Women in Translation Month: Why it’s important to celebrate #WITmonth

This month, the world celebrates ‘Women in Translation’ – an initiative started in 2014 by blogger Meytal Radzinski that celebrates Continue reading →

Around the World in Blasim Covers

Hassan Blasim, an increasingly renowned Iraqi short story writer who The Guardian surmises as ‘perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction Continue reading →

Iraq + 100: Diaa Jubaili on short stories and life in Basra (Part 1)

Comma’s newest anthology Iraq + 100 was officially released this week, and to mark the occasion we decided to ask Continue reading →

Comma Press On Tour

Next week brings with it one of Comma’s most jam-packed week of events yet! With several new titles on the horizon, Continue reading →

International Translation Day 30th September

Here at Comma we have a mission to bring the most compelling and astonishing of stories from across the globe Continue reading →

Across the Middle East From SciFi to Sharjah

In a week where the future of Arabic science fiction is being debated at the Noor Festival’s Sindbad Sci Fi Continue reading →