two 1-to-1 MEETINGS with literary agent representatives or editors to get advice on your pitching technique and work-in-progress
⭐A CHOICE OF 4 WORKSHOPS
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
⭐A CHOICE OF 4 WORKSHOPS
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
How to Write a Synopsis with Joe Sedgwick ✍️
Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚
Poetics of the Haunted w/ @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social 👻
Writing Intimacy & Relationships with Rozie Kelly ❤️
⭐2 PANEL DISCUSSIONS
‘Working with an Agent’ ft Anna Davis, Tom Benn & Natalie Jerome.
'Building Your Literary Community' ft: Cara Thompson, Emma Claire Sweeney & Alex Noble.
‘Working with an Agent’ ft Anna Davis, Tom Benn & Natalie Jerome.
'Building Your Literary Community' ft: Cara Thompson, Emma Claire Sweeney & Alex Noble.
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
⭐2 PANEL DISCUSSIONS
‘Working with an Agent’ ft Anna Davis, Tom Benn & Natalie Jerome.
'Building Your Literary Community' ft: Cara Thompson, Emma Claire Sweeney & Alex Noble.
‘Working with an Agent’ ft Anna Davis, Tom Benn & Natalie Jerome.
'Building Your Literary Community' ft: Cara Thompson, Emma Claire Sweeney & Alex Noble.
NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY - FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED! 🎉✍
📅 Sat 15 November (9.30-5.30PM)
📍 Manchester Writing School
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
⭐KEYNOTE + Q&A with author Claire Daverley
📅 Sat 15 November (9.30-5.30PM)
📍 Manchester Writing School
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
⭐KEYNOTE + Q&A with author Claire Daverley
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY - FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED! 🎉✍
📅 Sat 15 November (9.30-5.30PM)
📍 Manchester Writing School
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
⭐KEYNOTE + Q&A with author Claire Daverley
📅 Sat 15 November (9.30-5.30PM)
📍 Manchester Writing School
🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
⭐KEYNOTE + Q&A with author Claire Daverley
SCI-FI SHORT STORY COURSE
W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍
📍 Online Via Zoom
📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.
W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍
📍 Online Via Zoom
📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
SCI-FI SHORT STORY COURSE
W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍
📍 Online Via Zoom
📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.
W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍
📍 Online Via Zoom
📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23
🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.