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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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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.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
‘It’s in the almost incidental details that Maitland’s prose really shines, with a rhapsodic beauty.'

@matthewepaul.bsky.social reviews the inimitable Sara Maitland's selected works 'True North' (link 👇🧵)

📃 matthewpaulpoetry.blog/2025/11/07/r...
Review of Sarah Maitland’s True North
Sara Maitland, True North, Selected Stories, Comma Press, 2024 £14.99, available to buy here.Among post-war British writers, few can justifiably claim to have amassed an oeuvre as varied and intere…
matthewpaulpoetry.blog
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Palestine Minus One at the Manchester Museum, 3 Dec. Fighting the erasure of history through fiction. This will be a great event. Book now.
Palestine Minus One
www.museum.manchester.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 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 👇🧵
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 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.
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 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...
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
JUST A FEW TICKETS LEFT! 📣

We're closing ticket sales this Sunday (Nov 9th) so be sure to book your place at the National Creative Writing Industry Day while you can! 🎫🔥

Click here to book and see the full programme of events 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
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
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Teen scholar trapped in Gaza after being blocked by Home Office from joining her mum in UK
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
www.bigissue.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
‘The official literature is self-censored, our favorite authors wound us by not uttering a word or signing a letter of protest, while the warmongering pundits speak and type under a spell of utter hysteria.But this banality is briefly erased by four women’ prismreports.org/2025/10/28/v...
Palestinian women write to us from the end of the Earth
The devastating anthology, “Voices of Resistance,” reminds us that despite our overwhelming grief, we won’t be alone forever
prismreports.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK
Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa from Home Office despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months ago.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK
Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months ago
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Reposted by Comma Press
“I’m reaching for the scissors when the lamp bulb flickers and dies.”

Barghest
by Susan King

Author: Susan King
Narrator: Louise Hewitt
Host: Alasdair Stuart
Audio: Graeme Dunlop

pseudopod.org/2025/10/24/p...

This story was first published Modern Folklore: A Comma Press Course Anthology
PseudoPod 999: Barghest
I’m reaching for the scissors when the lamp bulb flickers and dies. Cursing, I use the torch on my phone to push through the stacks of unpacked boxes. I flick the light switch. Nothing happens.
pseudopod.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:40 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
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
‘I miss her. I can’t think of anything else. Everything – cars, electricity, water, roads –reminds me of her. I go to sleep thinking about her.’ Teenage girl Dania awarded scholarship at British boarding school trapped in Gaza, separated from her mother. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Teenage girl awarded scholarship at British boarding school trapped in Gaza
Exclusive: A gap in the Home Office’s evacuation rules means that high school students with prestigious scholarships like teenager Dania Alfaranji have slipped through the cracks, reports Maira Butt
www.independent.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 7:04 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.
October 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Reposted by Comma Press
NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '25🎉

📅 Sat 15 Nov (9.30-5.30pm)
📍 Manchester Writing School, M15 6BG

⭐Keynote by a renowned author
⭐Two panel discussions
⭐A choice of four workshops
⭐2 one-to-one meetings with lit agency reps/eds
⭐Networking

🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Comma Press
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.
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
‘...a very dangerous world plagued by poverty, criminal gangs, rapacious rulers, and, most treacherous of all, unrepressed memories of an earlier time when exhilaration was imaginable.’

EGYPT + 100 in @foreignaffairs.com

www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/egyp...
Egypt + 100: Stories From a Century After Tahrir
A dozen Egyptian writers were invited to imagine the Egypt of 2111, exactly a century after the start of the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. The results are revealing.
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Comma Press
A random mix of new and old from this morning's delvery
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 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...
October 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
October 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposted by Comma Press
The Book of SANA’A (A City In Short Fiction)

www.tripfiction.com/the-book-of-...

"..This has been a good introduction for me to a city that has never really crossed my radar, other than in the news.."

@commapress.bsky.social

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The Book of SANA'A (A City In Short Fiction) - TripFiction
The Book of SANA'A (A City In Short Fiction), edited by Laura Kasinof. This is part of a series, with new city titles regularly added to the collection.
www.tripfiction.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'Kneale, consciously or not, is trying to buttress the reader against desensitization, which is often the grounds on which violent media is criticized.' The Bulwark on Tomato Cain. www.thebulwark.com/p/just-readi...
Just Reading About Nigel Kneale’s Horror Stories is Unnerving
A master at discomfiting and disquieting.
www.thebulwark.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM