Launch of Channel Issue 13
Issue 13 is now available for pre-order, and we’re delighted to say that we’ll be launching this new issue at Books Upstairs, D’Olier Street, on Thursday 30 October, 6.30pm–8.00pm.
The launch will feature contributor readings along with a performance from musical guest Sailhymn, and will be livestreamed via Channel‘s Instagram for those unable to attend in-person.
Attendance is free, with no registration required, and all are very welcome to join us.
Accessibility: The launch will be held in Books Upstairs’ ground floor bookshop space, and will therefore be accessible to guests unable to access the venue’s upper floors. Please note, however, that there is a small step from the footpath up to the venue door and the venue’s toilets are up two flights of stairs. Limited seating will be avalable for guests for whom standing for the event’s duration may be difficult or uncomfortable. For any further accessibility queries please contact us at info@channelmag.org.
Our Readers & Performers:
Conor Crummey is a writer and academic from Belfast. His fiction has appeared in The Moth, Banshee, Channel and Frustrated Writers’ Group Vol. 2, and has been featured on RTÉ Radio 1’s The Prompt series.
Jennifer Horgan is a Cork poet. Her work appears in Southword, Abridged, Skylight 47 and Howl, among others. She was shortlisted in RTÉ’s Prompt series in July 2025. Her debut collection, Care, was released in April 2025 with Doire Press.
Aistritheoir agus clasaiceoir é Caolán Mac an Aircinn atá ag cur faoi i mBaile Átha Cliath. Tá dornán gearrscéalta foilsithe aige idir Ghaeilge agus Bhéarla. Is féidir teacht air ar Instagram ag @writercaolan.
Tim MacGabhann is the author of the novels Call Him Mine (2019) and How to Be Nowhere (2020), the memoir The Black Pool (2025), the short story collection Saints (2025) and the poetry collection Found in a Context of Destruction (2026).
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a mother, writer, holder and grower. She is moved by the way we tend and attend: to ourselves; to one another; to the living world. She mentors and teaches worldwide. Her work currently explores ideas of one-anotherness, interconnectedness and ecologies of care.
Rugadh Caomhán Ó hÓgáin i mBleá Cliath. Scríbhinní leis in irisí éagsúla. Craoltóir le Raidió na Life. Aistritheoir atá lonnaithe sa Bheilg.
Veronica Tucker is an emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician based in New England. Her poetry explores the intersections of medicine, motherhood and the natural world. Her work appears in One Art, redrosethorns, Eunoia Review and elsewhere, with more forthcoming. She enjoys running, travel and well-made matcha lattes.
Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter rooted in the West of Ireland and sustained by the sands and soil of Ballybunion and Galway City. Their music is soul-based and intentional, stripping back performance to the essential elements to deliver sentiments that ripple out in waves of harmony. Following a transformative shift beyond the binary and into the awe-instilling spectrum of light, they released their most recent single ‘Sail A Way’ in January of 2025.