Comma Press

Comma Press

Founded	2002
Founder	Ra Page
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Manchester
Publication types	Books
Official website	commapress.co.uk

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
• Michelle Green

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)

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
• 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

External links

• Comma Press official website
• Arts Council England on Comma Press