We are delighted to invite you to an interview with Ra Page, the CEO and Founder of Comma Press, on Monday 13th October, at 6pm (UK time), via Teams (see link below).
Founded in 2007, Comma Press is a non-profit publishing house based in Manchester, UK, that publishes short story anthologies and single-author collections. Its initial purpose was to redress the dearth of short story publishing opportunities in the UK, bringing award-winning writers like David Constantine Comma Press DC , Sara Maitland Comma Press SM and Adam Marek Comma Press AM to new audiences. Comma Press’s titles and authors have won multiple awards ranging from the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award to the BBC National Short Story Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Caine Prize, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Its podcast was shortlisted for the 2019 FutureBook Award, Podcast of the Year, and, as a publisher, it won the 2020 Small Press of the Year (Northern Region) at The Bookseller’s British Book Awards. Comma has published two subsequent Nobel Prize winners; it has sold rights to its titles into over 30 languages, sold 7 titles to Audible, seen over 60 stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and had two stories adapted for the big screen.
Its founder and CEO, Ra Page, has edited and co-edited many anthologies, including Resist: Stories of Uprising (2019), The New Uncanny (2008), Protest: Stories of Resistance (2017), The American Way (2020), and The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999). He has coordinated a number of publisher development initiatives, including Literature Northwest (2004-2013), and the Northern Fiction Alliance (2016-present). He is a former journalist and has also worked in film exhibition and production.
You can access the event here: Comma Press Interview
We look forward to seeing you there!
The ENSFR Communication team