Unfortunately Ramsey Campbell is no longer able to take part in this event. Fellow collection contributor Matthew Holness is joining us in his stead.
Join us for a behind the scenes look at The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease, a new horror anthology by award-winning publisher Comma Press.
Editor Ra Page and contributors Matthew Holness and Sarah Schofield will discuss their take on the horror of the abject. Prepare to be horrified.
About the event:
Chaired by Jim Mcleod of Gingernuts of Horror
Running time: 60 minutes
Tickets: £3 / £5 (plus 50p booking fee)
The event will be live on Zoom.
About the authors
Ra Page is the founder and Editorial Manager of Comma Press. He’s the editor of numerous anthologies, including The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999), co-editor of The New Uncanny (winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, 2008) and Litmus, voted one of 2011’s books of the year by The Observer. Between 2004 and 2013 he was also the coordinator of Literature Northwest, a support agency for independent publishers in the region (until it formally merged with Comma). He also coordinates Comma Film, an ongoing film adaptation project which regularly commissions filmmakers and animators to adapt short literary texts (poems and short stories). He is a former journalist, having been Deputy Editor for City Life magazine, and a former Director of Manchester Poetry Festival. His critical work has been published in The Journal of the Short Story in English, and he’s been a producer, co-writer and co-director on a number of short film projects. He read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MA in English from the University of Manchester.
Sarah Schofield’s stories have been published in Lemistry, Bio-Punk, Thought X, Beta Life, Spindles, Conradology and The New Abject (all Comma Press), Wall: Nine Stories from Edge Hill Writers, (EHUP) Best of British Short Stories 2020 (Salt), Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Anthology, Back and Beyond Arts Publication, Litfest’s The Language of Footprints, Synaesthesia Magazine, Lakeview International Journal, Woman’s Weekly and others. She has been shortlisted on the Bridport and the Guardian Travel Writing Competition and won the Orange New Voices Prize, Writer’s Inc and The Calderdale Fiction Prize. An excerpt from her story ‘The Bactogarden’ featured on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book. Sarah is an Associate Tutor of Creative Writing at Edge Hill University and runs writing courses and workshops in a variety of community settings. Her debut short story collection is due out in 2021 with Comma Press.
Sarah is on Twitter
Matthew Holness is a writer, director and actor. He created and starred in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace for Channel 4 and his short films include A Gun For George, The Snipist and Smutch. His stories have appeared in Phobic, The New Uncanny, Protest (all Comma), and Dead Funny. In 2018 he directed his first feature film, Possum, based on his contribution to The New Uncanny. As an actor he has appeared in numerous films and TV series, including The Haunting of Bly Manor, We Are Lady Parts, Free Agents, Toast of London and Year of the Rabbit.
Matthew is on Twitter
