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· Oct 6
We'll be launching Issue 13 in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 30 October 🍁✨️
A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all!
channelmag.org/issue-13/
A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all!
channelmag.org/issue-13/
And there, beyond the range of the live camera's tick-tick-ticking, an infant clings to his young mother, his grip strong enough to secure him.
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
And there, beyond the range of the live camera's tick-tick-ticking, an infant clings to his young mother, his grip strong enough to secure him.
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
@niamhmaccabe.bsky.social, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13
channelmag.org/issue-13/
We're delighted that Channel has been selected for feature at #DABF25, running 4-14 December 2025 at @tbgands.bsky.social 💙
We'll be represented by Issue 13 and our first single-authored publication, Annette Skade's beautiful chapbook Holdfast. www.templebargallery.com/exhibitions/...
We'll be represented by Issue 13 and our first single-authored publication, Annette Skade's beautiful chapbook Holdfast. www.templebargallery.com/exhibitions/...
Flock | Flock | Exhibition | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is a leading artists’ studio complex and contemporary art gallery in Dublin City Centre.
www.templebargallery.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We're delighted that Channel has been selected for feature at #DABF25, running 4-14 December 2025 at @tbgands.bsky.social 💙
We'll be represented by Issue 13 and our first single-authored publication, Annette Skade's beautiful chapbook Holdfast. www.templebargallery.com/exhibitions/...
We'll be represented by Issue 13 and our first single-authored publication, Annette Skade's beautiful chapbook Holdfast. www.templebargallery.com/exhibitions/...
We're thrilled to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair next weekend! You'll find us with a range of literary journals at the Leabharlann Beag table organised by Sans. Press.
Full details at dublinsmallpressfair.com ✨️
Full details at dublinsmallpressfair.com ✨️
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We're thrilled to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair next weekend! You'll find us with a range of literary journals at the Leabharlann Beag table organised by Sans. Press.
Full details at dublinsmallpressfair.com ✨️
Full details at dublinsmallpressfair.com ✨️
A massive thank you to everyone who submitted to Issue 14 of Channel 🩷 Submissions for this issue are now closed.
We’re so excited to read all of your wonderful work 📖
We’re so excited to read all of your wonderful work 📖
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A massive thank you to everyone who submitted to Issue 14 of Channel 🩷 Submissions for this issue are now closed.
We’re so excited to read all of your wonderful work 📖
We’re so excited to read all of your wonderful work 📖
🔔 Just a few hours left to get submissions in! Go go go 💚
Only a couple of days left to submit to Issue 14 of Channel!
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🔔 Just a few hours left to get submissions in! Go go go 💚
Comedown like a steel spade. My skull feels split.
I picture mangoes bleeding into roadside pebbles.
🥭Tim MacGabhann (@elfodongo.bsky.social), ‘From a Correspondent’s Failed Memoir', Channel Issue 13 🥭
channelmag.org/issue-13/
I picture mangoes bleeding into roadside pebbles.
🥭Tim MacGabhann (@elfodongo.bsky.social), ‘From a Correspondent’s Failed Memoir', Channel Issue 13 🥭
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Comedown like a steel spade. My skull feels split.
I picture mangoes bleeding into roadside pebbles.
🥭Tim MacGabhann (@elfodongo.bsky.social), ‘From a Correspondent’s Failed Memoir', Channel Issue 13 🥭
channelmag.org/issue-13/
I picture mangoes bleeding into roadside pebbles.
🥭Tim MacGabhann (@elfodongo.bsky.social), ‘From a Correspondent’s Failed Memoir', Channel Issue 13 🥭
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Only a couple of days left to submit to Issue 14 of Channel!
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Only a couple of days left to submit to Issue 14 of Channel!
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November.
Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
This ash still threatens the house on stormy nights—I once found a dead bird in its living cavity, and now rats have learned to find winter in the same heart.
🌳Sinéad McClure (@thecalendarroad.bsky.social), 'Ash', Channel Issue 13 🌳
channelmag.org/issue-13/
🌳Sinéad McClure (@thecalendarroad.bsky.social), 'Ash', Channel Issue 13 🌳
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This ash still threatens the house on stormy nights—I once found a dead bird in its living cavity, and now rats have learned to find winter in the same heart.
