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Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
248 pages Paperback 9 October 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2
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Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨
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My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident.
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My poem, "Yesterday's Men," appears in issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) of Banshee. Inspired by a little health scare earlier this year & a purely domestic accident.
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
#sex #death #nowandthen #poetry @bansheepress.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jessicatraynor.bsky.social @stefanflanigan.bsky.social
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Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Delighted to have received my contributor’s copy of @bansheepress.bsky.social’s 20th issue.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
ECHOES ON THE SEA is the final piece in the anthology — a post-Lovecraftian story about failing to end the world. Many thanks to @clarakiyoko.bsky.social for her excellent edits here. I’m proud of this one.
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Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.
Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
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are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.
Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
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Writing the Body - Dublin Book Festival
Joining our panel are poet and essayist Gustav Parker Hibbett whose debut collection High Jump as Icarus Story won the 2025 John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, Sam Furlong whose just-p...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Joining this knockout panel as part of this year's @dublinbookfest.bsky.social
are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.
Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...
are Gustav Parker Hibbett, Sam Furlong and Sophie White in conversation with @mollytwomey.bsky.social.
Saturday 08th November @ 11:30 am
@irishwriterscentre.bsky.social
dublinbookfestival.com/event/writin...
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We'll be in touch in the new year 🎃
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work. We'll be in touch in the new year 🎃
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Love the cover of the latest @bansheepress.bsky.social issue, their 20th! A fantastic achievement🥂
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Love the cover of the latest @bansheepress.bsky.social issue, their 20th! A fantastic achievement🥂
Accepting work for issue 21 until midnight (IST) 🎃
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
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Submit — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October. We are also accepting submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) until 31 October!
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October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Accepting work for issue 21 until midnight (IST) 🎃
Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨
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October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Starting Tuesday – a fantastic 4-week online course with our flash fiction editor @mariegethins.bsky.social at @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social ✨
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/flas...
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Such an honour to have work in this birthday issue. @bansheepress.bsky.social Congratulations on your 10th birthday 🎂
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Such an honour to have work in this birthday issue. @bansheepress.bsky.social Congratulations on your 10th birthday 🎂
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I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!
October 30, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I was sorry to have missed the launch of the brilliant @bansheepress.bsky.social tonight. What they've given us in a decade!
Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
Submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) are open until 31 October! Submission guidelines are at the link below. We're looking forward to reading your short fiction, poetry, flash & essays! ✨
bansheepress.org/submit
bansheepress.org/submit
Submit — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October. We are also accepting submissions for issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) until 31 October!
bansheepress.org
October 27, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Submissions for issue 21 are open until midnight IST on Friday 31 October ✍️
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Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Profound dignity throughout the poems in “In Her Jaws”, lighting a way through trauma towards persistence & survival. Loving, too, learning about women I hadn’t known of before liked Caroline Herschel and Dora Richter #amreading @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social
Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
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Cork launch of Banshee issue 20 — Banshee Press
Celebrate ten years of Banshee at the Cork launch of our speculative fiction-themed 20th issue. Join us at the Staff Common Room in the Quad, UCC , on Thursday 30 October at 6pm to raise a glass ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Join us next Thursday 30 October in @ucc.ie at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Banshee issue 20! Hear readings from our brilliant contributors and raise a glass to ten years of Banshee 📚
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
bansheepress.org/events/cork-...
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⭐Shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced⭐
(If you're curious about the submission and judging process, you can find more here 🔽🔽🔽)
www.irishbookawards.ie/submissions/
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(If you're curious about the submission and judging process, you can find more here 🔽🔽🔽)
www.irishbookawards.ie/submissions/
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Shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards - Books Ireland
The shortlists have been revealed for the A Post Irish Book Awards 2025.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
⭐Shortlists for the An Post Irish Book Awards have been announced⭐
(If you're curious about the submission and judging process, you can find more here 🔽🔽🔽)
www.irishbookawards.ie/submissions/
booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlists-f...
(If you're curious about the submission and judging process, you can find more here 🔽🔽🔽)
www.irishbookawards.ie/submissions/
booksirelandmagazine.com/shortlists-f...
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Also featuring poems by: Shannan Mann @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social | David McLoghlin | Rafael Mendes | Emma Must | @nessao.bsky.social | Kerri Sonnenberg | @bredaspaight.bsky.social | Anna Szilagyi | David Tom's | Jemma Walsh | Stella Wong
Launch details soon ✨️
Launch details soon ✨️
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Also featuring poems by: Shannan Mann @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social | David McLoghlin | Rafael Mendes | Emma Must | @nessao.bsky.social | Kerri Sonnenberg | @bredaspaight.bsky.social | Anna Szilagyi | David Tom's | Jemma Walsh | Stella Wong
Launch details soon ✨️
Launch details soon ✨️
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Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by
@colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
@colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
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Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
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October 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Introducing Banshee 20 poets! We're delighted to be featuring work by
@colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
@colmbrennan.bsky.social | @hettycliss.bsky.social | Polina Cosgrave | @satyadash.bsky.social | Stephen de Búrca | @michaeldooley.bsky.social | Malcolm Greenlee Farley | @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social | Finn Dunne Leavy (1/2)
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Tomorrow night I'll be headed to Belfast for the last launch of New Arcana. Come join us for poems & chats at No Alibis 🔮✨️
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October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Tomorrow night I'll be headed to Belfast for the last launch of New Arcana. Come join us for poems & chats at No Alibis 🔮✨️
www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bo...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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My dad's fifth anniversary today. 2020 was an appalling year. I've a new poem about grief and its delays in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social journal which you can get here:
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October 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My dad's fifth anniversary today. 2020 was an appalling year. I've a new poem about grief and its delays in the 20th issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social journal which you can get here:
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
bansheepress.org/read/introdu...
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Congratulations to Banshee on a decade of daring, beauty, and literary brilliance. Here's to the voices you've amplified, the boundaries you've pushed, and the stories still to come.
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
bansheepress.org
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Congratulations to Banshee on a decade of daring, beauty, and literary brilliance. Here's to the voices you've amplified, the boundaries you've pushed, and the stories still to come.
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Favourite short stories that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Favourite short stories that I’ve read in the last couple of weeks.
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Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
Issue 20 | Autumn/Winter 2025 — Banshee Press
Guest edited by Clara Kumagai 154 pages ISSN: 2009-857X ISBN: 978-1-917161-18-3 Cover art by Erin Connally
bansheepress.org
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Issue 20 (autumn/winter 2025) has gone to print! Our landmark 20th issue, guest edited by acclaimed author @clarakiyoko.bsky.social, has a speculative fiction theme and marks our tenth anniversary in print. The beautiful cover art is by @erinconnally.bsky.social ✨
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
bansheepress.org/shop/p/issue...
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@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫
Book submissions to Banshee Press are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work – you'll hear back from us within six months ✨
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for 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…
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October 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Book submissions to Banshee Press are now closed! Thanks to all who sent us work – you'll hear back from us within six months ✨
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Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
We hope you can join us for the launch of FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social on Wednesday 15 October at @booksupstairs.bsky.social in Dublin! It kicks off at 6pm with Banshee poetry editor @jesstraynor.bsky.social introducing Rosamund. All are welcome! ✨
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Celebrate the launch of Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press
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…
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October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Tonight - please join us to celebrate this brilliant book ✨️
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🚨Last day to send your manuscript!🚨
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October! 📚
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Guidelines are at the link below. We look forward to reading your work!
bansheepress.org/read/banshee...
Banshee Press is open for book submissions from 1-15 October — Banshee Press
Banshee Press is open for 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…
bansheepress.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨Last day to send your manuscript!🚨