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Bebe Ashley – @bebeashley.bsky.social – reads from and talks about Harbour Doubts on last Sunday's episode of Poetry People on RTE Radio 1: www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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'I have layered you onto the canvas, full magentas and yellows and pinks, then scraped you away – pared back to some essential silence.' From issue 7 (autumn/winter 2018), poetry by Jane Robinson: bansheepress.org/read/standin...

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Listen to this brilliant interview with Mary Morrissy about #PenelopeUnbound and Bloomsday on The Bookshelf on ABC Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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We hope you can join us for the launch of HARBOUR DOUBTS by @bebeashley.bsky.social‬ on Thursday 26 June at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast! It starts at 6pm with the excellent Dawn Watson introducing Bebe's reading. All are welcome! ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

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The mighty SoundEye Festival returns to Cork in July. I won't make it, but you can. I'll be there in pamphlet form! Details: soundeye.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/s...

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Very glad to have first glimpse of my essay 'Beach Trip to Gaza', in the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social.

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'There is nothing. It’s the body without being, and being without a body the nothing is limitless. Flesh turned to pixels, being is malleable.' From issue 18 (now sold out), 'New Game / Options / Quit', a personal essay by @clairiefairie.bsky.social bansheepress.org/read/new-gam...

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Delighted to see @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social has a new poetry collection due out in autumn🍂, published by @bansheepress.bsky.social

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Congratulations to @gphibbett.bsky.social‬ on their latest triumph: High Jump as Icarus Story has been shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection! We're so proud of the incredible impact that this book has made ✨ www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

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So honored to be part of this w/my (little) whale of a story!🐋I'll be watching the mail for my summer reading! Big thanks to @mariegethins.bsky.social & team for including me w/some of my favorite writers: @sudhab.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @shanejlarkin.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social

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A long held dream to be in @bansheepress.bsky.social, delighted! 🌟

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BANSHEE 19 POETS 1 Campbell McGrath| Alex Wong| Cal O'Reilly |Emily R. Daniel | @eoghancarrick.bsky.social | @oliviaheggarty.bsky.social | Lesley-Anne Evans | Adamu Yahuza Abdullahi @usuallyolive.bsky.social | @annpedone.bsky.social |

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A super issue with some amazing flash fiction by @sudhab.bsky.social @laurabesley.bsky.social @shanejlarkin.bsky.social @sgscarso.bsky.social @amygcb.bsky.social

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I couldn't be more thrilled to be included in Issue 19 of @bansheepress.bsky.social alongside some flash greats! Huge thanks to @mariegethins.bsky.social & the whole team for taking such good care of my words. #fiction #flashfiction #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Absolutely over the moon to have my poem ‘Story’ included in Banshee Issue 19 ✨💫 Huge thanks to @jesstraynor.bsky.social and all the @bansheepress.bsky.social team ❤️❤️❤️

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Delighted to have a story in this lovely thing, big thanks @bansheepress.bsky.social @mariegethins.bsky.social and all the Banshees 🌙

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So excited and honoured to be in this issue with some fantastic writers!

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The latest Banshee (19) is on its way: and I'm very glad it carries my new essay 'Beach Trip to Gaza'. Many thanks to editors @mollyh.bsky.social Molly Hennigan and Eimear Ryan. @bansheepress.bsky.social

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Issue 19 (spring/summer 2025) is gone to print! View the contents and pre-order your copy at the link in bio 😎 bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...

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Thank you so much to @bansheepress.bsky.social for publishing this story and @mariegethins.bsky.social for wonderful editing on it!

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Huge applause for the talented writers @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social & @atrodd.bsky.social We are really honoured and lucky to first publish these wonderful flashes.

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Delighted to be included in the 2025 Best Small Fictions Anthology with 'Jewel Bearing'. Thanks to the folks @bansheepress.bsky.social for putting it forward and to the @altcurrent.bsky.social team for selecting it 🙏 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-fic… #flashfiction #WritingCommunity #shortstories

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Fantastic to see flash fiction by Banshee contributors @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social and @atrodd.bsky.social included in Best Small Fictions 2025! @altcurrent.bsky.social Congrats to Chloe and Adam and to our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social 💫 altcurrentpress.com/best-small-f...

