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
• Sara Maitland
• Guy Ware

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)
• Sema Kaygusuz (Turkish)

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

1. Arts Council England Official website
2. City Life magazine
3. BBC National Short Story Award

External links

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