International Mother Language Day 2021

Languages, with their multitude of associations from identity to communication to education, are of essential importance. Languages also transmit and Continue reading →

Air is his Grave: the death of Patrice Lumumba

This Sunday, the 17th January 2021, marks the anniversary of the assassination of Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1961. Continue reading →

The Comma Press Preview: February – July 2021

If you’re wishing away the rest of 2020, and looking ahead to (hopefully) bigger and better things in the new Continue reading →

Grown-Up Kids: an excerpt from ‘The Book of Jakarta’

Today Comma Press publishes the latest instalment in our Reading the City series, The Book of Jakarta. Edited by Maesy Continue reading →

An interview with translator Jonathan Wright

The highly-anticipated debut novel by award-winning Iraqi author, Hassan Blasim, is here. Behind the process of bringing God 99 from Continue reading →

#WorkInPublishing Week 2020: A remote intern’s perspective

Written by Hannah Sothcott, Marketing and Production Intern (Nov 2020) I never expected to find and secure an internship during Continue reading →

#WorkInPublishing Week 2020: Staff Journeys into Publishing

As part of #WorkInPublishing week (16th-20th November), we thought it would be useful to aspiring publishers if we shared the Continue reading →

Transmissions From the Disruptive Space: a keynote by Irenosen Okojie

This year, in collaboration with Manchester Writing School, Comma Press hosted the first online National Creative Writing Industry Conference, an Continue reading →