Eleswhere: Stories From Small Town Europe

The launch of Comma's second translation anthology, Elsewhere, provided a rare opportunity to experience the true internationalism of the short story, with stories read in three different languages, accompanied by simultaneous translations. Elsewhere features stories from ten small, but defining European towns, and explores the ambivalent position that the small town occupies in our collective literary imagination. Home to snug communities and strange, unnerving events, post-industrial torpor and Utopian imaginings all at once. The evening's readers were Brage award-winning author Frode Grytten (Norway) , the renowned author, editor, and hellraiser Roman Simic (Croatia), and acclaimed North West poet, Jean Sprackland.

With the kind support of the Granada Foundation and The Golsoncott Foundation.