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COVER REVEAL: High Jump as Icarus Story, the stunning debut collection of poetry by Gustav Parker Hibbett, is now available to pre-order!
@gustav_parker
The beautiful cover is by the inimitable
@annabookdesign
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We're thrilled to announce an addition to the Banshee masthead:
@JessicaTraynor6
as poetry editor ✨
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Submissions for issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) are now open until 31 March! See below for submission guidelines. We can't wait to read your work!
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Submissions are open until 31 October for issue
#17
(spring/summer 2024), & we have some exciting news – John Patrick McHugh is joining us as Fiction Editor, while Marie Gethins will guest-edit the flash fiction for issue
#17
@johnpamchugh
@MarieGethins
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Lovely news of a Monday morning! We are so excited & grateful to get this recognition from the
#Nibbies
. Cheers to all our brilliant authors & contributors✨
@CPIGroup_
Congratulations to our Small Press of the Year Winner for the Island of Ireland,
@bansheelit
!🤩
"Its founding team of authors have built a reputation for talent spotting and critically acclaimed output, bringing new voices into Irish culture".
Meet all of our Winners, here:
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Some news! We're very excited to announce the first book to be published by Banshee Press, the debut collection of stories by the ferociously talented Lucy Sweeney Byrne. Due winter 2019 -- stay tuned for updates!
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Proofs of Deirdre Sullivan’s incredible short story collection I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay are making their way out into the world today! Out 13/05/21 ✨
@propermiss
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At Banshee Press we’re thrilled and grateful to receive
@artscouncil_ie
Arts Grant funding for 2023. This will support us to publish exciting new work and celebrate our stellar backlist. More soon 📖
#ArtsCouncilSupported
#ArtsIreland
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We're beyond thrilled to have been named among
@thebookseller
's
#RisingStars
for 2021!
Congratulations to
@bansheelit
's Founders, Laura Cassidy,
@chennessybooks
and
@eimear_ryan
, 2021
#RisingStars
!
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Here comes issue 15 (spring/summer 2023)! Off to the printers and available to pre-order at the link below:
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Submissions for issue 16 (autumn/winter 2023) are open from 1-31 March! We look forward to reading your work 👀
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We're five years in print with this issue! 😭
Banshee issue 10, our bumper autumn/winter 2020 edition, is now available for pre-order!
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We are delighted to announce that the brilliant writers
@JessicaTraynor6
and
@johnpamchugh
are guest-editing Banshee issue 12. Read what JP and Jess are looking for when submissions open in March:
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We were delighted to be profiled in
@CARAMagazine
in a piece on Ireland's small presses. Great to be featured alongside
@TrampPress
@stingingfly
@LilliputPress
@NewIslandBooks
&
@SkeinPress
. Thanks to
@MegWalkerDublin
and photographer Doreen Kilfeather!
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Unbelievable. Despite only being available for the last month, issue 11 (spring/summer 2021) is already sold out. Thank you so much to everyone for reading & subscribing!
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We’re having a wonderful time at our first
#nibbies
, representing the island of Ireland in the Small Press of the Year category!
#BritishBookAwards
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An update: We want to let you know that due to the current crisis, the publication of Banshee issue
#10
(Spring/Summer 2020) has been postponed. We plan instead to publish a bumper edition in September, on the five-year anniversary of Banshee’s first issue.
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Banshee Press will be open for submissions for book-length works of creative non-fiction, by writers from or living in Ireland, between 1-14 February 2021. Guidelines below:
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Great to see the summer issues of Banshee and
@stingingfly
in
@BooksUpstairs
July bestsellers 😍 The support the shop gives to literary journals is incredible.
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Submissions for issue 12 (autumn/winter 2021) are open until 31 March! This issue will be guest-edited by the excellent
@JessicaTraynor6
and
@johnpamchugh
. See below for guidelines!
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Submissions for issue 13 are open from 1-31 October – send us your stories, essays, poetry & flash!
