Starting the New Year in the company of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social’s compelling novel in verse ‘Filly’ from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🤩

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 17 is 'I Hear the Rocks and Stones' from 'Harbour Doubts' by @bebeashley.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social 😍✨

Some lovely press this week – first up, @jackflag.bsky.social's cover for @bebeashley.bsky.social's Harbour Doubts was listed as a best book cover of 2025 by @nytimes.com 🧡 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/b... (1/3)

Very excited for Tim's brilliant debut poetry collection to be out in the world next spring 🙌

Now available for pre-order: FOUND IN A CONTEXT OF DESTRUCTION, the debut poetry collection by acclaimed writer Tim MacGabhann, out in February 2026. Cover design by @jackflag.bsky.social 🪨 bansheepress.org/shop/p/found...

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 6 is a peak of @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's epic novel in verse, 'Filly' @bansheepress.bsky.social 💖

Breaking my hibernation for a small boast. I read a poem at the Dublin launch of Banshee (@bansheepress.bsky.social) Issue 20 last night. It was a lovely, cosy evening on a chilly night in town. The other readers were superb and I'd encourage anyone to pick up a copy, you won't be disappointed.

Celebrating 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social yesterday at @booksupstairs.bsky.social Thank you so much to the @bansheepress.bsky.social & @booksupstairs.bsky.social teams, and to all our writers and readers. It was a magical night ✨️

Lovely to see this @gphibbett.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

So happy to have a wee story in this issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social Thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and the team, and congrats to all the other contributors 🥳

'There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo of my dad, a veteran of the operating theatre. This was my armoury, the layer between me and the medical team.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018) – non-fiction by Elizabeth O'Neill ✨ bansheepress.org/read/excisio...

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025. Next is Chris Arning's pick: High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett (Banshee Press). Thank you, Chris!

Come join us this Thursday @booksupstairs.bsky.social to celebrate 20 issues and 10 years of @bansheepress.bsky.social ✨️ There'll be chats, readings and 🍷

The last year’s worth of published work. Short stories courtesy of @stingingfly.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social and @xraylitmag.bsky.social and my essay on the cinema of Marguerite Duras in @fallowmedia.bsky.social.

Banshee celebrates ten years in print @booksupstairs.bsky.social next Thursday 4 December! Join us from 6pm to raise a glass to the publication of issue 20 and hear from our brilliant contributors. Hosted by guest editor @clarakiyoko.bsky.social 🎄 booksupstairs.ie/all-events/l...

come one, come all! 6-9 tomorrow evening (28th, Fri.) and 10-4 Saturday (29). FREE! bring ten friends and ten euro and make a bunch of small presses really happy

We'll have a stall at this brilliant event in Pearse Street Library tomorrow and Saturday – hope to see you there! 📚

On Wednesday @ucc.ie are hosting an amazing FREE event w/ poets @deanbrowne.bsky.social & @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social. Dean's debut collection After Party is published by @picadorbooks.bsky.social and Rosamund's verse novel Filly by @bansheepress.bsky.social www.eventbrite.ie/e/poets-dean...

We're thrilled to announce the next two poetry books from Banshee Press: Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann (February 2026) and Render by Billy Ramsell (June 2026) 📚 bansheepress.org/read/announc...

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17 languages - love the breadth of this prize and the spotlight it shines on the incredibly enriching work of translators

Delighted the news is out about our next two poetry titles from @bansheepress.bsky.social - new collections from Tim MacGabhann and Billy Ramsell coming your way in 2026 ✨️

Banshee Press has acquired Found in a Context of Destruction, a debut poetry collection from novelist and memoirist Tim MacGabhann, and Render, the third collection from acclaimed poet Billy Ramsell 👇 #BookSky

'My jelly legs are off the couch by grace of Prozac. Four months indoors and the neighbourhood is treason.' From our sold-out issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- poetry by Vasiliki Albedo ⭐ @minorroarr.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/the-sta...

Join us at the Dublin Small Press Fair on November 28th for a discussion on Independent Publishing with: 🌠 Will Dady from @renardpress.com 🌠Eimear Ryan from @bansheepress.bsky.social 🌠Brendan MacEvilly from Holy Show 🌠and chaired by our very own Nidhi Zak / Aria Eipe

Few journals have done more for me and my writing during the past decade, so it is really special to be included in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social which you can order now bansheepress.org/read/introdu...

A wonderful review for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social in @belfasttelegraph.co.uk by James McNaney ✨ m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/weekend...

My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident. #sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social

Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue. ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.

Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social. Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...

Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We'll be in touch in the new year 🎃

Love the cover of the latest @bansheepress.bsky.social issue, their 20th! A fantastic achievement🥂

Accepting work for issue 21 until midnight (IST) 🎃

Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨ irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...

Such an honour to have work in this birthday issue. @bansheepress.bsky.social Congratulations on your 10th birthday 🎂

I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!

Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️

Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚 bansheepress.org/events/cork-...

⭐Shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced⭐ (If you're curious about the submission and judging process, you can find more here 🔽🔽🔽) www.irishbookawards.ie/submissions/ booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlists-f...

Also featuring poems by: Shannan Mann @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social | David McLoghlin | Rafael Mendes | Emma Must | @nessao.bsky.social | Kerri Sonnenberg | @bredaspaight.bsky.social | Anna Szilagyi | David Tom's | Jemma Walsh | Stella Wong Launch details soon ✨️

Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by @colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)

Tomorrow night I'll be headed to Belfast for the last launch of New Arcana. Come join us for poems & chats at No Alibis 🔮✨️ www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bo... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

My dad's fifth anniversary today. 2020 was an appalling year. I've a new poem about grief and its delays in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social journal which you can get here: bansheepress.org/read/introdu...

Congratulations to Banshee on a decade of daring, beauty, and literary brilliance. Here's to the voices you've amplified, the boundaries you've pushed, and the stories still to come.

Favourite short stories that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks. 🧵

Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨ bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of FILLY @bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