BBC NSSA 2019: The five shortlistees

On Friday 6th September, it was announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row that the BBC National Short Story Award Continue reading →

Voices from the National Creative Writing Industry Day 2018

The National Creative Writing Industry Day is the largest conference of its kind taking place in the North of England. Continue reading →

WIT Month: Perween Richards on translating Palestinian author Nayrouz Qarmout

August marks Women in Translation month, the same month that Comma will publish The Sea Cloak and Other Stories by the Continue reading →

An extract from ‘Ponti’ by Sharlene Teo

Comma have announced that the award-winning debut novelist Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti (Picador 2018), will give the keynote speech Continue reading →

NOT Trump’s Summer Reading List

This month we publish Refugee Tales III, the third book in the ‘Refugee Tales’ series which sees acclaimed authors retell the stories Continue reading →

Bradford Short Story Course Guest Blog – Workshop 3

Step behind the scenes of our Bradford short story course at the City Library, tutored by Mark Connors, which kicked Continue reading →

Bradford Short Story Course Guest Blog – Workshop 2

Step behind the scenes of our Bradford short story course at the City Library, tutored by Mark Connors, which kicked Continue reading →

The Compass in the Heart: Palestine +100

To mark Nakba Day – the 71st anniversary of the Nakba – translator and editor Basma Ghalayini reflects on the Continue reading →