Comma Press
| Founded | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ra Page |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Manchester |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website |
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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.
Comma Press is one of Arts Council England's 'National Portfolio Organisations'.[1]
Origins
Comma Press was founded in 2002 by Ra Page, a former editor at Manchester's City Life magazine.[2]
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
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)
Anthologies
Comma Press publishes anthologies of short stories, including the BBC National Short Story Award Anthology.[3]
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
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
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)
References
- ↑ Arts Council England Official website
- ↑ City Life magazine
- ↑ BBC National Short Story Award