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ROMANCE & RELATIONSHIPS ❤️
Online Short Story Course w/ @Ingiebeans ✍
📅 Nov 24 - Feb 2
📌 Online Via Zoom
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Explore romance writing in a supportive online group designed to spark conversation & creativity, &have your work published in a Comma eBook!
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!
Takes just a few minutes & helps us loads!
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The Book of Bratislava: A City in Short Fiction (Reading The City)
Editors: Radoslav Passia and Julia Sherwood
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These 10 stories immerse the reader into Bratislava’s everyday and would really serve any traveller to the city well..
MONSTER CAPITAL at BOOKMARKS! 🎉📘
📌@Bookmarks_books 📅 Oct 29
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Join us for the launch of this new horror anthology inspired by the work of Mark Fisher. With Matthew Holness @MrHolness, Kiare Ladner, Jess Glaisher & Em Colquhoun @xenogothic ✍️
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On Ali Abu Yassin's PEN "Writer of Courage" award (from English PEN obviously not PEN America):
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Great to see a full house for tonight’s performance (and pre-show talk) of Ahmed Massiud’s Application 39 at @factoryintl - an adaptation and update of a short story originally commissioned for Palestine -+ 100.
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
🔗 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-n…
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21 years of the BBC National Short Story Award with @Cambridge_Uni which has done so much to champion the form. Spearheaded by the indefatigable @DiSpeirs The winner will be announced live on Front Row 7.15pm tonight @BBCRadio4 Listen to the shortlist here bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0079gw…
FOLLOW LIVE TONIGHT! 👇🎉
📻 Listen Here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m003242…
📘 Order the Collection
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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-n…
THE BOOK OF VALLETTA 📘
Ed. Kat Storace & Leanne Ellul ✍
📅 Pub Oct 15
📘 commapress.co.uk/books/the-b…
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.
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-n…
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 eventbrite.co.uk/e/classic-h…
'The two years of genocide we’ve all just witnessed constitute yet another dreamlike trauma that Palestinians will always be running from... a living nightmare.'
Basma interviewed by @MEdwardsJO for @inkstickmedia ✍️
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BURSARY DISCOUNTS STILL AVAILABLE! 🎟️🔥
Our online horror writing course is starting next Wednesday, with just a few discounted places remaining!
📧commapublishing(at)yahoo.com to apply.
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👻 CLASSIC HORROR w/ @MrGeetsRomo
📅Sep 30-Dec 9 📌Zoom
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We’ll explore the stories that forged the horror genre to see what we can learn from them, & how they can inspire fresh writing today.
Learn the art of horror & get published in a Comma eBook!
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 Lucy Caldwell✍️
📅 Readings all week (Sep 14-18) on Radio 4 at 3:30pm
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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-n…
9/11 at 25: A Reading List for Understanding the War on Terror | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, including Hassan Blasim’s short stories (US edition) carnegieendowment.org/emissa…
BBC National Short Story Award 2026 announces all-women shortlist ✍️🥳
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