1 A length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.
1.1 (the Channel) The English Channel.
1.2 A navigable passage in a stretch of water otherwise unsafe for vessels.
1.3 A hollow bed for a natural or artificial waterway.
2 A band of frequencies used in radio and television transmission, especially as used by a particular station.
2.1 A service or station using a channel of frequencies.
3 A method or system for communication or distribution.
4 An electric circuit which acts as a path for a signal.
4.1 Electronics: The semiconductor region in a field-effect transistor that forms the main current path between the source and the drain.
5 Biology: A tubular passage or duct for liquid. Definitions of “channel” from oxforddictionaries.com
Channel is a literary magazine born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective.
Issue 9 is now available through our online store and through stockists around Ireland.
We believe that humanity’s disengagement from the natural world is one of the great losses of our time, and in the onslaught of climate change we see that disengagement reaching its inevitable conclusion. If Ireland’s history of myths and stories woven from the landscape shows anything, though, it’s that the literary arts have a part to play in rebuilding our relationship with nature.
Our goal at Channel is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. We publish work from Ireland and abroad that displays and celebrates the relationships between plant and animal life, landscape and humanity.
We want words that act as a path, a safe passage wide enough for ideas to flow through. We want words that join human beings and our habitats together.
About the editors
Managing Editor:
Cassia Gaden Gilmartin is a writer and editor interested in exploring personal and collective relationships with place through publishing. She is a 2019 graduate of the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin. Her short fiction has been published by Catatonic Daughters, Banshee, Transnational Queer Underground and Eunoia Review. She works as Production Executive at New Island Books and programmes events and supports for Ireland’s publishing community as part of the Events and Training committees of Publishing Ireland, with a particular focus on bringing the strategies and work processes of corporate publishers into conversation with those of small, artist-led projects.
Irish Language Editor/Eagarthóir Gaeilge:
Aisling Ní Choibheanaigh Nic Eoin is an editor and writer whose work focuses on Celtic languages and local environmentalism. She is a graduate of the English Studies BA, Trinity College Dublin, as well as the Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture MLitt, University of St Andrews, and now co-edits a literary journal called Aimsir.
Is eagarthóir agus scríbhneoir í Aisling, agus díríonn a cuid oibre ar theangacha Ceilteacha, agus ar thimpeallachtachas áitiúil. Tá céim sa Bhearla aici, ó Cholaiste na Trionóide, agus Máistreacht aici sa Chultúr agus Litríocht Chomhaimseartha, ón University of St Andrews. Anois, is comheagarthóir í don irisleabhar Aimsir.
All our work in 2024 is carried out with the help of our Publishing Intern, Emily Iseult Duggan:
Emily Iseult Duggan lives in Donegal. She writes, cooks and makes art. Her work often explores relationships of care and seeks to create a third space through cross-disciplinary research. In 2021, she self-published The Eaters, an art-book in collaboration with survivors of the Direct Provision system. Since 2021, she has worked with Jennie Moran in her long-term art project ‘Luncheonette’, which creates sculptural food and hospitality responses to exhibitions, situations and institutions. Her short stories have been published in An Capall Dorcha and Sans. Press anthologies, and she participated in the 2023 Stinging Fly Summer School.