Banshee Press named among The Bookseller’s Rising Stars for 2021

The founders of Banshee Press are delighted and honoured to have been listed in The Bookseller’s Rising Stars list for 2021. The annual list identifies ‘the book trade’s up-and-comers and leaders of the future’, and includes editors, agents, designers, booksellers, librarians, publicists and festival directors. Here’s what they said about Banshee:

The genesis of Banshee was some “someday we should…” conversations between friends and fellow writers Laura Cassidy, Claire Hennessy and Eimear Ryan six years ago. Partially, they wanted to do their part to help better publishing’s author care and its recognition of the achievements of women writers, so a biannual literary magazine was born—and Banshee quickly established itself as one of the country’s literary tastemakers, going on to publish the great and up-and-comers of Irish (and further abroad) letters such as Sinéad Gleeson, Niamh Campbell and Ruth Gilligan. The books arm launched in 2019 with Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s rapturously reviewed collection of stories, and its latest is I Want To Know That I Will Be Okay, by acclaimed YA author Deirdre Sullivan. For the future, the literary magazine is remains vital there will be more welly put into the books: “Small press titles by their nature are often niche, but we want Banshee titles to be accessible and interesting to the general reading public.”

Huge thanks to The Bookseller for the recognition and to our brilliant authors, contributors, subscribers and readers for their support over the years!