Comma Press is a publishing house based in Manchester, UK. It publishes short story anthologies and single-author collections in paperback and eBook formats.
Comma Press is one of Arts Council England's 'National Portfolio Organisations'.
Comma Press was founded in 2002 by Ra Page, a former editor at Manchester's City Life magazine.
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)
Comma Press publishes anthologies of short stories, including the BBC National Short Story Award Anthology.
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)
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