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Join us @arabicartsfest for 2 amazing events on Yemeni and Palestinian short fiction! 📚 🗓️Jul 16: PALESTINE - 1 preview w/ Basma Ghalayini, @mazenmaarouf & Anwar Hamed 🇵🇸 🗓️Jul 19: THE BOOK OF SANA'A launch with Laura @kasinof, @rim_mugahed, @mohdgh & Su Annagib 🇾🇪 🎟️👇

📝 “They want to amputate my memory. They want to erase every trace of that life. But still, I remember.” Francesca Vawdrey on “Voices of Resistance: Diaries of a Genocide” by Batool Abu Akleen (@AbuAkleen), Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana & Ala’a Obaid (@commapress, 2025):…

My latest #bookreview @MiddleEastMnt Voices of Resistance: Diaries of Genocide (@commapress) middleeastmonitor.com/20250723-voice… via @middleeastmnt

JANE ROGERS & FIRE READY @caxtonbooks' Book Club 📚 🗓️July 28 2025 📍Caxton Books, Frinton-on-sea, CO13 9PP Reserve your place via 📞01255 851505 📩[email protected] Each session is £6 & requires a book purchase 👇 📘commapress.co.uk/books/fire-rea…

Check out our new blog post through the link in bio! In this post, Sophie writes about the wonderful Comma Press Insights Day we attended earlier this month @commapress #SYPNorth #Publishing #SYPblog #CommaPress

GAIA HOLMES @shipleytriangle 🎉 📅 Wed 30 July 📍 The Triangle, BD18 3DS ⌚ 7pm for 7.30 start 🎫 Pay-as-you-feel Join Gaia for a special guest reading at the 83rd Rhubarb at The Triangle, plus an ever-wonderful open mic for new writing.

BURSARY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE! 🎉 📩DM to apply or to book without fees Discounted tickets are now on offer for our fan-favourite Horror writing course with @MrGeetsRomo starting September 30th at Chorlton Library! 🎟️Book here eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-short…

Shaymaa Abulebda, an influential writer & scholar from Gaza, should soon be starting a PhD at the University of Edinburgh [part of which is an internship at Comma]. Instead she lives in a tent in al-Mawasi displacement camp in the ruins of southern Gaza. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

The best free verse poem written in English is ‘It’ by Gaia Holmes. It appears in commapress.co.uk/books/dr-james… published by @commapress

Today is publication day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE. It has been such an honour to work on this extraordinary book. 🍉✊🇵🇸

Enjoy an evening of stories and discussion with Mazen Maarouf, Anwar Hamed, and Basma Ghalayini to launch Comma Press's new anthology, Palestine Minus One, as part of Liverpool Arab Arts Festival! Wed 16 Jul, 7-8pm £5, or pay what you can Book now: thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/laaf-p…

📖✨ The Book of Sana’a 🗓️ Sat 19 July | ⏰ 12:45pm 📍 VideOdyssey 🎟️ £5 | bit.ly/3GEAjTZ Step into the heart of Yemen’s capital through poetry, stories & music. 🇾🇪 Celebrate the voices of Sana’a with readings, food, & writing Hosted by @comma_press & @arabicartsfest

#Festival | Liverpool @arabicartsfest is in full swing until 20 July! Still to come ⬇️ 🎤 Palestine Minus One at @theBluecoat 🎭 A Grain of Sand حبة رمل at @unitytheatre 🎥 The Legend of the Looms at @toxtethtv Explore what's on and get involved: bit.ly/3Hh7wot

When they swear they haven’t been on a Comma Press writing course but they’ve learned the art of short fiction in just 6 weeks & have been published in a Comma eBook 👀 HORROR w/ @MrGeetsRomo starts Sep 30 👻✍️ 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/146959375748…

HORROR: Short Story Course w/@MrGeetsRomo 👻✍️ We'll start with that most terrifying of concepts - a blank page - and arrive at a polished story for a Comma eBook, learning the subtle art of horror along the way. 🗓️Starts Sep 30 📍 Chorlton Library 🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-short…

If #Manchester excels at anything these days it's knocking up eyesores overnight and giving a middle-finger to the working class 🫠 📘The Book of Manchester dissects the 'Manctopia' dream with 12 short stories by the city's finest writers 👇 commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

Join Liverpool Arab Arts Festival with Mazen Maarouf, Anwar Hamed, and Basma Ghalayini to launch the daring new anthology, Palestine Minus One. Wed 16 Jul, 7-8pm Tickets: £5, or pay what you can Book now: thebluecoat.org.uk/whatson/laaf-p…