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Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Retweets do not equal endorsements.
Manchester, UK
Joined April 2009
SCI-FI COURSE w/ Oliver K. Langmead ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️ https://t.co/QaBc1vq9Ok
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‘As a Palestinian, I am obsessed with the idea of ghosts in relation to our history. The fear deeply rooted in the Israeli consciousness is not of armed Palestinians—it is of Palestinian ghosts, of the remnants of a history they have not fully erased.’
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Several authors who contributed short stories to the collection spoke about their thoughts on the collapse of time, historical continuities and the notion of fighting ideological fantasy with ficti…
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I Was Displaced to a Tent in Gaza. I Don’t Want to Remember Any of It | The Walrus
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I never expected to outlive this genocide
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The BBC National Short Story Award anthology picked as one of The Guardian’s ‘for everyone’ Christmas present list. https://t.co/s3OpX7805a
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My degrading, yet hopeful, journey from Gaza to Britain - New Statesman
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“Refugee OK to board” is written on my plane ticket. Cold. Sharp. Humiliating
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Mother's anguish over Gaza scholarship visa rule - BBC News
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Hayat says her teenage daughter cannot leave Gaza and take up her UK scholarship due to her age.
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LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! 🎟️🔥 Our Sci-Fi short story course starts on Monday! Click the link below to sign up, or DM us to book directly and avoid fees ✍️🚀 https://t.co/QaBc1vq9Ok
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Over six sessions learn the art of writing Sci-Fi and get published in a Comma Press eBook!
SCI-FI COURSE w/ Oliver K. Langmead ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️ https://t.co/QaBc1vq9Ok
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SCI-FI COURSE w/ Oliver K. Langmead ✍️🚀 🗓️Dec 15 - Feb 23 📍 Online Via Zoom Learn the art of Sci-Fi & get published in a Comma eBook! 📚 Bursary discounts available for underrepresented writers & those on low income! DM to apply 🎟️📩 🎟️ https://t.co/QaBc1vq9Ok
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Tonight! Join us ⬇️
I’m very excited to take part in this online masterclass on writing short stories with Sanjida Kay, Ken Elkes and Joe Melia from 7:20-9pm on 9 December! I’ll be talking about writing Gothic, strange and generally unsettling short stories. 🎟️: https://t.co/Wi0Rrp8AIT
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Israel hasnt been suspended from the UN, other in'l fora, UEFA, FIFA, FIBA or cultural events. Genocide continues because it is normalised. And then, just like that, accountability in the form of a European boycott begins. Eurovicious no more! 🔗 https://t.co/R2dcGqNCnp by @ASE
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Dr.Refaat's Brother 👇🏼
We are facing eviction now. We have to pay $300 a month in rent. If we don't pay tomorrow, my family will be sleeping on the street. Your support and help are needed, my dear friends. Please. https://t.co/YxnAtAYXvy
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Refaat showed me how brave Gaza City was, as well as how funny its people were, despite decades of war, isolation and imprisonment
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Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
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Publisher Ra Page remembers his friend Refaat Alareer on the second anniversary of his murder
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Western media institutions excused the intellectual's murder by deeming him "controversial."
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.@commapress' "Palestine -1" is out now (or rather came out last month), exploring the lead-up to 1948 and its aftermath through the genre of horror. https://t.co/inLNbAdaqY
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£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others
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Such a wonderful evening yesterday at the @northfiction Winter Showcase, with readings from @DHartleyWriter, Chloe de Lullington, @BronteSchiltz, @EvanPJones and @peterkalu!
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'A land that produces so many beautiful poets, you can never kill it. We're here, we're not going anywhere.' We sat down with author Yara El-Ghadban to discuss her story 'The Forest of Saffouryeh' featured in Palestine - 1 🗝️📚 https://t.co/OKOc6nkZZO
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