Banshee Lit

30/09/2025

Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚

Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!

Banshee Press will be accepting book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps beyond). Who can submit: All previous contributors to the journal All writers from Ireland

26/09/2025

We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by Rosamund Taylor on Wednesday 15 October at Books Upstairs in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor Jessica Traynor introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨

We hope you can join us to raise a glass to Filly , the beautiful new verse novel by acclaimed poet Rosamund Taylor, in Books Upstairs on Wednesday 15 October! Banshee poetry editor Jessica Traynor will introduce Rosamund’s reading. All are welcome – we look forward to seeing you there!

18/09/2025

"The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It throbbed at me every morning in the bathroom mirror, and I was always aware when people stared at it."

From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) -- fiction by Niall McArdle 💕

The birthmark was small but unmissable, a heart-shaped rash-red bump placed precisely over the pulse on the right side of my neck. ‘She has her heart in her throat,’ my mother always said. It throbbed at me every morning in the bathroom mirror, and I was always aware when people stared at it. Di...

30/08/2025

'When a honeybee bumps against glass,
and silences noise your room,
when masonry settles
and a knock at the door is harm ...'

'When You Unravel' by Eleanor Ho**er – poetry from issue 9 (autumn/winter 2019) 🧵

https://bansheepress.org/read/when-you-unravel-by-eleanor-hooker

22/08/2025

Banshee Press will open for book submissions from 1-15 October. More details to follow soon. Ready your manuscripts! 📝

Banshee Press will be accepting book-length submissions of fiction, poetry and memoir from 1-15 October 2025 . All submitted manuscripts will be considered for our 2027 and 2028 lists (and perhaps beyond). Who can submit: All previous contributors to the journal All writers from Ireland

14/08/2025

'There is a halo of yellow far off, where green meets the zone of habitation. Boughs and branches move, leaves seethe and shiver. The night has its mouths.'

From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) -- fiction by David Hayden 🌔

https://bansheepress.org/read/taints-by-david-hayden

08/08/2025

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨

248 pages Paperback 9 October 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2

27/07/2025

Some exciting news: FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's beautiful forthcoming novel-in-verse, is now available for pre-order from Waterstones.com at 25% off RRP. This offer is available until midnight on 31 July. Just enter the code SUMMER25 at checkout!

https://www.waterstones.com/book/filly/rosamund-taylor/9781739397982

23/07/2025

First look: the gorgeous cover of FILLY, Rosamund Taylor's stunning novel-in-verse, coming from Banshee Press in October 2025. Cover photography by Oana Stoian, with design by Jack Smyth ✨

Though ten years have passed
since I swayed on the musty train
on the way to school,
as sun broke its yolk over the strand,

my stomach tenses when I stand there,
metal pole in my hand, and I hear
an echo of Mrs Wall’s voice
saying the two syllables of my name –

Orla – as sharp as the rush
of salt air when the doors open
at Booterstown.

11/07/2025

'the air tastes like bronze. A slow procession
of soft wool ties, red, greet her along the tracks
under Arts et Métiers. Herein lies the entire history
of gold, dancing in her irises.'

From issue 8 (spring/summer 2019) – poetry by Ingrid Casey 👑

the air tastes like bronze. A slow procession of soft wool ties, red, greet her along the tracks under Arts et Métiers . Herein lies the entire history of gold, dancing in her irises. Her mouth teems with flakes, both Paleolithic caves and Celtic tiger-fish. Some talked about Havilah and this is w

05/07/2025

'The jewellery set arrives on your thirteenth birthday, the official transition from playing with dolls to planning what to name your children.'

From issue 18 (autumn/winter 2024) – flash fiction by Anita Goveas 💎

The jewellery set arrives on your thirteenth birthday, the official transition from playing with dolls to planning what to name your children. Your nana is so traditional, Mother says laughingly, no one in this country will ask for dowry. It’s made of sparkles and stones that look like fire, and y...