Banshee Press: Irish Literary Talent & Support for the Arts

Join Irish writers Bebe Ashley, Eimear Ryan, and Jessica Traynor, in conversation with Zach Powers, Executive & Artistic Director of The Writer's Center, for a conversation about the work of Banshee Press in the context of the current explosion of Irish literary talent, and how support for the Arts plays into the success of Irish writers. 

About Banshee Press

Banshee Press is a small independent Irish publisher, founded in 2015 and currently run by award-winning writers Eimear Ryan and Jessica Traynor. To date the press has published ten books of fiction. Our authors include Bebe Ashley, Dylan Brennan, Lucy Sweeney Byrne, Gustav Parker Hibbett, Claire-Lise Kieffer, Tim MacGabhann, Mary Morrissy, Billy Ramsell, Deirdre Sullivan, Rosamund Taylor and David Toms. We have recently celebrated our tenth anniversary, and the 20th issue of our diverse literary journal Banshee, which published flash fiction, poetry, flash fiction and essays.

In 2024 and 2025, Banshee Press was selected as the island of Ireland winner in the Small Press of the Year Award at the Nibbies, The Bookseller’s annual publishing awards. Banshee Press authors have recently been listed for or won such awards as the Edge Hill Prize, the Kate O'Brien Award, the Butler Literary Award, the John McGahern Annual Book Prize, the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize, the Polari First Book Prize, the Ivan Juritz Prize, the Laurel Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize.

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