🌳Sinéad McClure (@thecalendarroad.bsky.social), 'Ash', Channel Issue 13 🌳
channelmag.org/issue-13/
🌳Sinéad McClure (@thecalendarroad.bsky.social), 'Ash', Channel Issue 13 🌳
channelmag.org/issue-13/
one brother buys two two calves
and the other brother buys this
beautiful dark blue denim jacket
and that there is the moral
you understand
---
🌟 @eoghancarrick.bsky.social, 'Ireland, but money is good, too', Channel Issue 13 🌟
channelmag.org/issue-13/
and the other brother buys this
beautiful dark blue denim jacket
and that there is the moral
you understand
---
🌟 @eoghancarrick.bsky.social, 'Ireland, but money is good, too', Channel Issue 13 🌟
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
one brother buys two two calves
and the other brother buys this
beautiful dark blue denim jacket
and that there is the moral
you understand
---
🌟 @eoghancarrick.bsky.social, 'Ireland, but money is good, too', Channel Issue 13 🌟
channelmag.org/issue-13/
and the other brother buys this
beautiful dark blue denim jacket
and that there is the moral
you understand
---
🌟 @eoghancarrick.bsky.social, 'Ireland, but money is good, too', Channel Issue 13 🌟
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Channel got started in 2019, fuelled by that year's global climate strikes. What a pleasure to be taking to the streets again 💪🏻💚
🔊One day to go until the National Climate March!
Will you join us tomorrow to march for climate justice?🌍✊
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Will you join us tomorrow to march for climate justice?🌍✊
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/events/join-...
Join the National Climate March
It's time to put People before Big Polluters!
www.friendsoftheearth.ie
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Channel got started in 2019, fuelled by that year's global climate strikes. What a pleasure to be taking to the streets again 💪🏻💚
Thank you for sharing your words with us @eoghancarrick.bsky.social! 👏🏻
Last month, I had work published in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, @channel-lit.bsky.social and @swervejournal.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading the other contributors pieces.
www.eoghancarrick.com/post/work-pu...
www.eoghancarrick.com/post/work-pu...
Work published in Minor Literature[s], Channel and Swerve recently
[un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] is a cross genre essay in images and words explorating Hans Holbein the Younger’s 1524 Alphabet with Dance of Death. [un]inhabited initials [after Holbein] was p...
www.eoghancarrick.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thank you for sharing your words with us @eoghancarrick.bsky.social! 👏🏻
One week left to share your work with us for Channel Issue 14! We would love to hear from you 💚
Submission guidelines: channelmag.org/submissions/
Submission guidelines: channelmag.org/submissions/
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
One week left to share your work with us for Channel Issue 14! We would love to hear from you 💚
Submission guidelines: channelmag.org/submissions/
Submission guidelines: channelmag.org/submissions/
Thank you to Podge Meehan for sharing a sample from his beautiful story published in Issue 13 🔥 channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thank you to Podge Meehan for sharing a sample from his beautiful story published in Issue 13 🔥 channelmag.org/issue-13/
Thrilled to be joining tomorrow's @culturefile.bsky.social Debate at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social! Come show the bugs some love 🦗🪳🦟🪰 dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-cu...
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Thrilled to be joining tomorrow's @culturefile.bsky.social Debate at @dublinbookfest.bsky.social! Come show the bugs some love 🦗🪳🦟🪰 dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-cu...
Thank you to Gabrielle Fullam for her beautiful essay on housing, wastage and the National Children's Hospital 🔥
Read 'Waste(rs)' in full in Issue 13:
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Read 'Waste(rs)' in full in Issue 13:
channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Thank you to Gabrielle Fullam for her beautiful essay on housing, wastage and the National Children's Hospital 🔥
Read 'Waste(rs)' in full in Issue 13:
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Read 'Waste(rs)' in full in Issue 13:
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Thank you to all who celebrated Issue 13 with us, for a wonderful night of stories, poetry and song 💐
More about the new issue: channelmag.org/issue-13/
More about the new issue: channelmag.org/issue-13/
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thank you to all who celebrated Issue 13 with us, for a wonderful night of stories, poetry and song 💐
More about the new issue: channelmag.org/issue-13/
More about the new issue: channelmag.org/issue-13/
We can’t wait for our launch on Thursday! Come along for an evening of readings and music 🎤 🎶
We'll be launching Issue 13 in @booksupstairs.bsky.social on 30 October 🍁✨️
A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all!
channelmag.org/issue-13/
A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all!
channelmag.org/issue-13/
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We can’t wait for our launch on Thursday! Come along for an evening of readings and music 🎤 🎶
🔔 Submissions open! 🔔
Channel is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish for Issue 14.
