Join us at Dublin Book Festival 2026 for an event with poets looking at experiences of girlhood and womanhood

We hope you can join us in Dublin to celebrate the publication of the debut poetry collection from acclaimed author Tim MacGabhann, Found in a Context of Destruction . On Thursday 12 February…

Sometimes the hardest thing to buy for a bookworm is a regular novel, biography or history book. Here's a selection of bookish gift ideas that go beyond the norm

Per Literary Hub tradition, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 52 designers to share their fa…

Try to praise Instead of counting the minutes until morning, I tried learning a poem, one I’d heard a few weeks before. There were no amulets for protection, just some books and a framed photo…

Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Dublin launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at Books Upstairs on Thursday 4 December at 6pm to raise a glass and to hear prose and poetry ...

For Fine Gael, the small number awaiting deportation is proof inward migration has become ‘too high’

Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

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…

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…

In Association with Durabeds From parish pride to All-Ireland glory, the GAA has shaped the cultural heartbeat of Ireland for over a century. This lively panel brings together sports journalist Stephe...

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

When a honeybee bumps against glass, and silences noise your room, when masonry settles and a knock at the door is harm, when your fingertips bleed and you cannot let go, when your boat arrives…

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…

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…

Join us for a celebration of Bebe Ashley's second poetry collection published by Banshee Press which explores sign language and longing.

A guide to James Joyce from Irish writer Mary Morrissy, ahead of Bloomsday (16 June); New Zealand writer Becky Manawatu continues to explore howls of pain and compassion in her second novel, Kataraina...

I’ve carried you down into the hall and painted you again on a six-foot canvas, your right toe testing the waters of a pool in blues so dense they’ve hollowed a place on the linen threads, …

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. You can begin by forgetting yourself. Discard the name, th...

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's has announced the shortlist for the 2025 Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies.

128 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-17-6