Comma Press is a non-profit publishing initiative dedicated to promoting new fiction and poetry, with emphasis on short stories - it is currently the most prolific publisher of short story hardbacks in Great Britain. Founded in 2002, Comma began by building on Ra Page's Manchester Stories series, published in conjunction with City Life magazine, with a series of short story booklets set in four cities across the North of England. This project has now developed into a series of book-length anthologies, starting with The Book of Leeds and The Book of Liverpool. In 2007 Comma launched a new translation imprint (again specialising in short stories) to introduce new masters of the form to British readers.
