#Comma Press

[arablit]

Eight Publishers Bringing Out Gazan 'Diary of a Genocide' in 7 Languages

By ArabLit Staff Political scientist and multi-award-winning novelist Gazan Atef Abu Saif — author of the moving The Drone Eats with Me, an account of the 2014 bombardment of Gaza — has a new book coming near-simultaneously from at least eight publishers in seven languages. The book, Don’t Look Left: A Diary of a Genocide, is composed of diary-like reminiscences that offer a first-hand,…

[kaggsy59]

Myths, fairy tales and women's lives @commapress

Today I want to share with you a rather wonderful collection of short stories which came my way recently. The book is entitled “True North” by Sara Maitland, and it’s released by an indie publisher who’s made regular appearances on the Ramblings – Comma Press. I’ve covered a number of their city-focused anthologies as well as releases by M. John Harrison. However, Maitland is an author new to me…

[motherlanguageday]

Focusing on literary translation.

HOSTED BY COMMAPRESS, MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION WILL BE A SERIES OF FREE ONLINE WORKSHOPS AND PANELS OFFERING ADVICE AND INSIGHT INTO THE WORLD OF TRANSLATION.

Taking place over three days from 19-21 Feb 2024, the event will be an opportunity for budding translators – or those with a passion for languages – to develop practical skills for literary translation, learn about the life of the translator and discover paths to publication.

The online conference will begin with a keynote from an award-winning translator, followed by two panel events and three workshops focusing on literary translation from Arabic, as well as both a European language and one of Manchester’s community languages (Arabic, German and Bangla/Bengali) into English.

IMLD 2024: MANCHESTER IN TRANSLATION

DATE: 19-21 February 2024

TIME: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

PRICE: Free

THEME; Languages

ORGANISER: Comma Press

BOOK TICKETS

[illufinch]

fish for a commission

[siroofington]

[ID: a manga page from Nabari no Ou that's been colored in shades of blue. It's a full-page illustration of an underwater scene where Miharu and Hanabusa are shown among various fish and sea creatures. They're very old species, some of which are extinct. Hanabusa is central on the page, holding her hand up to a coelacanth as she narrates:

"The atoms that rained down on earth from space became the ocean. They became life. And eventually, they became us. If a type of life was interrupted, it became a part of the land. And now, after an extraordinary amount of time, it quietly gives us pieces of the memories from when it was alive... It doesn't matter if the life lasted a few minutes or hundreds of years. It all accumulates and helps to raise up the next life. Mankind may only have been born in a corner of a corner of the earths timeline, but we're still connected to 4.6 billion years of memories. Isn't it exciting to think that that includes you?"

End ID]

Trans. Alethea & Athena Nibley, coloring by me

[howmanyholesinswisscheese]

50% of fic writing is spending several minutes on a single line only to realise you've accidentally been editing the first page of the fic instead of actually trying to give it a plot

[possuminnit]

Sometimes, I will admit, I do think about ctommy

[eskititgay]

fengqing + pork soda - glass animals

[artfartt]

I have news!

I made 3 new aus!

But dw I didn’t forget abt the book thingy au

Tw: bright colors for the last one, and lots of reading

1st au (going from most recent)

So the magic rabbit au. Max is a magician that’s in need of a assistance and Sam is a dog man in need of a job, what perfect match! Sam always wanted to be a magician, but he was horrible at it, but Max never gave up on him. Max never gotten too attached to anyone, but Sam was something different, but of course because I’m writing it Max believes that this shouldn’t be allowed, so they just go on with their acts. Since Max has a bad reputation with other magicians, they get into some “freelance trouble” like being tied up on a spinning wheel and letting little kids throw axes at them /hj. Max does rethinks his feelings, but I’m not sure if he ever confesses to him since I came up with this yesterday, but he does go over Sam’s house so much they practically live together, so yeah.

