Liana Badr on being a female author in translation

Women in Translation Month was launched in 2014 by Meytal Radzinski, a book blogger who noticed an imbalance in the Continue reading →

Refugee Tales IV: Rachel Seiffert on writing the refugee experience

Refugee Tales IV is the latest instalment in the Refugee Tales series, and the first to not only present the 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 →

International Women’s Day: Reflections on womanhood from Britain, Latvia, and Somalia

To mark International Women’s Day this year we asked three of our authors to write about what it means to Continue reading →

Protest Guest Blog: ‘The Stop the Clause march, thirty years on’ by Juliet Jacques

Never Going Underground – The Stop the Clause march, thirty years on When Comma Press asked me to contribute to Continue reading →

A Trump Reading List

It’s been a year. A year of CAPITALS USED FOR EMPHASIS AT THE END OF TWEETS. A year of walls Continue reading →

Conradology: Re-imagining ‘The Secret Sharer’ with Sarah Schofield

Today, the 3rd December, marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Conrad, and 2017 is a special year Continue reading →

Martyn Bedford Guest Blog: Writing from experience in Letters Home

Like many authors, I’m often asked to what extent my fiction is based on personal experience. Some readers seem unduly Continue reading →