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Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the short story and supporting the next generation of writers & translators.

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Book Cover for: The Book of Venice: A City in Short Fiction, Gianfranco Bettin

The Book of Venice: A City in Short Fiction

Gianfranco Bettin
Comma PressComma Press

Whether you've had the opportunity to travel this summer or not, transport yourself to an 'impossibly beautiful' frozen-in-time city with The Book of Venice, edited by Orsola Casagrande 🚤 https://t.co/shMQjZNqvl https://t.co/uYB5InpfNG

Paperback, 2021

$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Exterior Painting, F. Maire

Exterior Painting

F. Maire
Comma PressComma Press

On this day in 1965 #MalcolmX visited Marshall Street in Smethwick to meet local activists including Avtar Jouhl. Read about this meeting in the short story 'Exterior Paint' by @KitdeWaal and Avtar’s own memories of it in Protest: https://t.co/BHcK9qSSus https://t.co/VOsIOP4SqP

Paperback, 2022

$18.95Member price:$17.06 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Thirteen Months of Sunrise, Rania Mamoun

Thirteen Months of Sunrise

Rania Mamoun
Comma PressComma Press

So many excellent recommendations from @arablit, including our collection from Rania Mamoun 'Thirteen Months of Sunrise'! 🌄https://t.co/Di2yCB46VO #WITMonth #WomeninTranslation https://t.co/QF3ZNr9NdR

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Book Cover for: The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction, Jordi Punti

The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction

Jordi Punti
Comma PressComma Press

#TheAmericanWay is stateside … We are over in New Jersey for the @santjordiusa festival 🔔🔔with events around The Book of Barcelona, the role of radical independents and TheAmerican Way, tonight and tomorrow https://t.co/67GJaSinPu

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Book Cover for: Safely Gathered in, Sarah Schofield

Safely Gathered in

Sarah Schofield
Comma PressComma Press

"We all tell stories, don’t we?... We thread the beads of our daily lives together in ways that make sense" 📖 @SylphSea interviews @saraheschofield for @3ammagazine on stories, details, emotional truth and her debut collection SAFELY GATHERED IN: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/safely-gathered-in-an-interview-with-sarah-schofield/

Paperback, 2022

$18.95Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Bright Red: The Liverpool-Manchester United Matches, Mark Metcalf

Bright Red: The Liverpool-Manchester United Matches

Mark Metcalf
Comma PressComma Press

Remembering #BloodyFriday: The World War was over, but Glasgow was far from peace. #DonnyORourke short story 'Bright Red' is inspired by the class struggle at The Battle of George Square (1919). Read in Resist, out now: https://t.co/dK6mjLmh3M #HistoryIntoFiction #Uprising https://t.co/O1QBlQ3GlK

Paperback, 2012

$28.95Member price:$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Silence Room: Short Stories, Sean O'Brien

The Silence Room: Short Stories

Sean O'Brien
Comma PressComma Press

@martyn_amos @litandphil As you know we published a book about that place: The Silence Room by Sean O’Brien,

Paperback, 2009

$15.95Member price:$15.15 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: The Cuckoo Cage: New Origin Stories, Gaia Holmes

The Cuckoo Cage: New Origin Stories

Gaia Holmes
Comma PressComma Press

What happens when you cross environmental activists and magical abilities? Find out in the short story 'Unloved Flowers' by Gaia Holmes. Read in our anthology The Cuckoo Cage, tales of social justice superheroes on philanthropic missions, out now: https://t.co/9f8Cfja1mS https://t.co/fW7YmJcMn4

Paperback, 2022

$19.99Member price:$18.99 + Free shipping5% off
Book Cover for: Nigel Kneale, Jesse Russell

Nigel Kneale

Jesse Russell
Comma PressComma Press

‘The rule of ‘less is more’, which applies most in film, definitely applies to Kneale’s fiction too. His stories are led by their atmosphere, but he never over describes. If anything he under describes’ - author @StephenLawsSL on #NigelKneale’s Tomato Cain @FFF_Manchester https://t.co/F2rAvvhCVA

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Book Cover for: The Done Thing: A Book Club Recommendation!, Tracy Manaster

The Done Thing: A Book Club Recommendation!

Tracy Manaster
Comma PressComma Press

A young woman visiting home from America takes an interest in her grandmother's participation in the Ford Dagenham's Women's Strike of 1968 in @LuanGoldie touching short story 'The Done Thing'. Read in Resist, out now: https://t.co/dK6mjLmh3M #WomensHistoryMonth #55Years https://t.co/DrNLdmJ0Si

Paperback, 2017

$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book