PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️ 🗓️THIS SUNDAY at Assembly Roxy 🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales... Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times.

ONLINE SCI-FI COURSE ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl...

JUST A FEW TICKETS LEFT! 📣 We're closing ticket sales this Sunday (Nov 9th) so be sure to book your place at the National Creative Writing Industry Day while you can! 🎫🔥 Click here to book and see the full programme of events 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

PALESTINE - 1 📚🗝️ Stories from the Eve of the Nakba Ed. Basma Ghalayini 📕 Publishing Nov 13 commapress.co.uk/books/palest... How can literature respond to a genocide? Palestine - 1 attempts to answer this question by first rejecting the lie that history began in Oct '23.

Teen scholar trapped in Gaza after being blocked by Home Office from joining her mum in UK www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

‘The official literature is self-censored, our favorite authors wound us by not uttering a word or signing a letter of protest, while the warmongering pundits speak and type under a spell of utter hysteria.But this banality is briefly erased by four women’ prismreports.org/2025/10/28/v...

Teenager from Gaza ‘stuck in hell’ after being prevented from joining mother in UK Dania Alafranji, 16, still waiting on visa from Home Office despite being offered school place in Berkshire 18 months ago. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“I’m reaching for the scissors when the lamp bulb flickers and dies.” Barghest by Susan King Author: Susan King Narrator: Louise Hewitt Host: Alasdair Stuart Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2025/10/24/p... This story was first published Modern Folklore: A Comma Press Course Anthology

VOICES OF RESILIENCE: Diaries & Poetry from Gaza ✍ 📅 Nov 4 📍 @trplymouth.bsky.social 🎟️ my.theatreroyal.com/340912/340913 'They don’t want to see me as anything but a number, a voiceless creature. But they have failed.' ✍️:Batool Abu Akleen & Sondos Sabra 🎙️: Sara Masry & Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan

‘I miss her. I can’t think of anything else. Everything – cars, electricity, water, roads –reminds me of her. I go to sleep thinking about her.’ Teenage girl Dania awarded scholarship at British boarding school trapped in Gaza, separated from her mother. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

TOMATO CAIN by Nigel Kneale 🍅 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/tomato... In 22' we brought horror legend Nigel Kneale's short fiction back into print for the first time in decades, uniting stories from US & UK editions & ft unseen work specially dug up for this edition.

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '25🎉 📅 Sat 15 Nov (9.30-5.30pm) 📍 Manchester Writing School, M15 6BG ⭐Keynote by a renowned author ⭐Two panel discussions ⭐A choice of four workshops ⭐2 one-to-one meetings with lit agency reps/eds ⭐Networking 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

SCI-FI SHORT STORY COURSE W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍ 📍 Online Via Zoom 📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl... Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.

‘...a very dangerous world plagued by poverty, criminal gangs, rapacious rulers, and, most treacherous of all, unrepressed memories of an earlier time when exhilaration was imaginable.’ EGYPT + 100 in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/egyp...

A random mix of new and old from this morning's delvery

PALESTINE - 1 at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair 📚🕊️ 🎟️ lighthousebookshop.com/events/pales... Basma Ghalayini & Mazen Maarouf discuss the stories of Palestinian villages in the year before the Nakba, & the place of history in constantly 'unprecedented' times. 🗓️ 9 Nov (4-5pm) 📍 Assembly Roxy

Building your Halloween reading list? 👻 Explore our range of modern horror, from Victorian Gothic revival, to anthologies rooted in theories of the Uncanny, the Abject & irrational Phobias. Order as a bundle for a big discount 📚👇 commapress.co.uk/bundles/hall...

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY - FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED! 🎉✍ 📅 Sat 15 November (9.30-5.30PM) 📍 Manchester Writing School 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation... ⭐KEYNOTE + Q&A with author Claire Daverley

SCI-FI SHORT STORY COURSE W/ @oliverklangmead.bsky.social 🚀✍ 📍 Online Via Zoom 📅 Dec 15 - Feb 23 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sci-fi-onl... Explore the farthest reaches of your imagination & get published in a Comma eBook on this Sci-Fi course lead by renowned author & poet Oliver K. Langmead.

The Book of SANA’A (A City In Short Fiction) www.tripfiction.com/the-book-of-... "..This has been a good introduction for me to a city that has never really crossed my radar, other than in the news.." @commapress.bsky.social #blueskybooks #booksky

'Kneale, consciously or not, is trying to buttress the reader against desensitization, which is often the grounds on which violent media is criticized.' The Bulwark on Tomato Cain. www.thebulwark.com/p/just-readi...

‘There is a continuing trauma and new threats to our safety from gangs who terrorise us. Our ordeal has changed, but it’s far from over’ Sondos in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

FREE BOOK EVENT🎟️📚 Join us tomorrow at @bookcornerhx.bsky.social w/ authors David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y Alam for readings and chat about 'The Book of Bradford', a new anthology in celebration of @bradford2025.co.uk 🎉 Free entry but RSVP👇🎟️ bookcornerhalifax.com/town/

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY 2025 WORKSHOP ✍ Marketing Yourself as a Writer w/ @callieuntitled.bsky.social 📚 Learn the basics of marketing yourself in this creative and interactive workshop with author and book marketer Callie Kazumi. 🎟️now on sale eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

ONE WEEK TO GO! RSVP for free 👇

Tomorrow online @commapress.bsky.social

If you can this #BookshopDay, or over the next ten days, please get down to one of our TOWN events. We are a completely grassroots festival and rely on your support, this year more than ever. bookcornerhalifax.com/town/ @thegraystonunity.bsky.social

Sondos Sabra chronicles a day in the life as a Palestinian living in Gaza in this excerpt from "Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide." - Truthdig www.truthdig.com/articles/voi...

