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NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '26 🎉✍ Comma invites you to NCWID26, with Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Ft. Keynote, Panels, Workshops & 1:1s with agency reps & editors 👀 📅 5 Dec (9am-5pm) 📌 Grosvenor East, M15 6BG 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...

📚 Release alert: I've got a short in this very short anthology from @commapress.bsky.social, put together following a (rather fabulous) course led by @bronteschiltz.bsky.social over the summer. Fancy a quick, weird read? Head over here: www.amazon.com/Analog-Horro...

2022 #59 The Cities in Short Fiction series from @commapress.bsky.social here reaches up to the capital and only city of Iceland. The alt text has more details but this was another excellent collection giving a window onto a city and country not that well-known to the outside world. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky

HELP SHAPE COMMA'S FUTURE! 📣 As we chart a course for the next few years we want to hear your thoughts on everything from what you'd like to see from our social feeds, to where our books should visit next! It takes just a few minutes & helps us a tonne! 📄✍️ www.surveymonkey.com/r/37JQTPB

MONSTER CAPITAL at BOOKMARKS! 🎉📘 📌 @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social 📅 Oct 29 (6:30-8:30) 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/monster-ca... Join us for the launch of this new horror anthology inspired by the work of Mark Fisher... Ft @mrholness.bsky.social, Kiare Ladner, Jess Glaisher & @xenogothic.bsky.social

China +100 @commapress.bsky.social is out today! As the editor and one of the translators, it's been a remarkable journey. I hope you find it interesting, enjoyable, and perhaps it will help in some way. #books #sff #scifi commapress.co.uk/books/china-... www.amazon.co.uk/China-100-Xu...

Delighted by this addition to the series

Calling local bookshops in Manchester & Leeds. Two of the contributors to our newly published translated Chinese #scifi anthology by @commapress.bsky.social will be coming from overseas to join me at the launch on the 28th & 29th. If you stock the book and want them signed, just get in touch! #books

As an incorrigible city lover, I've long been a fan of @commapress.bsky.social's excellent Reading the City series, so I'm thrilled to have a story in The Book of Valletta, out in just two weeks! Pre-order at: commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...

Look what just arrived at Comma HQ! 👀 What might China look like in the year 2119 – a century after the outbreak of Covid-19? 📕 CHINA + 100 (Pub Oct 8) ✍️ Ed. @xuetingni.bsky.social 🔗 Pre-Order Now: commapress.co.uk/books/china-...

Huge congratulations to Cherise Saywell, winner of the 2026 BBC National Short Story Award! 🥳 In 'Ditto' we follow our young narrator as he faces indecision and uncertainty, building up the courage to make a very important phone call. 📘Order the Book commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

FOLLOW LIVE TONIGHT! 👇🎉 📻 Listen Here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 📘 Order the Collection commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

THE BOOK OF VALLETTA 📘 Ed. Kat Storace & Leanne Ellul ✍ 📅 Pub Oct 15 📘 commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo... They say Valletta was ‘a city built by gentlemen, for gentlemen’. These stories present the reality: Il-Belt – ‘the City’ – a place made by, for and of ordinary citizens.

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN! 👇

I really enjoyed China + 100 (excellent anthology of SF tales about an imagined China 100 years after COVID-19) due out from @commapress.bsky.social on 8 October. Read my review here: craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2026/09/chin...

THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2026 🐋🎉 📻 Listen to the live announcement of the winning story on BBC Radio 4 Front Row - 7:15pm on September 29th 📘 Order the Book: commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

STARTING WEDNESDAY! DISCOUNTED PLACES AVAILABLE NOW! 👇🎟️ Join our fan-favourite online horror short story course, starting Sep 30 🎉 Learn the craft of classic horror writing and have your work published in a Comma eBook! ✍️ 🎟️Discounted Tickets Here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classic-ho...

Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with 月归来 The Moon Returns by Zhao Haihong 赵海虹, a major female voice in 20th century Kehuan. A Lunarian engineer arrives on Earth to build a giant dam, will he connect with his ancestry? Translated by@commapress.bsky.social Emerging Translator Prize winner Andrew Rule 6/

This is a Good Path 这是一条好的路 by well-known science fiction writer 糖匪 Tang Fei, whose creative works spans multidisciplinary art forms. How would longevity impact on humanity? Dystopian Chinese Little Shop of Horrors. Translated by award-winning Singaporean author and poet Judith Huang. 5/

Miracle Grass 神仙草 by凌晨 Ling Chen, major female voice of 20th century Chinese sci-fi. Deadly virus breaks on the Kuiper Belt, the interplanetary rescue effort takes us from the moon to arid deserts, and ancient ecological wilds. It’s a great pleasure to be translating an author I’ve long admired. 4/

Recently heard on BBC Radio 4 and now in stock from @commapress.bsky.social: this year's National Short Story Award collection.

