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Publication types
  
Books

Founder
  
Ra Page

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Official website
  
commapress.co.uk

Founded
  
2002

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Headquarters location
  
Manchester, United Kingdom

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Comma Press is a publishing house based in Manchester, UK. It publishes short story anthologies and single-author collections in paperback and eBook formats.

Contents

Comma Press is one of Arts Council England's 'National Portfolio Organisations'.

Origins

Comma Press was founded in 2002 by Ra Page, a former editor at Manchester's City Life magazine.

Authors

UK authors published in full-length book form by Comma Press

  • Adam Marek
  • David Constantine
  • Jane Rogers
  • Rob Shearman
  • Sean O'Brien
  • Zoe Lambert
  • Michelle Green
  • Sara Maitland
  • Guy Ware

    • Non-UK authors published in full-length book form by Comma Press

  • Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson (Icelandic)
  • Emil Hakl (Czech)
  • Empar Moliner (Catalan)
  • Gyrðir Elíasson (Icelandic)
  • Hassan Blasim (Iraqi)
  • Maike Wetzel (German)
  • Mirja Unge (Swedish)
  • Nedim Gürsel (Turkish)
  • Paweł Huelle (Polish)
  • Diao Dou (Chinese)
  • Sema Kaygusuz (Turkish)

    • Anthologies

    Comma Press publishes anthologies of short stories, including the BBC National Short Story Award Anthology.

    Full List of Titles

  • Amuse-Bouche - Arnon Grunberg
  • Cold Sea Stories - Pawel Huelle, trans. Antonia Lloyd Jones
  • Hitting Trees with Sticks - Jane Rogers
  • I Love You When I'm Drunk - Empar Moliner
  • Instruction Manual for Swallowing - Adam Marek
  • It was Just, Yesterday - Mirja Unge
  • Long Days - Maike Wetzel
  • The Madman of Freedom Square - Hassan Blasim
  • Moss Witch - Sara Maitland
  • On Flying Objects - Emil Hakl
  • The Last Tram - Nedim Gursel
  • The Iraqi Christ - Hassan Blasim
  • The Shieling - David Constantine
  • The Silence Room - Sean O'Brien
  • The Stone Thrower - Adam Marek
  • Stone Tree - Gyrdir Eliasson
  • Tea at the Midland - David Constantine
  • Tiny Deaths - Robert Shearman
  • Twice in a Lifetime - Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson
  • Under the Dam - David Constantine
  • The War Tour - Zoe Lambert
  • You Have 24 Hours to Love Us - Guy Ware
  • Points of Origin - Diao Dou

    • BBC Short Story Awards

  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2010 - with a Foreword by James Naughtie
  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2011 - with a Foreword by Sue MacGregor
  • The BBC International Short Story Award 2012 - Introduced by Clive Anderson
  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2013 - with a Foreword by Mariella Frostrup

    • Science into Fiction

  • Moss Witch - Sara Maitland
  • Litmus - ed. Ra Page
  • Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research
  • Lemistry - Stanislaw Lem, with ed.s Magda Raczynska and Ra Page
  • When It Changed - Ed. Geoff Ryman

    • Horror

  • The New Uncanny - ed. Sarah Eyre & Ra Page
  • Phobic: Modern Horror Stories - ed. Andy Murray

    • Crime

  • ID: Crimes of Identity - Martin Edwards (ed)
  • MO: Crimes of Practice - Martin Edwards (ed)

    • Translated Fiction from Europe

  • Cold Sea Stories - Pawel Huelle, trans. Antonia Lloyd Jones
  • ReBerth : Stories from Cities on the Edge - Jim Hinks (ed)
  • Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe - Maria Crossan (ed)
  • The Book of Istanbul - Edited by Jim Hinks & Gul Turner
  • Amuse-Bouche - Arnon Grunberg

    • Translated Fiction from the Middle East

  • The Book of Istanbul - Edited by Jim Hinks & Gul Turner
  • The Madman of Freedom Square - Hassan Blasim
  • The Iraqi Christ - Hassan Blasim

    • Reading the City

  • The Book of Istanbul - Edited by Jim Hinks & Gul Turner
  • The Book of Leeds - Tom Palmer & Maria Crossan (ed)
  • The Book of Liverpool - Maria Crossan & Eleanor Rees (ed.s)

    • Comma Press Anthologies

  • Brace - Jim Hinks (ed)
  • Bracket - Ra Page (ed)
  • Comma - Ra Page (ed)
  • Decapolis: Tales from Ten cities - Maria Crossan (ed)
  • Ellipsis 1 - Sean O'Brien, Jean Sprackland & Tim Cooke
  • Ellipsis 2 - Jane Rogers, Polly Clark & Zoe Lambert
  • Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe - Maria Crossan (ed)
  • Hyphen - Ra Page (ed)
  • Madinah - ed. Joumana Haddad
  • Parenthesis - Ra Page (ed)
  • ReBerth : Stories from Cities on the Edge - Jim Hinks (ed)
  • Shi Cheng - Short Stories from Urban China
  • When It Changed - Ed. Geoff Ryman
  • The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction - Ed Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks & Masashi Matsuie

    • Essays

  • Morphologies - Ra Page (ed)
  • Comma Classics - Various

    • Poetry

  • Bad Leg - Ed Barton
  • Dangerous Driving - Chris Woods
  • Dr Graham’s Celestial Bed - Gaia Holmes
  • Lifting The Piano With One Hand - Gaia Holmes
  • Mollusc - Helen Clare
  • Pray For Us Sinners - Joolz Denby
  • Planet Box - Diana Syder & Laura Daly

    • Novels

  • Home is Where - Heather Beck
  • Ditch-Crawl - John Latham
  • While There is Light - Tariq Mehmood

    • Booklets

  • Leeds Stories 1 - Isaac Shaffer (ed)
  • Leeds Stories 2 - Isaac Shaffer (ed)
  • Liverpool Stories 1 - Tane Vayu (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 1 - Ra Page (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 2 - Ra Page (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 3 - Ra Page (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 4 - Ra Page (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 5 - Ra Page (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 6 - Jon Atkin (ed)
  • Manchester Stories 7 - Emma Unsworth (ed)
  • September Stories - with Prospect Magazine
  • Newcastle Stories 1 - Angela Readman (ed)
  • September Stories - Ra Page (ed)

    • Literature Apps

  • LitNav
  • MacGuffin

    • References

    Comma Press Wikipedia
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