Suspended Time and Interior Lives: What to Expect from The BBC National Short Story Award 2020

Written by Hannah Sothcott, Marketing and Production Intern (Sept 2020) According to The Guardian in May, time spent with books has doubled Continue reading →

Where to Start with Women in Translation

In 2005, PEN World Voices found that only 3% of all books published in English were translations. Though in the Continue reading →

The Comma Press Preview: August – December 2020

Despite the first half of this year being fraught and the latter half uncertain, there are exciting things still to Continue reading →

My Vertical City and My Horizontal Escape

Editor of Comma’s forthcoming anthology, The Book of Ramallah, MAYA ABU AL-HAYAT writes about arriving and escaping from another Palestinian Continue reading →

Black Writing Resources in the UK

In support of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have compiled the following lists of publishers, organisations and resources for Continue reading →

‘The Whistling Bird’ by Karline Smith

To celebrate the paperback release of Resist: Stories of Uprising, we asked contributing author Karline Smith to introduce an excerpt Continue reading →

Northern Fiction Alliance Q&A – Bluemoose Books

Bluemoose Books is an independent publisher based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Kevin and Hetha Duffy started Bluemoose in 2006 Continue reading →

Northern Fiction Alliance Q&A – Peepal Tree Press

Peepal Tree was founded in 1985, and their focus is on what George Lamming calls the Caribbean nation, wherever it Continue reading →