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Now winging its way out to subscribers – Banshee issue 16 (autumn/winter 2023) 🍂
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We're really thrilled to be shortlisted as a Country Finalist in the Small Press of the Year category at the British Book Awards, along with
@NewIslandBooks
@MerrionPress
@LittleIslandBks
and
@LilliputPress
🥳Thanks to our brilliant writers & readers!
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'It is a strange legacy of colonialism that Irish skips generations in my family – divides us into those who can, can no longer, and don’t speak Irish. Many of my memories are in a language I do not share with my parents.' From issue 13 by
@RA_Costello
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Cover reveal! We’re so excited to announce Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne, the first book from Banshee Press.
Labelling literature and getting on with it: Banshee journal publishes its first book via
@IrishTimesCultr
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Some exciting news! The next book from Banshee Press will be a poetry debut: Gold Light Shining by the immensely talented Bebe Ashley, coming 22 October 2020. Read more about the book & pre-order here:
@bebeashley95
/ cover by
@annabookdesign
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Issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018) will be available in September - here's a sneak peek of the cover!
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Hello all! Do please join us here, or over on Instagram (where we're at banshee dot lit) this Thursday (22nd April) between 8pm-9pm (GMT) - for a launch/chat about Issue 11, where contributors will share insights about & snippets from the new issue.
#banshee11
🎉✒️
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Introducing issue
#9
.5, our first online issue, feat.
@ConorCrummey
,
@johnkellytweets
,
@VKennefick
,
@tilly_nevin
,
@motter8132
, Billy Ramsell,
@rachelmsargent
,
@daithitoms
,
@JessicaTraynor6
,
@tom_vowler
&
@HannahWhiteoak
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Submissions for issue 17 (spring/summer 2024) are open until midnight IST tonight. Click below for submission guidelines! 🎃
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Submissions are now open for Banshee issue
#10
(spring/summer 2020). Send us your stories, essays, poems and flashes by 31 October - we can't wait to read! More details here:
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Banshee issue 10, our bumper autumn/winter 2020 edition, is now available for pre-order!
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We're excited to reveal the cover for IN HER JAWS, the stunning debut collection by
@RosamundTaylor
, coming May 2022. Now available to pre-order ✨
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We are so excited to reveal our Banshee Press titles for 2022: IN HER JAWS, a stunning poetry debut from Rosamund Taylor, and PACEMAKER, a moving memoir from David Toms. More details soon 📚
@RosamundTaylor
@daithitoms
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Just a few days left to submit to Banshee issue 18 – send us your work by midnight on Sunday ✨
Submissions for issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) are now open until 31 March! See below for submission guidelines. We can't wait to read your work!
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We're very pleased to welcome guest editors
@Molly_Hennigan
and
@RosamundTaylor
to the Banshee masthead for issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024). Submissions open 1 March! 🔥
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We are also thrilled to announce that Marie Gethins has joined the Banshee masthead as Flash Fiction Editor going forward, following her guest-editing stint. Welcome to the team
@MarieGethins
!
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'When I speak of the bread queues during the Thatcher years, of the millions below poverty line, many people are surprised that:
1. they existed;
2. I want to talk about it.'
Read the full text of ER Murray's brilliant issue 8 essay, Appetite:
@ERMurray
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COVER REVEAL: I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay by Deirdre Sullivan, out 13/05/21
Stories by
@propermiss
/ design by
@annabookdesign
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Submissions for issue 11 are open until 31 October -- send us your stories, essays, poetry & flash!
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Our first three issues (sold out in print) are now available to read online for free:
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Banshee issue 11 (spring/summer 2021) is now available to pre-order!
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Congratulations to our Fiction Editor
@johnpamchugh
on his appointment as
@uniofgalway
@artscouncil_ie
Writer in Residence for 2024!
We are pleased to share 2024 Writer-in-Residence/Fellowships!