2nd au

In The love doctor au, Max has every type trauma you can imagine (main character moment). He’s a sad, unemployed, lifeless soul. While watching tv one day, he comes across an ad about a nonprofit organization that helps cure people called ‘The love doctors’. He finally decides to go there after been told to go there by his therapist several times and was partnered with Sam. Sam worked day and night to help him. At first, Max was hesitant and uncooperative, but the more they go one the more he realizes that he likes Sam. Once he got cured, he got too attached and decided to cheat his way into staying with Sam more. In the end Sam finds out about the crush and Sam and Max now live together. Max taking care of the house, and Sam helping out patients. Every now and then, Max finds hisself sad at home, but Sam can easily cure him.

3rd (and final)

I wanted to redraw this since it was made a whole month ago so here’s the original

In the toy prince au they live in a society where they’re different regions that belong to certain kings and queens (and they’re all toys). Sam is the prince of “The Aces” (one of a few colonized lands) but soon has to make his choice on who will be his spouse. And because this is Sam we’re talking, he’s looking forward to marrying someone. Max is an orphan picked off the streets when he was little, and was chosen to be the royal jester. Ever since then Sam and Max has been best friends, but Max’s friendship for Sam has grown stronger over time. A bit too strong. Once the day comes for Sam to choose his wife, his mother breaks the news that he’ll be marrying princess ‘Queen Cat-toy’ (yes that’s her name) for treaty purposes with one of the regions. This marriage makes Max jealous because he’s Max, and because he’s afraid Sam won’t hang around him anymore. And that’s when he discovers his feeling for him, but he tries to reject them because “forbidden love” stuff. A few weeks later, Sam’s birthday comes around and he and Max barely talk anymore because Cat-toy needs attention and she keeps dragging Sam everywhere with her. Sam becomes sick of her but he can’t divorce her because she’s crazy and tries to threaten him by planning out a huge war. Because of this Sam realizes that he misses Max, in a way he feels like he shouldn’t. In the middle of the huge birthday party, he sneaks to go take a break from life itself, and Max follows. Max finally decides to speak his feelings and Sam and him decides they’ll be in a royal affair. Princess Queen Cat-toy soon finds out that about this affair and is trying to catch him in the act to get guillotined (I forgot to mention, Max gets sentenced to the guillotine several times because he and Sam like to go out on adventures around the village, and usually Max is the one to get in trouble even if it was Sam’s idea to go in the first place).

Fun fact: this one was inspired and made the same day as The Amazing Digital Circus

[daemonhxckergrrl]

"it's working, IT'S WORKING !!" <- me having successfully composed my 2nd regular expression for a simple substitution in vim

[arablit]

‘Egypt + 100’: Fictions on the Future of Public Space

By M Lynx Qualey Each anthology of near-future fiction in Comma Press’s “Futures Past” series has had a distinctly different flavor. The stories in Iraq + 100, ed. Hassan Blasim, are set in 2103, a hundred years after the disastrous US-led invasion, and many of them map the catastrophic aftereffects of this war.  Palestine + 100, ed. Basma Ghalayini, is set a hundred years after the 1948 Nakba,…

[kaggsy59]

"Mankind is the only endangered species on this planet" #bookofprague @commapress

As you might have noticed from my end of November post, I read a good number of short story collections during that month. Two of those were focused around stories from specific cities, and the one I want to talk about today is from an indie publisher I’ve mentioned before on the Ramblings – Comma Press. As well as publishing excellent collections by M. John Harrison, they’ve also released a…

[curejiraiya]

ask me about my Hiro Hayami hyper fixation

[pepplemint]

Should I genuinely block vashwood. I don't want to because a lot of it is pretty bomb but there's also so many bad yaoi takes. Would my life be better if I blocked it

[thxnks4themrms]

hmmm now what if i make another side blog for one of my other special interest

[nonuggetshere]

I know this is a whiplash from the current au talk but

Petunia: damn the demon kinda gnc as fuck tho👀👀

Lummis: YOURE INSANE

Said demon:*dislocates their jaw and opens their mouth revealing the most fucked up mouth you've ever seen*

Petunia: ...Ayo that's kinda hot-