Sondos Sabra is the lead story in this week's New Statesman, with her latest diaries from Gaza. Find more of Sondos' diaries, as well as those of Ala'a Obaid, Batool Abu Akleen & Nahil Mohana in Voices of Resistance 👇 📕All proceeds to the authors commapress.co.uk/books/voices...

BLOG: Transmissions from Jodrell Bank 📡 We brought a crack team of authors to @jodrellbank.bsky.social to get up close with the facility from the darkest server-rooms to the massive bowl of the 250ft MK1 Telescope. Read Chris Beckett's write up here 👇 commapress.co.uk/blog/chris-b...

Sci-Fi author Chris Beckett muses on our trip to @jodrellbank.bsky.social & the SKAO, and his story of a star-less planet for an upcoming Comma anthology 📡🪐 📜 www.chris-beckett.com/uncategorize... 📘 FIRMAMENT (Coming 2026) commapress.co.uk/books/firmam...

Many thanks to @commapress.bsky.social for the review copy of The BBC National Short Story Award 2025 anthology. I managed to read it before last night's awards announcement and thoroughly enjoyed it (even though my prediction was far wrong!) bookishbeck.com/2025/09/30/t...

THE BOOK OF BRADFORD at Town Festival 📚 📅Thursday 16 Oct @ 6:30pm 📍 @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Featuring the wonderful David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y. Alam✍ 🎟️FREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/town-festi...

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '25🎉 📅 Sat 15 Nov (9.30-5.30pm) 📍 Manchester Writing School, M15 6BG ⭐Keynote by a renowned author ⭐Two panel discussions ⭐A choice of four workshops ⭐2 one-to-one meetings with lit agency reps/eds ⭐Networking 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

American peeps, the US edition of Voices of Resistance is coming November 27th from @biblioasis.bsky.social 📚 All proceeds go to the writers in Gaza ✍️ Pre-order here: biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...

This workshop w/@kaszyma.bsky.social asks how can we use languages to effect change? What's the difference between translation as activism & translation as art? & much more... 🗓️20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG 🎟️FREE places for MMU & UoM Students 🔗 englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075

Back in print…

This is absolutely magnificent (from @commapress.bsky.social). Three devastating, perfectly crafted novellas set in contemporary Iraq. (With thanks to @john-self.bsky.social for being the best critic)

I picked up some great books at the Northern Publishers Fair 📚 Published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social & @commapress.bsky.social #booksky

Just 5 days until the start of @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social's fan-favourite Horror short story course at Chorlton Library! 👻✍️ Only a few places left, so don't delay! 🎟️🔥 🎟️Book Here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...

3 WEEKS TO GO ⌛️👻 HORROR w/ @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social We'll journey from the most terrifying concept; a blank page, and arrive at a polished story which we'll publish in a Comma eBook. 📍Chorlton Library 🗓️Sep 30-Dec 9 📩DM to avoid booking fees 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...

Extremely fortunate to be able to take a team of writers to @jodrellbank.bsky.social, visit the SKAO, learn about the work being done there and even walk on the dish! 📡 Can’t wait to share the end result of this project with you, so watch this space… get it? 🔭🪐

Catch the BBC National Short Story Award 2025 shortlist readings on BBC Radio 4 this week and later on BBC Sounds 🧵👇 📻 bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... 📗 commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

From Gaza to the diaspora: 10 powerful books by Palestinian writers (featuring Voices of Resistance) www.newarab.com/features/10-...

'Everything captured a bit of Bradford that I knew... like a homecoming.' The Book of Bradford editor @saimamir.bsky.social chats w/ @yorkshirepost.co.uk ahead of Saturday's launch. FREE 🎟️ bradford2025.co.uk/event/book-o... www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul...

Tune into BBC Radio 4 today at 15:30pm to hear 'Yair' by Emily Abdeni-Holman, shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2025 📚📻 'Rain - A History' by Andrew Miller is available now on BBC Sounds 🔊 📗 Buy the full shortlist: commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway 📚 Can you name the 10 #Bradford landmarks on The Book of Bradford cover? First person to like, share & answer all 10 correctly will receive a copy of this upcoming anthology specially commissioned for @bradford2025.co.uk! 🥳 📚 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

‘Blasim’s demotic documentary tone is not just authentic, it is also revolutionary in form... The result is prose as urgent and innovative in its style as it is uncompromising in its content.’ - @thetls.bsky.social ✍️ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim 📃 www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Well done all and especially Ed Hogan @ensfr.bsky.social

One of our TOWN Festival events is THE BOOK OF BRADFORD, a new anthology of stories celebrating this year's City of Culture. The wonderful @commapress.bsky.social are bringing three of the contributors to Halifax for a fab evening of readings and celebration.