Aingeala Flannery & Muireann Ní Chíobháin (Irish lang)
@DCU
Michèle Forbes
@MaynoothUni
John Patrick McHugh
@uniofgalway
Catherine Prasifka
@tcddublin
Ian Maleney
@UCC
Colin Barrett
@ucddublin
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"Banshee lives up to its reputation as the thinking young Irishwoman's go-to read" Thrilled with this great review of issue
#5
in the
@IrishArtsReview
, mentioning pieces by Louise Hegarty, Cathy Sweeney,
@sweetoblivion26
@isobelohare
@NualaNiC
@MsEmmaWinter
and Elizabeth O'Neill.
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Exciting news! We have some incredible new books coming your way from
@gustav_parker
(July 2024), Lucy Sweeney Byrne (October 2024) and
@clairelise_poet
(spring 2025) 🔥
.
@bansheelit
has landed High Jump as Icarus Story, the debut poetry collection from
@gustav_parker
, Let's Dance, a short story collection from Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Tenterhooks, the debut short story collection from Claire-Lise Kieffer 👇
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Our submissions period for issue 14 opens tomorrow! Send us your work by 31 October for our spring issue. Guidelines below:
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Our cow cover made Vogue! ✨ Lovely to be mentioned here alongside brilliant Irish writers & editors
@sineadgleeson
@STomaselli
@sallyrooney
@emiliepine
@JanCarson7280
@nicoleflattery
@beingvarious
@WednesdayErskin
@SwearyLady
A spate of spring releases is poised to shine a light on the exciting new literary talent hailing from Ireland.
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We've just finalised issue
#6
, due out in March ... really excited to share it with you all!
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Best of 2021 - the stories, poems, essays and other short forms that stayed with our editors and contributors this year. ❄️
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Banshee issue 16 (autumn/winter 2023) is coming soon!
Issue 16 features fiction from
@worsdaleje
@dean_fee_
@rosielanners
@PatrickFreyne1
@NiamhDonnelly
@MayaKulukundis
& Gráinne O'Toole (1/4)
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We're thrilled that Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize!
We are pleased to announce the longlist for the 2020 Edge Hill Prize for a single authored collection of short stories. Congrats to all our writers and publishers.
@thebookseller
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The Irish literary journal scene is flourishing for many reasons, not least because
@MartinDoyleIT
has been championing and platforming many of its publications for years. Wonderful to see the first of two lit mag review essays from Mei Chin in today’s
@IrishTimesBooks
!
Stinging Fly, The Pig’s Back, Tolka and Paper Lanterns brim with excellent fiction of inclusivity and ambition, writes Mei Chin in the first of two review essays on Irish literary magazines
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PENELOPE UNBOUND, the stunning new novel by Mary Morrissy, is back from the printers & available for pre-order! Out 05/10/23 ✨
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Thrilled with the beautiful finished copies of Deirdre Sullivans’s stunning short story collection, I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay. We’re so proud of this book! Coming soon to bookshops & postboxes near you ✨
.
@propermiss
/
@annabookdesign
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Gorgeous signed and numbered
@KennysBookshop
exclusive limited edition hardbacks of I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay by Deirdre Sullivan are available to pre-order! A really beautiful object.
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We’ve voted YES and are looking forward to a day of chatting to writers at the National Day for Writers in IMMA with
@WordsIreland
📚 ✍️
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Banshee Press will be open for submissions for book-length works of prose (fiction or nonfiction), by writers from or living in Ireland, from 15-30 November 2021. Full guidelines here:
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Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne, the first book from Banshee Press, is published today 🎉Available from Ireland’s wonderful bookshops and directly from our website. Launch Sept 12th in
@Hodges_Figgis
and all are welcome!
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What a phenomenal shortlist. Huge congrats to our author
@RosamundTaylor
and our poetry editor
@JessicaTraynor6
on being shortlisted for the Poetry Prize 2023! 🔥🥳
@lcollins232
, chair of judging Panel for The Poetry Prize 2023 announces the shortlist at the
#Yeats
Building on
#yeatsday
. Congrats to all six and to their publishers.
