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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/
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 11, 2025 at 2:46 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...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 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.
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 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
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
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
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
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
⭐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
⭐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 ❤️
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.
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
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
FREE BOOK EVENT🎟️📚

Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk 🎉

Free entry but RSVP👇🎟️
bookcornerhalifax.com/town/
October 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY 2025 WORKSHOP ✍

Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚

Learn the basics of marketing yourself in this creative and interactive workshop with author and book marketer Callie Kazumi.

🎟️now on sale eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Sondos Sabra is the lead story in this week's New Statesman, with her latest diaries from Gaza.

Find more of Sondos' diaries, as well as those of Ala'a Obaid,
Batool Abu Akleen & Nahil Mohana in Voices of Resistance 👇

📕All proceeds to the authors
commapress.co.uk/books/voices...
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
BLOG: Transmissions from Jodrell Bank 📡

We brought a crack team of authors to @jodrellbank.bsky.social to get up close with the facility from the darkest server-rooms to the massive bowl of the 250ft MK1 Telescope.

Read Chris Beckett's write up here 👇

commapress.co.uk/blog/chris-b...
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
THE BOOK OF BRADFORD at Town Festival 📚

📅Thursday 16 Oct @ 6:30pm
📍 @bookcornerhx.bsky.social

Featuring the wonderful David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y. Alam✍

🎟️FREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/town-festi...
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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
American peeps, the US edition of Voices of Resistance is coming November 27th from @biblioasis.bsky.social 📚

All proceeds go to the writers in Gaza ✍️

Pre-order here: biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more...

🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG

🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students

🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075
September 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Back in print…
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM