We look forward to marking the release of Channel Issue 9 with both in-person and online launches. Whether you can join us in Dublin or prefer to tune in online, we can’t wait to celebrate with you!
Issue 9 is now available for pre-order. Those who can afford to further support our work may consider subscribing to Channel to receive each new issue upon its release, or becoming a patron to also receive access to our digital archive of back issues as well as acknowledgement in print and online.
In-Person Launch at Dublin Book Festival
We’re delighted to say that the in-person launch of Channel Issue 9 will take place as part of Dublin Book Festival, at the Printworks, Dublin Castle, at 12 noon on Sunday 12 November.
The event will feature readings by Issue 9 contributors, running from noon to 1.00pm, and will be followed by a reception.
It’s a joy to be sharing this issue’s launch with DBF, whose programme for this year includes a wealth of events linked to the natural world, ecological thought and publishing community. Please also consider joining us for Meet the Publishers – Social Change on Saturday 11 November, at which our co-editor Cassia Gaden Gilmartin and Irish Language Editor/Eagarthóir Gaeilge Aisling Ní Choibheanaigh Nic Eoin will discuss their work practices as part of a panel of mission-driven publishers.
Attendance is free but registration is required. Please sign up via the festival website to celebrate with us.
Find out more about the contributors who will read at the launch below:
S.J. Delaney is a queer Irish writer. His work has previously appeared in The Poetry Ireland Review, An Capall Dorcha, and also Green Carnations, an anthology of young queer Irish writing. He has performed at Dublin Pride 2023 and 2022. He is currently looking for a publisher for his first pamphlet. Twitter: @sjdelaneywriter, Instagram: @sjdelaneywriting
Shakeema Edwards is an Antiguan American writer living in Northern Ireland. She recently completed a master’s in poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.
John Kaufmann is an attorney and mobile home park owner who lives near New York City. His writing has been published in Off Assignment, Ep;phany Online, The High Plains Register, Tax Notes, The Journal of Taxation of Financial Products, and The Journal of Taxation of Investments. Kaufmann blogs at dirtlease.com.
Morgan Leathem Ventura is a writer, ex-archaeologist, and translator whose work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, The Waxed Lemon, Banshee, Augur, Lackington’s, and Best Canadian Essays 2021. Recently shortlisted for the 2023 Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Collection Award, Morgan holds a MA from the Seamus Heaney Centre.
Cliona O’Connell’s debut poetry collection was published in 2012. Awards and shortlistings include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Hennessy Literary Awards, the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Award, the Listowel Single Poem Award, the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition and the O Bhéal International Poetry Competition. Cliona has a Masters in Poetry Studies from Dublin City University.
Tina Pisco is a West Cork writer of novels, poetry, non-fiction, and short stories. In 2020/21 she became the first Writer-in-Residence for Cork City Libraries, and in 2021/22 was awarded the prestigious Frank O’Connor Fellowship. Her first short story collection (Sunrise Sunset and other fictions, FISH 2016) was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her second collection, The Dithering: tales from the peri-apocalypse, has the environmental crisis as an underlying theme.
Aoife Riach’s poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review, crannóg, Abridged, The Pickled Body and other magazines. She was a 2019 Irish Writers Centre Young Writer Delegate and was shortlisted for the Marian Keyes Young Writer Award. Her poem ‘Vancouver’ was selected for the Hungering curation of the Poetry Jukebox.
Online Launch via YouTube Premiere
We continue to offer a digital launch for each issue in celebration of the broad community of Channel readers and contributors unable to join us for an in-person event in Dublin.
This issue’s online launch will take place via YouTube Premiere on Thursday 16 November, starting at 7.00pm. It will feature readings in English and Irish from local and international contributors, along with photography showcasing the environments that have inspired their work.
The launch video will be viewable below at the time of its release, or tune in directly via YouTube to join in the live chat.