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 π
πAll proceeds to the authors
commapress.co.uk/books/voices...
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BLOG: Transmissions from Jodrell Bank π‘
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 π
commapress.co.uk/blog/chris-b...
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Jodrell Bank | Chris Beckett's Fiction
This vast structure is the main radiotelescrope at Jodrell Bank, near Macclesfield, where I and a bunch of other writers spent the day last week. This was as part of an ongoing project of Comma Books ...
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 π‘πͺ
π www.chris-beckett.com/uncategorize...
π FIRMAMENT (Coming 2026) commapress.co.uk/books/firmam...
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2025 Anthology
UPDATE: The winner was β¦ the story I enjoyed the least. Nonetheless, I acknowledge that Colwill Brown has a distinctive voice. Another quick contribution to #ShortStorySeptember. I was delighβ¦
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...
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THE BOOK OF BRADFORD at Town Festival π
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Thursday 16 Oct @ 6:30pm
π @bookcornerhx.bsky.social
Featuring the wonderful David Barnett, Lesley McEvoy & M.Y. Alamβ
ποΈFREE ENTRY www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/town-festi...
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NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING INDUSTRY DAY '25π
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Sat 15 Nov (9.30-5.30pm)
π Manchester Writing School, M15 6BG
βKeynote by a renowned author
βTwo panel discussions
βA choice of four workshops
β2 one-to-one meetings with lit agency reps/eds
βNetworking
ποΈ eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nation...
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American peeps, the US edition of Voices of Resistance is coming November 27th from @biblioasis.bsky.social π
All proceeds go to the writers in Gaza βοΈ
Pre-order here: biblioasis.com/shop/forthco...
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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...
ποΈ20 Oct Manchester Poetry Library, M15 6BG
ποΈFREE places for MMU & UoM Students
π englishpen.beaconforms.com/form/057fe075
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Back in printβ¦
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Sololand by Hassan Blasim, translated by Jonathan Wright
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)
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I picked up some great books at the Northern Publishers Fair π
Published by @northodoxpress.bsky.social, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, @deadinkbooks.bsky.social & @commapress.bsky.social
#booksky
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Great seeing you Elliot!
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Just 5 days until the start of @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social's fan-favourite Horror short story course at Chorlton Library! π»βοΈ
Only a few places left, so don't delay! ποΈπ₯
ποΈBook Here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...
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3 WEEKS TO GO βοΈπ»
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.
πChorlton Library
ποΈSep 30-Dec 9
π©DM to avoid booking fees
ποΈ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/horror-sho...
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BBC Radio 4 - BBC National Short Story Award - Available now
Available episodes of BBC National Short Story Award
Catch the BBC National Short Story Award 2025 shortlist readings on BBC Radio 4 this week and later on BBC Sounds
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π» bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
π commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...
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From Gaza to the diaspora: 10 powerful books by Palestinian writers (featuring Voices of Resistance)
www.newarab.com/features/10-...
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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 ππ»
'Rain - A History' by Andrew Miller is available now on BBC Sounds π
π Buy the full shortlist: commapress.co.uk/books/bbc-na...
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Clean version π
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THE BOOK OF BRADFORD #Giveaway π
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! π₯³
π commapress.co.uk/books/the-bo...
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Future refugees
The three novellas in Sololand, Hassan Blasimβs fourth work of fiction, confront the reader with uncomfortable home truths about life in Iraq β and
βBlasimβs 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.β -
@thetls.bsky.social
βοΈ Alev Adil on 'Sololand' by Hassan Blasim
π www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Well done all and especially Ed Hogan @ensfr.bsky.social
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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.
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SF/F writer & narrator. Hugo-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
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New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
Follow us for news about CTIS students & staff, research seminars, and all things translation and intercultural studies!
Writer.
Over 800 short stories published + some non-fiction.
Loves books & TV & films.
1970s/1980s nerd.
Ex-astrophysicist, currently designing a time machine.
Almost died once, can't recommend it.
Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
Your UK City of Culture. A thrilling year of culture, creativity and the arts β It starts here.
Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, born Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of BIO Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship, 2025-6)
Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-nominated editor.
Illustrator of slimy things.
Devotee of comic books & guit-fiddle music of every stripe.
OPEN for both editing & art gigs.
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Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.socialβ¬. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
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WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP coming Jan 2026
SECRET THIRD PROJECT Fall 2026
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Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1 & 2; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon/BSFA/BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; articles in Irish Uni Review, symplokΔ, Science Fiction Studies, Irish Studies Review, JGNC; fiction in many venues... He/Him
Critic. Writer. Editor. Lecturer. Writing about art, teaching others how to write about art. Scouser, RCA alum, cofounder @TheDoubleNegative.co.uk. Freelance critic for BBC, Art Monthly etc.π±πππ¦πΌ
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A creature-feature podcast about monsters and why we love them. Hosted by Joe Praska and Kalid Hussein.
Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback π©· π π©΅
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Short fiction and science writer from India. Love reading/writing weird speculative fiction. Stories in Intrepidus Ink and Dark Holme Publishing.