We can’t wait to read your work - get it to us before the deadline of 20 November 📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
Channel is now accepting submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish for Issue 14.
We can’t wait to read your work - get it to us before the deadline of 20 November 📝🌿🌼
channelmag.org/submissions/
October 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We’re delighted that Sailhymn will be the musical guest at our launch event next week 🙌
Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter from the west of Ireland and will be treating us to some tunes as we launch Issue 13 on Thursday evening.
sailhymn.bandcamp.com
Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter from the west of Ireland and will be treating us to some tunes as we launch Issue 13 on Thursday evening.
sailhymn.bandcamp.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
We’re delighted that Sailhymn will be the musical guest at our launch event next week 🙌
Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter from the west of Ireland and will be treating us to some tunes as we launch Issue 13 on Thursday evening.
sailhymn.bandcamp.com
Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter from the west of Ireland and will be treating us to some tunes as we launch Issue 13 on Thursday evening.
sailhymn.bandcamp.com
Next up in our series of recorded readings from Issue 13: Valerie Nieman reads 'You Can't of Course' 🌾
channelmag.org/issue-13/
channelmag.org/issue-13/
October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Next up in our series of recorded readings from Issue 13: Valerie Nieman reads 'You Can't of Course' 🌾
channelmag.org/issue-13/
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Did you know Channel has subscription and patronship options?
For a contribution of €50, patrons receive a subscription lasting one year (two issues), access to our digital archive of back issues, a personalised thank you note and acknowledgement in print and online.
For a contribution of €50, patrons receive a subscription lasting one year (two issues), access to our digital archive of back issues, a personalised thank you note and acknowledgement in print and online.
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Did you know Channel has subscription and patronship options?
For a contribution of €50, patrons receive a subscription lasting one year (two issues), access to our digital archive of back issues, a personalised thank you note and acknowledgement in print and online.
For a contribution of €50, patrons receive a subscription lasting one year (two issues), access to our digital archive of back issues, a personalised thank you note and acknowledgement in print and online.
Only one week to go until our launch night!
We can’t wait to share Issue 13 with you.
channelmag.org/issue-13/
We can’t wait to share Issue 13 with you.
channelmag.org/issue-13/
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Only one week to go until our launch night!
We can’t wait to share Issue 13 with you.
channelmag.org/issue-13/
We can’t wait to share Issue 13 with you.
channelmag.org/issue-13/
Here’s Cindy A. Velasquez reading her poem ‘Hilanat’ or ‘Fever’ in its original Cebuano and in English 🌼
This gorgeous poem will feature in Issue 13 of Channel channelmag.org/issue-13/
This gorgeous poem will feature in Issue 13 of Channel channelmag.org/issue-13/
October 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Here’s Cindy A. Velasquez reading her poem ‘Hilanat’ or ‘Fever’ in its original Cebuano and in English 🌼
This gorgeous poem will feature in Issue 13 of Channel channelmag.org/issue-13/
This gorgeous poem will feature in Issue 13 of Channel channelmag.org/issue-13/
Is iris í Channel a fhoilsíonn ábhar litríochta comhaimseartha bainteach le cúrsaí timpeallachta agus dúlra sa chiall is leithne. Ba mhaith linn, go háirithe, cur lenár líon ábhar as Gaeilge. ✍️📧
channelmag.org/submissions/
channelmag.org/submissions/
October 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Is iris í Channel a fhoilsíonn ábhar litríochta comhaimseartha bainteach le cúrsaí timpeallachta agus dúlra sa chiall is leithne. Ba mhaith linn, go háirithe, cur lenár líon ábhar as Gaeilge. ✍️📧
channelmag.org/submissions/
channelmag.org/submissions/
Next up in our series of recorded readings previewing Issue 13: Ramona Herdman reads her poem ‘Well’ 👏
channelmag.org/issue-13/
channelmag.org/issue-13/
October 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Next up in our series of recorded readings previewing Issue 13: Ramona Herdman reads her poem ‘Well’ 👏
channelmag.org/issue-13/
channelmag.org/issue-13/