I Want a Different World 我想换个世界, a moving thriller by one of China's most prolific horror writers, Zhou Dedong 周德东. What would you do if you're suddenly separated from your loved one by quarantine, and never get to see them again? Translated @commapress.bsky.social veteran Jack Hargreaves. 3/

2022 #48 One of my favourite collections in the Cities in Short Fiction series from @commapress.bsky.social , this time stories set in and around the Catalan capital. There's a longer blurb in the alt text, thoroughly recommend this one. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky

BURSARY DISCOUNTS STILL AVAILABLE! 🎟️🔥 Our online horror writing course is starting next Wednesday, with just a few discounted places remaining. 📧 Email commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply. 🎟️ Tickets & More Info www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classic-ho...

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 3:30pm today to hear the 4th of 5 readings from The BBC National Short Story Award 🎉 'A Second Opinion' by @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social ✍️ 📅 Readings all week (Sep 14-18) on Radio 4 at 3:30pm 📘 Order the Book commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 3:30pm today to hear the second of 5 readings from The BBC National Short Story Award 🎉 'Little Lands' by @lucycaldwell.bsky.social ✍️ 📅 Readings all week (Sep 14-18) on Radio 4 at 3:30pm 📘 Order the Book commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

One of the things I love about translating genre fiction is the research. Here are the subjects I looked into while translating 3 of the stories in China +100 @commapress.bsky.social Hope this whets your reading appetite. Look out for the title reveals as we count down to publication! #sff #books

Our title reveals to China +100 begin today, join us in celebrating Sinophone creativity during ESEA Heritage Month, as we count down to publication day @commapress.bsky.social , which happens around the wonderful time of Mid-Autumn Festival! 1/ #books #sff #chinese commapress.co.uk/books/china-...

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 3:30pm to hear the first of 5 readings from The BBC National Short Story Award 📻 'Burning Bush' by Merryn Glover ✍️ 📅 Readings all week (Sep 14-18) on Radio 4 at 3:30pm 📘 Order the Book commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

BBC National Short Story Award 2026 announces all-women shortlist ✍️🥳 🔗 www.thebookseller.com/news/15k-bbc...

ANNOUNCING THE 2026 BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD SHORTLIST… …tonight at 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4 Front Row 📻👀 📘 Meanwhile, you can order this year’s anthology here: commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...

ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS ❤️ Online Short Story Course w/ @cdelull.bsky.social ✍ 📅 Nov 24 - Feb 2 📌 Online Via Zoom 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/romance-re... Explore romance writing in a supportive online group designed to spark conversation & creativity, &have your work published in a Comma eBook!

#SFinTranslation out this month: from @europaeditions.bsky.social, @honfordstar.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, @commapress.bsky.social, @ndbooks.bsky.social, and more

CLASSIC HORROR Short Story Course w/ Andy Murray ✍️👻 📅 Sep 30-Dec 9 📌 Zoom 🎫 www.eventbrite.com/e/1996084333... Explore classic horror writing & get your work published in a Comma eBook! 📧 Limited discounted tickets available! Email commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply!

I'm launching a new horror fiction course for Comma Press later this month - a leap into the dark, if you like. Why not come along for the ride?

👻 CLASSIC HORROR w/@mrgeetsromo.bsky.social 📅Sep 30-Dec 9 📌Zoom 🎫 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classic-ho... Explore classic horror writing & get your work published in a Comma eBook! 📧 Limited discounted tickets available! Email commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply!

1 discounted place remaining! 🎟️🔥 📧 commapublishing@yahoo.com to claim your spot! Tickets & Info in post 👇

This is such an imaginative series frim @commapress.bsky.social, very much looking forward to adding China to the shelf (Palestine and Iraq will be back in stock on Thursday)

STARTING THIS FRIDAY! ⌛🎟️ Join us at @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social for the start of our Worldbuilding short story course with @davidhartley.bsky.social - Let's build worlds together! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worldbuild... 📧 george.forster(at)commapress.co.uk for a discounted ticket

Did you know that 7 out of the 10 stories in my new anthology China +100 @commapress.bsky.social are written by women, not to mention the other three female translators working with me on this collection, let's celebrate them all during Women In Translation Month! #books youtube.com/shorts/VSPq_...

I'm really looking forward to this. I promise not to bum everyone out with talk of AI dystopias. Get your tickets here!

FUTURE HISTORIES at Edinburgh Book Fest 📅 August 22 (4:30-5:30) 📌Edinburgh Futures Institute 🎫 www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/leila... Where will the world be in 25 years? @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social joins Iran + 100 co-editor Leila Elder for a thought-provoking discussion about imagined futures.

I first read Harrison with his 2017 collection, You Should Come with Me Now: Stories of Ghosts, published by @commapress.bsky.social