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The deadline for the Creative Writing Award to celebrate the literary life of the late Molly Keane is this Monday 19th, May at 12 noon 🤍💙🤍💙. It's one of the few awards with no entry fee for an unpublished short story 🥳🫶. waterford.submit.com/show/257?utm... @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social

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A lovely trio of winners for the Farmagate Poetry Prizes led by Victoria Kennefick's gorgeous Egg/Shell & with a joint win for @gphibbett.bsky.social & @michaeldooley.bsky.social for their debuts. Delighted for all involved! @bansheepress.bsky.social @doirepress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

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An honour to have co-won the Southword Debut Poetry Collection Award with the magnificent Parker Hibbett. My thanks to the judges, to @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social, and to J&L @doirepress.bsky.social. Warmest congratulations to Victoria on winning the Farmgate. www.corkpoetryfest.net/awards.html

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Incredible news! We're over the moon for Gustav Parker Hibbett and @bansheepress.bsky.social 🎉👏

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Soooo delighted for Parker & to see this beautiful collection soar 💛🧡

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Gustav Parker Hibbett is the winner of the John Pollard International Poetry Prize! Congratulations Parker!! 💛🧡 Judge Eoin McNamee said of High Jump as Icarus Story: 'At once exalted and humble this is work of the highest order.' @gphibbett.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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In prep for work this week & getting to chill with Gustav Parker Hibbett I took to the garden today to revisit their debut poetry collection, High Jump as Icarus Story, published by @bansheepress.bsky.social I think this might be as close to perfection as a debut can be ✨

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April 2025 is Poetry month in Limerick. For Poetry month we will have a reading each week celebrating Nature. Our last of 4 readings is Gustav Parker Hibbett reading Inis Meáin from the collection High Jump as Icarus Story. Watch here: youtube.com/shorts/5xl82... @gphibbett.bsky.social

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New episode of The Glimpse! @gphibbett.bsky.social chats with Seán Hewitt about about metamorphosis poems, trusting the rhythm of the body, and more. They read their poem “Joni Mitchell dresses up as me" and @donikakelly.bsky.social's "Love Poem: Chimera." Listen now! www.brinkerhoffpoetr...

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We're thrilled that High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett has been shortlisted for the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award! Great to see lots of Banshee contributors & friends on the shortlist too 💛 🧡 munsterlitcentre.bsky.social munsterlit.ie/farmgate/

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'At six o’clock one August evening we slipped over the kitchen window sill to a cracked terrace where the gardener had been off-duty since Independence.' From issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) – poetry by Richard Hawtree bansheepress.org/read/indepen...

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There's no point being delighted that small Irish journals, small Irish presses and lots of Irish writers are doing as well as they are without recognising the invaluable role of local and independent bookshops across Ireland! Using Amazon[dot]ie will actively work against this.

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FIRST LOOK: Harbour Doubts, the prizewinning second collection of poems by Bebe Ashley, out 03/07/25 ✨ @bebeashley.bsky.social 'Sinuous poems full of power' – Rosamund Taylor @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social Cover by Jack Smyth @jackflag.bsky.social bansheepress.org/shop/p/harbo...

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The best of publishing folk and our fabulous writer in residence, Molly Hennigan (and JP and Jess in past years!) If you’re about Galway — go visit them @uniofgalway.bsky.social @bansheepress.bsky.social

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Congratulations, @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ! and Banshee Press. Can’t wait to read the new book.

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@bansheepress.bsky.social 2025 titles announcement day! 🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to share Harbour Doubts, a new collection by @bebeashley.bsky.social & Filly, a novel in verse by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social with you all!

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Great news day for Irish poetry 🤌💕😍

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We're very excited to publish new work from @bebeashley.bsky.social and @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social later this year! 📚 bansheepress.org/read/announc...

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Really lovely to have work included here in such brilliant company ✨️

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Submissions for issue 20, our tenth anniversary issue, are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work – you'll hear back from us in the summer ✨

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Last day to send me your poems for issue 20!

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Here's the second installment of my series on writing poetry for @rte.ie featuring beetles, bad dreams and Mr Ben. 🪲 www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

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'@ImYourMan he called himself. She liked it, liked the reference to Leonard Cohen and the playful tone of the username. She thought she detected a romantic soul in the photos he had up' From issue 17: fiction by Katy Finnegan 🌷 bansheepress.org/read/bl0ss0m...

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Still open for non-fiction submissions for our next issue. Submission window closes end of March!

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