Banshee Press
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Banshee Press is an independent publisher in Ireland, founded in 2014. Banshee releases a journal twice a year and since 2019 has published books by writers who previously featured in the journal.[1][2]
The publisher was listed in The Bookseller's list of rising stars for 2021.[3]
Banshee journal
The Banshee journal was founded in 2014 by Claire Hennessy, Eimear Ryan (Irish author)|Eimear Ryan, and Laura Cassidy following an online conversation[4]. After a successful Kickstarter campaign where the target was hit in three days[5] the first edition of the journal was published in Autumn/Winter [6] The first edition included works by Sinéad Gleeson, Jessica Traynor, and Deirdre Sullivan among others and featured an interview with Nuala Ní Chonchúir.
As a journal founded by three women, Banshee receives more submissions and publishes more work from female writers than many literary magazines, although this is not intentional. In an interview for the Bath Flash Fiction Award in 2017.
Banshee Press
The Banshee Press list launched in 2019 and has published seven titles to date. Its first title was Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne, collection of autofiction short stories[7]. Reviewing the collection for the Irish Times, Sarah Gilmartin remarked "it is easy to see why Banshee – an up-and-coming literary magazine with a strong feminist bent – has chosen Paris Syndrome as its first book for publication. It is a commendable debut with plenty of hallucinations, anxious sweating and little in the way of extreme ennui"[8].
List of books published by Banshee Press
- Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy (2023)
- Let the Dead by Dylan Brennan (2023)
- Pacemaker by David Toms (2022)
- In Her Jaws by Rosamund Taylor (2022)
- I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay by Deirdre Sullivan (2021)
- Gold Light Shining by Bebe Ashley (2020)
- Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne (2019)
References
- ↑ "About". Banshee Press. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ↑ "Banshee Press Archives". Publishing Ireland. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ "Rising Stars". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ↑ "Why Ireland's literary journals are brilliant stepping stones for emerging writers". Independent.ie. 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2023-08-13.
- ↑ Morrissy, Mary (2023-03-13). "Words of wonder: A look behind the scenes of Ireland's thriving literary magazines". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ https://www.rte.ie/culture/2016/1219/839912-the-new-wave-of-irish-literary-journals/
- ↑ Dec 6 2020, Anna Blackburn |. "OTwo Interviews: Banshee Press". University Observer. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- ↑ "Paris Syndrome: Pushing boundaries to document experience". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
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