News:
9 May:
Zoe Lambert's The War Tour shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize
Congratulations to Comma author, Zoe Lambert whose debut collection,
The War Tour, has just been shortlisted for the UK's only prize for a short story collection. Congratulations also to Sarah Hall, whose
The Beautiful Indifference also made the shortlist.
More about the shortlist
here.
More about
The War Tour.
2 May:
Comma launches new European Short Story Website
As part of the newly formed European Short Story Network, Comma is proud to announce the launch of
www.theshortstory.eu - a new website showcasing the continent's best young short story writers... in translation.
24 Apr:
Award Winning and Banned
Hassan Blasim's forthcoming second collection,
The Iraqi Christ, has just been awarded one of English Pen's four
Writers in Translation Awards for 2012. Almost simultaneously, news has reached Comma that the Arabic edition of Hassan's first book,
The Madman of Freedom Square (which took three years to find an Arabic publisher after the English edition came out, and only then appeared in a heavily censored state) has just been officially banned in Jordan. More comment
here and
here. Censorship, as always, is alive and well.
20 Apr:
Comma launches new Chinese short story showcase
To coincide with the China Market Focus at this year's London Book Fair, Comma Press is launching a specially commissioned anthology of previously untranslated city-based short stories,
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China.
More about the book
here.
More about
The War Tour.
Lemistry: A Celebration of the Work of Stanislaw Lem
Edited by Ra Page and Magda Raczynska
Featuring previously untranslated stories by the Polish SF master himself (author of Solaris, The Cyberiad, etc), plus short stories, essays and pseudo-essays celebrating the influence of this unsung hero of speculative fiction, by the likes of Brian Aldiss, Toby Litt, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ian Watson, Jacek Dukaj, Piotr Szulkin, Adam Roberts, artist Mike Nelson, and many, many others.
More about
Lemistry.
The BBC National Short Story Award anthology
For the second year running Comma is extremely proud to be publishing the
prize anthology, featuring all five shortlisted stories.
>> More about the anthology and shortlist.
Also available for the
Kindle.
Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science
Selected for The Observer's
Best Books of the 2011 list.
'Exquisite... delectable' -
New Scientist.
BOOK OF THE WEEK: 'Works brilliantly... ingenious... unfailingly interesting.' -
The Independent.
Listen to author Sarah Hall and editor Ra Page discuss the science-into-fiction project on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on
iPLayer
More about
Litmus.
Also available for the
Kindle.
More Forthcoming Titles>>
Out Now:
The Shieling
by
David Constantine
**WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Award 2010.**
*SHORTLISTED for the
2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award*
The much anticipated follow-up to Constantine's highly acclaimed
Under The Dam.
'So good I'll be surprised if there's a better collection this year...'
-
The Independent, 2 Sep 09.
>>More.
The Book of Istanbul
A City in Short Fiction.
Edited by Jim Hinks and Gul Turner.
Featuring Turker Armaner, Murat Gulsoy, Nedim Gursel, Muge Iplikci, Karin Karakasli, Sema Kaygusuz, Gonul Kivilcim, Mario Levi, Ozen Yula, and Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu.
'Full of insights and surprises' -
The Guardian, 'Ten Best Books Set in Istanbul'.
>> More
Recent Releases:
The Madman of Freedom Square
by
Hassan Blasim
Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective.
*Longlisted for the
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010*
'Perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive...'
-
The Guardian in its review of another anthology, 12 Jun 10.
>>More
When It Changed
'Science Into Fiction': NEW EDITION OUT NOW!!
Ed. by
Geoff Ryman
A literary 'experiment' in the scientific sense.
*Featuring Sara Maitland's 'Moss Witch' - Runner Up in the
BBC National Short Story Prize 2009*
'Stunning'
-
New Scientist, 5 Dec 09.
>>More.
Under the Dam
by
David Constantine
*WINNER of the BBC National Short Story Award 2010*
'Flawless but Unsettling...'
- The Independent, Books of the Year.
>>More.
Planet Box
Laura Daly &
Diana Syder
A unique collaboration between a visual artist and a poet.
'Here is an English poet who is amazed by the world and wants to tell you how amazed she is.' - Jim Burns.
>>More.
The New Uncanny
Ed. by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page
Featuring:
A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison Macleod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.
*WINNER of the
Shirley Jackson Award*
'A masterclass in understated creepiness.'
- Book of the Week,
Time Out, 12 Jan.
>>More
Instruction Manual for Swallowing
by
Adam Marek
'There's a transgressive thrill to Adam Marek's debut collection of short stories that's not simply a result of the potency of the subject matter... delightful.'
-
The Guardian.
'Genuine, unsettling talent'
-
The Independent.
>>More
The Silence Room
by
Sean O'Brien
'Hugely entertaining... superbly chilling.'
-
The Guardian, 1 Aug.
'The collection is as satisfying as it is stimulating... deeply unsettlingly... darkly thrilling.'
-
The Independent, 9 Jan.
>>More
