Comma Press
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Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
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Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end.
How wrong we were.
📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end.
How wrong we were.
📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
January 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
We commissioned The American Way in '21 after the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan.
At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end.
How wrong we were.
📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
At that time there was speculation that America's days of overt, thuggish entanglements & invasions were coming to an end.
How wrong we were.
📗THE AMERICAN WAY commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...
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The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolívar, featuring an introduction by Hugo Chávez, is free to download.
"Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it
with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"
"Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it
with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"
The Bolivarian Revolution
Known throughout Latin America as El Libertador, Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar was one of the most important leaders in the wars of independence from Spain. Recently revived by Venezuelan pre...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
The Bolivarian Revolution by Simon Bolívar, featuring an introduction by Hugo Chávez, is free to download.
"Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it
with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"
"Bolívar foresaw the threat of the US and described it
with surprising clarity: 'the United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of Freedom.'"
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BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.
To understand President Trump's criminal strikes on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro, we need to see these actions in the context of America's century long history of foreign intervention, both overt and covert.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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THE AMERICAN WAY
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January 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
To understand President Trump's criminal strikes on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro, we need to see these actions in the context of America's century long history of foreign intervention, both overt and covert.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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THE AMERICAN WAY
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‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’…. Well, a light frosting at least.
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.’…. Well, a light frosting at least.
The Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum was bombed in 1998 to draw focus away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Just saying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...
Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory - Wikipedia
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January 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum was bombed in 1998 to draw focus away from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Just saying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shif...
Anyone who’s shocked or even surprised by this morning’s news clearly isn’t that well versed in the history of American imperialism. Some suggested reading: commapress.co.uk/books/the-am... #Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Anyone who’s shocked or even surprised by this morning’s news clearly isn’t that well versed in the history of American imperialism. Some suggested reading: commapress.co.uk/books/the-am... #Venezuela
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Finally, short fiction and 3 out of the 18 collections read in the course of 2025 that really stood out.
The Book of Bradford, from @commapress.bsky.social
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, Neil Campbell.
You Never Get it Back, Cara Blue Adams.
The Book of Bradford, from @commapress.bsky.social
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, Neil Campbell.
You Never Get it Back, Cara Blue Adams.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Finally, short fiction and 3 out of the 18 collections read in the course of 2025 that really stood out.
The Book of Bradford, from @commapress.bsky.social
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, Neil Campbell.
You Never Get it Back, Cara Blue Adams.
The Book of Bradford, from @commapress.bsky.social
Saying Dirty Things in Regional Accents, Neil Campbell.
You Never Get it Back, Cara Blue Adams.
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One of my favourite things I did this year probably went under a lot of people’s radar. For the Bradford City of Culture, @commapress.bsky.social published The Book of Bradford, with my story about what might have been if Aleister Crowley visited the city in 1905.
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The Book of Bradford - A City in Short Fiction | Comma Press
£10.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Nick Ahad, Marjorie ‘Malachi’ Whitaker, David Barnett, Sairish Hussain , Abda Khan and others
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December 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One of my favourite things I did this year probably went under a lot of people’s radar. For the Bradford City of Culture, @commapress.bsky.social published The Book of Bradford, with my story about what might have been if Aleister Crowley visited the city in 1905.
commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
Two Comma titles - The Book of Sana’a and Voices of Resistance - in @The_NewArab’s round up of 25 books of the year: From witness to resistance: The books that marked 2025
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25 standout books of 2025: Palestinian stories, diaspora voices, and global literary breakthroughs
Book Club: A curated list of 25 remarkable books published in 2025 spotlighting resistance, memory, identity, and the human stories defining our turbulent times
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December 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Two Comma titles - The Book of Sana’a and Voices of Resistance - in @The_NewArab’s round up of 25 books of the year: From witness to resistance: The books that marked 2025
www.newarab.com/features/wit...
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Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices.
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'Palestine Minus One'
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'Palestine Minus One'
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#booksky
December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ten Palestinian writers re-imagine #Palestine the year before the #Nakba – the forced mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 – and explore the events leading up to it through fantastical, supernatural and speculative fiction devices.
📚
'Palestine Minus One'
@commapress.bsky.social
#booksky
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'Palestine Minus One'
@commapress.bsky.social
#booksky
‘It captures the eeriness of having an uncertain future in a place that has become totally lawless; it also has a surrealism that turns out not to be totally surreal - something I wanted for my film too.’ - Atropia director on Hassan Blasim in @NewYorker www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
What to Read Before Your Trip to Atropia
Hailey Benton Gates, the director of the “military-industrial-complex romantic comedy” “Atropia,” recommends a few books that share a kinship with her new film, about actors working in a fake village ...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
‘It captures the eeriness of having an uncertain future in a place that has become totally lawless; it also has a surrealism that turns out not to be totally surreal - something I wanted for my film too.’ - Atropia director on Hassan Blasim in @NewYorker www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
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Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
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I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
I never expected to outlive this genocide
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December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Incredible writing in unbearable circumstances by Batool Abu Akleen, published in the UK by @commapress.bsky.social.
‘As a Palestinian, I am obsessed with the idea of ghosts in relation to our history. The fear deeply rooted in the Israeli consciousness is not of armed Palestinians—it is of Palestinian ghosts, of the remnants of a history they have not fully erased.’
- Anwar Hamed
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- Anwar Hamed
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On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with ficti…
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December 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
‘As a Palestinian, I am obsessed with the idea of ghosts in relation to our history. The fear deeply rooted in the Israeli consciousness is not of armed Palestinians—it is of Palestinian ghosts, of the remnants of a history they have not fully erased.’
- Anwar Hamed
arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
- Anwar Hamed
arablit.org/2025/12/15/o...
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
thewalrus.ca/i-was-displa...
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
I never expected to outlive this genocide
thewalrus.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It
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‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
On ‘Fighting Ideological Fantasy with Fiction’
Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with fiction.
arablit.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘…can ideological fantasy be challenged, and perhaps ruptured, through the imaginative power of fiction itself?’
The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list.
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My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating
www.newstatesman.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...
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Oliver has an immense brain and an audacious soul, so this should be excellent.
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥
Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
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Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
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December 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Oliver has an immense brain and an audacious soul, so this should be excellent.
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule
Hayat says her teenage daughter cannot leave Gaza and take up her UK scholarship due to her age.
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December 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥
Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
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Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
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December 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥
Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...
Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars For The Holidays
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the immense violence of the prison syste...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder.
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Refaat Alareer and the online culture war
Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
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December 6, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This was the hardest piece to write. Thank you EI for allowing me to share some of the abuses the media perpetrated against Refaat that led to his murder.
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electronicintifada.net/content/refa...
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"[Palestine -1]'s 12 stories migrate through the connected and unspoken traumas of the land, its people, and their minds, working together to dismember the monsters of the past and present, and to restore a smiling promise of return."
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Palestine -1 book review - The Skinny
In Comma Press's latest anthology, 12 writers imagine the year leading up to the Palestinian Nakba.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"[Palestine -1]'s 12 stories migrate through the connected and unspoken traumas of the land, its people, and their minds, working together to dismember the monsters of the past and present, and to restore a smiling promise of return."
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in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me
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December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me
@commapress.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
@commapress.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social
@peepaltreepress.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social
@flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social