Comma: An Anthology

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Michael Bracewell · Shelagh Delaney · Paul Morley · Gwendoline Riley · Anthony Wilson · Gerard Woodward · Tariq Mehmood · David Constantine · Clare Pollard · Amanda Dalton · Michael Symmons Roberts · Emma Unsworth · Tony Sides · Wayne Clews · Jeanie O'Hare

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Michael Bracewell is the author of six novels, the latest being Perfect Tense (Cape, 2001). He is a prolific journalist and his most recent non-fiction title was The Nineties: When Surface was Depth (Flamingo, 2002).

Shelagh Delaney wrote A Taste of Honey (1960) at the age of 17, and a year later The Lion in Love. She has since published a collection of short stories, Sweetly Sings the Donkey, and has written widely for TV, radio and cinema. Her screenplays include The White Bus (1966), Charlie Bubbles (1968) and Dance With a Stranger (1985).

Paul Morley has been a writer and columnist for the NME, The Face, Blitz, The New Statesman, The Guardian and Esquire. He was an original presenter of BBC2's The Late Show and a founding member of the group Art of Noise. His first book, Nothing, was published by Faber in 2000.

Gwendoline Riley’s first novel Cold Water (Cape, 2002) won the 2002 Betty Trask Prize for a First Novel. Her second Sick Notes is also published by Cape.

Tony Wilson’s first piece of fiction, ‘The Lightweight Trigger’ was published anonymously in The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999). He has since written a novelisation of Michael Winterbottom’s film Twenty-Four Hour Party People (2002).

Gerard Woodward is the author of three award-winning collections of poetry, Householder, After the Deafening and Island to Island. His first novel August was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize 2001.

Tariq Mehmood co-directed Injustice, a feature documentary dealing with deaths in police custody which won the 2002 Black Film Maker Best Documentary Award. His first novel Hand on the Sun, was published by Penguin in 1983. He also writes in Pothowari, his mother tongue, and is a founder of the Pothowari-Pahari language movement which aims to develop a script to enable the language to be written down.

David Constantine's poetry collections include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, The Pelt of Wasps, Caspar Hauser, and most recently Something for the Ghosts. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Enzensberger, Michaux and Jaccottet.

Clare Pollard wrote most of her first collection of poetry, The Heavy-Petting Zoo (Bloodaxe, 1998) whilst still at school. She has since written and narrated a programme for Channel 4, The Sixteenth Summer, and published a second collection: Bedtime (Bloodaxe, 2002). She is currently working for The Idler magazine, and writing her first novel Monsters.

Amanda Dalton's ’s radio plays include I Think I Could Turn and Live with Animals. Her first collection of poetry How to Disappear (Bloodaxe) was shortlisted for the 1999 Forward First Book Award.

Michael Symmons Roberts is the author of three collections of poetry, Soft Keys, Raising Sparks and last year’s Burning Babylon. He is also an award winning documentary producer for the BBC.

Emma Unsworth is a graduate of Manchester University’s Novel Writing MA.

Tony Sides has previously published fiction in the magazine, Multi-Story.

Wayne Clews is a regular contributor to Attitude and The Gay Times. His first short story recently appeared in City Secrets (Crocus, 2002).

Jeanie O'Hare’s fiction has appeared in The Diva Book of Short Stories (MPG, 2001). She was the recipient of a Jerwood Foundation Bursary in 1999.