Comma Press

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Comma Press
Founded2002
FounderRa Page
Country of origin United Kingdom
Headquarters location Manchester
Distribution NBN International (UK)
Independent Publishers Group (US) [1]
Publication types Books
Official website commapress.co.uk

Comma Press is a publishing house based in Manchester, United Kingdom, that publishes short story anthologies and single-author collections in paperback and eBook formats.

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History

Comma Press was founded in 2002 by Ra Page, a former editor at Manchester's City Life magazine. Comma Press is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations for the funding period from 2018 to 2022. [2]

Comma is a founding member and coordinator of The Northern Fiction Alliance, a cohort assembled to showcase the output of northern independent presses. [3] [4]

Publications

Comma Press publishes anthologies of short stories, including the BBC National Short Story Award Anthology. [5]

Comma runs the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for Short Fiction in collaboration with the University of Central Lancashire. [6] [7] [8]

Awards

In June 2017 Comma was awarded the inaugural "Northern Publisher of the Year" award at the Northern Soul Awards in Manchester. [9] [10] [11]

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