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Submissions for issue
#10
(Spring/Summer 2020) are now closed. Thanks so much to everyone who sent us work. We received 1000 submissions, our biggest number yet, and can't wait to start reading!
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This wonderful poem appeared in Banshee issue 1! Class to see it on the LC paper – congrats
@VKennefick
🔥
Congratulations
@VKennefick
. I hear your Guest Room was the unseen poem on the LC Paper 2 today. That must feel like quite the red letter/paper day!
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Introducing Pacemaker by
@daithitoms
, a beautiful memoir publishing 15/09/22, now available for pre-order. Cover by
@annabookdesign
💙
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Congratulations are in order again for the brilliant Lucy Sweeney Byrne, shortlisted for the
#DalkeyLiteraryAwards
Emerging Writer category
@dalkeybookfest
! Great prize and a strong shortlist, with independent publishing and short stories well represented:
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Celebrating 70 years of
@artscouncil_ie
today. Their early and continued support has been fundamental to Banshee Press and the publishers who inspired us.
#ArtsCouncilat70
🎉
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Pssst ... subs for Banshee issue
#14
(autumn/winter 2022) are open until Saturday 30 April. Guidelines here:
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Team Banshee at
@BelfastBookFest
for our event with
@thetangerinemag
&
@stingingfly
@ClaraKiyoko
@propermiss
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Issue 17 (spring/summer 2024) has gone to print & will be in the post to subscribers very soon!
Issue 16 features fiction from
@tom_roseingrave
Jeanne Sutton
@lilysimage
Katy Finnegan
@RoisinMCoyle
& Alex Aspden (1/4)
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Hello all & WELCOME to our virtual launch for issue 11 of the journal! Over the next hour we'll be posting prompts for our contributors - and readers too! - so please do join in. You can follow the conversation by using the hashtag:
#banshee11
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In tremendous company here! Huge thanks to
@thebookseller
for this recognition ✨
#Nibbies
@CPIGroup_
@UEAPublishing
@dedalusbooks
@SRLPublishing
Introducing our finalists from the Island of Ireland
@bansheelit
,
@LilliputPress
,
@LittleIslandBks
and
@irishpages
🎉
Read more about our finalists, here:
#Nibbies
#BritishBookAwards
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We're thrilled to be launching issue
#7
at the Cork Short Story Festival. Join us on Friday 14 September for readings by contributors
@mormonhorse
, Diarmuid Hickey,
@missmarymcgill
&
@tom_vowler
>>
@MunLitCentre
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Happy New Year! Thanks for supporting Banshee Press in 2019, stay tuned for exciting news in 2020 🎉
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Banshee
#17
is out now & available via our website and wonderful stockists
@BooksUpstairs
@Hodges_Figgis
@LilliputPress
@WaterstonesCrk
@ravenbooks
@Winding_Stair
@WoodbineBooks
@TLP_says
@voidartcentre
@ByrnesBooks
@Banner_Books
&
@DubrayBooks
(Cork). This one is selling fast!
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"Many of last year’s biggest break-out books came from the small press finalists, including Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy at Banshee Press (Island of Ireland)" 😍📚
“The vast majority of publishers on this shortlist reported list and sales growth, alongside many successful funding applications, with investment put into both authors and their businesses” 👇
#Nibbies
#BritishBookAwards
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The wonderful
@sineadgleeson
’s stunning debut Constellations launches today. The essay ‘Hair’ from the collection was the first piece in Banshee’s first issue! Congratulations Sinéad, we’re so excited for you!
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A reminder that submissions for our autumn/winter issue close at midnight on Friday ✍️
Submissions for issue 16 (autumn/winter 2023) are open from 1-31 March! We look forward to reading your work 👀
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We & our authors have lots of great events coming up this year, so we've added an events page to the website. Watch this space – lots more to be added soon!
