Comma Press
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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.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
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
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25 standout books of 2025: Palestinian stories, diaspora voices, and global literary breakthroughs
Book Club: A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories defining our turbulent times
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December 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
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Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices.
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'Palestine Minus One'
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'Palestine Minus One'
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December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices.
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'Palestine Minus One'
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#booksky
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'Palestine Minus One'
@commapress.bsky.social
#booksky
‘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...
What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia
Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village ...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
‘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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Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
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I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
I never expected to outlive this genocide
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December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
‘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
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- Anwar Hamed
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On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with ficti…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
‘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...
- 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...
thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
I never expected to outlive this genocide
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December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
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‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
arablit.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list.
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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...
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating
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December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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...
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
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Oliver has an immense brain and an audacious soul, so this should be excellent.
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 ✍️🚀
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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 ✍️🚀
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December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Oliver has an immense brain and an audacious soul, so this should be excellent.
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule
Hayat says her teenage daughter cannot leave Gaza and take up her UK scholarship due to her age.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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 ✍️🚀
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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 ✍️🚀
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December 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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 ✍️🚀
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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 ✍️🚀
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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.
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Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
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December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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.
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"[Palestine -1]'s 12 stories migrate through the connected and unspoken traumas of the land, its people, and their minds, working together to dismember the monsters of the past and present, and to restore a smiling promise of return."
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Palestine -1 book review - The Skinny
In Comma Press's latest anthology, 12 writers imagine the year leading up to the Palestinian Nakba.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"[Palestine -1]'s 12 stories migrate through the connected and unspoken traumas of the land, its people, and their minds, working together to dismember the monsters of the past and present, and to restore a smiling promise of return."
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in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me
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December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me
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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 🗝️📚
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We sat down with author Yara El-Ghadban to discuss her story 'The Forest of Saffouryeh' featured in Palestine - 1 🗝️📚
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Palestine - 1: Yara El-Ghadban on 'The Forest of Saffouryeh'
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December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
'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...
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...
'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 ❤️
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Read @kenyanbibliophile.bsky.social 's wonderful piece on Palestine - 1 in @arablit.bsky.social ❤️
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A Single, Slow Exorcism: The Nakba Dreamed Backwards
From the very first lines of her introduction, editor Basma Ghalayani thrusts us right into a hurried, pulsing Gaza. A passerby asks a Gazan sprinting down the street if something has happened. He …
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December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
'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...
Read @kenyanbibliophile.bsky.social 's wonderful piece on Palestine - 1 in @arablit.bsky.social ❤️
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Tonight!
NFA WINTER SHOWCASE 📚⛄
📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm
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Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷
📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm
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Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Tonight!
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Tonight! Includes @bronteschiltz.bsky.social reading a Nigel Kneale short story…
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 🥧🍷
📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm
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Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Tonight! Includes @bronteschiltz.bsky.social reading a Nigel Kneale short story…
‘This struggle isn’t just for the Palestinians, it’s for everyone’ - Musheir El Farra at Manchester Museum launch of PALESTINE MINUS ONE.
December 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
‘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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well jingle my bells it's tomorrow!
see you there @commapress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
see you there @commapress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
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 🥧🍷
📅 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 🥧🍷
December 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
well jingle my bells it's tomorrow!
see you there @commapress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
see you there @commapress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
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
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'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
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Books of the year 2025
New Statesman writers and guests – including Jonathan Franzen, Jacqueline Rose, Marina Warner and Slavoj Žižek – choose their favourite reading this year
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December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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 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...
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
Palestine -1 book review - The Skinny
In Comma Press's latest anthology, 12 writers imagine the year leading up to the Palestinian Nakba.
www.theskinny.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
'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...
Read Maria Farsoon's 5⭐️ review of Palestine - 1 in @theskinnymag.bsky.social ❤️👇
📜 www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...