Comma Press

Comma Press
Founded 2002
Founder Ra Page
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location Manchester
Distribution NBN International (UK)
Independent Publishers Group (US)[1]
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'.[2]

Origins

Comma Press was founded in 2002 by Ra Page, a former editor at Manchester's City Life magazine.[3]

Authors

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

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

Anthologies

Comma Press publishes anthologies of short stories, including the BBC National Short Story Award Anthology.[4]

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

  1. ↑ "Trade Orders - CommaPress". Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  2. ↑ Arts Council England Official website
  3. ↑ City Life magazine
  4. ↑ BBC National Short Story Award
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