@WorldBookFest
@MunLitCentre
@WritersWeek
@wcorklitfest
@gustav_parker
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We’re so proud to have published the brilliant Louise Kennedy’s story ‘Sparing the Heather’ in Banshee issue
#8
- now longlisted for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. Congratulations to Louise and all the longlisted writers.
@KennedyLoulou
@ShortStoryAward
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Submissions for issue
#8
are open from today until 31 October! Send us your fiction, poetry & essays. More info here:
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We're thrilled to see Louise Kennedy nominated for the An Post Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year award for 'Sparing the Heather', published in Banshee issue
#8
! Congrats
@KennedyLoulou
and the other shortlisted writers.
#AnPostIBAS
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Banshee issue 12 (autumn/winter 2021), guest edited by
@johnpamchugh
and
@JessicaTraynor6
, is now available to pre-order:
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Our Best of 2019 reading list is now up at the website -- thanks to all our contributors who submitted their favourite stories, essays and poems of the year!
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Our multi-talented co-founder Eimear Ryan’s wonderful debut novel ‘Holding Her Breath’ is published by
@PenguinIEBooks
TODAY! We are so excited and proud, congratulations
@eimear_ryan
🌊 ❤️
Delighted to have
@eimear_ryan
visit the shop to sign copies of her stunning debut novel ‘holding her breath’
@PenguinIEBooks
#irishwriters
#irishpublishing
#holdingherbreath
#debutnovel
#lovebooks
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🖋️🎉
We're open for book submissions later this month:
- writers should be based in or from Ireland
- first-time writers & experienced writers equally welcome
- prose only (fiction or non-fiction)
More details here at the link!
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We're so proud of
#5
.... poems that awed us, stories that wowed us, essays that stunned us, flash fiction that enchanted us. ❤️
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It's a great year for new Irish writers! We're proud to have published four of these brilliant debut authors in Banshee –
@RebeccaIvory93
(issue 11), Ferdia Lennon (issue 12),
@ois_mck
(issue 13) and
@MaggieStrongarm
(issue 15) 🔥
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Delighted to be included in this wonderful company – congrats all✨
Our finalists from the Isle of Ireland are
@bansheelit
,
@LittleIslandBks
,
@LilliputPress
and
@newislandbooks
!
#BritishBookAwards
#Nibbies
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The
@bansheelit
book list is now available on all major ebook platforms, in addition to print, with new titles coming soon 🤩
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Happy 20th Birthday to
@stingingfly
! A wonderful launch for Stinging Fly Stories which features our own
@eimear_ryan
and Banshee contributors
@NualaNiC
, Cathy Sweeney and Lucy Sweeney Byrne.
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Dublin launch details! Join us on Thursday April 11th at 6.30pm in the beautiful
@Winding_Stair
to celebrate the launch of issue
#8
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Dublin launch of
#Pacemaker
by
@daithitoms
, especially to
@oneflawediris
for doing the honours,
@Hodges_Figgis
for hosting us and
@GHollandPhoto
for the fabulous photos 💙 (1/4)
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So excited to celebrate Mary Morrissy's superb novel
#PenelopeUnbound
in
@WaterstonesCrk
– this evening at 7pm! 🥳
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This Bloomsday, we're thrilled to reveal the cover for our next book – PENELOPE UNBOUND, a stunning new novel from renowned writer Mary Morrissy, which plots a alternative path for its famous heroine, Norah Barnacle
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#ParisSyndrome
is back from the printers and she's an absolute beaut! So proud to be publishing this outstanding collection of stories by Lucy Sweeney Byrne. Out 5 September 2019!
#bansheepress
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‘Holding Her Breath’ the stunning debut novel from our co-founder
@eimear_ryan
is coming in June 2021! Congratulations Eimear!🔥
Sandycove is delighted to announce the acquisition of a stunning new debut novel ‘Holding Her Breath’ by the very talented
@eimear_ryan
. It is available to pre-order here
@easons
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