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 →

Writing Prompts from Morphologies Masterclasses

On the 21st April, we launched our Morphologies Masterclass programme of livestream talks given by six contemporary short story writers Continue reading →

Resonating with a Strange Future

Chen Qiufan (born 1981), also known as Stanley Chan, is a science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter. His first novel The Waste Tide, Continue reading →

Stay home and read: what Comma are looking forward to reading this summer

It would potentially be hypocritical of us to ask of you to support the book publishing industry without us doing Continue reading →