Front cover of Channel Issue 14, featuring a photograph of an art exhibition including several sculptural pieces: a brick wall in the middle of the room, a piece featuring a small ladder and a metal sculpture with a leaf shape at the top and yellow hard hat hanging from it.

Launch of Channel Issue 14


Issue 14 is now available for pre-order, and we’re thrilled to share that this issue’s launch will be hosted by the Kirkos Ensemble at 1 Little Green Street, Smithfield, on Thursday 14 May from 7.00 p.m.–9.00 p.m.

1 Little Green Street (formerly home to Arran Street East pottery school) is operated by Kirkos, a musical ensemble aiming in their own words “to develop the ecosystem that thrives at the fringes of Irish new music and high-concept performances”, as a unique open space for experimental music and arts programming. This venue represents a rare thing – an affordable space for rehearsal and performance of new work regardless of commercial viability, run by and for artists, that has been able to survive to date within a precarious arts infrastructure – and we can’t wait to share Channel‘s new issue with the Kirkos team.

The launch will feature contributor readings along with a performance from our musical guest Christian Wethered. The event 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 Kirkos space is wheelchair accessible and there will be seating available for those who need it. We regret that, though a bathroom will be available for guests, the bathroom is not wheelchair accessible. Please feel free to contact us with further accessibility queries at info@channelmag.org and we will do our best to meet your needs.

Our Readers and Performers

Dr. Alicia Byrne Keane is a poet from Dublin, with work published in The Moth, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, Oxford Poetry, Southword and Poetry Ireland Review. Alicia received an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2024 and has a debut poetry collection, Pretend Cartoon Strength, published by Broken Sleep Books (December 2023); a second collection is forthcoming in September 2026.

Quigley CB has been published in the likes of Spellbinder and featured on AllFM and the BBC. She was shortlisted for the Shelagh Delaney New Writing Award and was Tartu Writer in Residence 2024. Her short story collection, God Leaks out of your Armpit, was published by Written Off Publishing.

Marianne Daigh lives in North Dublin. She has a background in theology and also practices photography. Her work has appeared in various publications including Ragaire, The Belfast Review and Streetcake Magazine. She was shortlisted for the Allingham flash fiction prize in 2025. Find her on mdaigh.wordpress.com or Insta @mdaighwait.

Úrscéalaí, gearrscéalaí, drámadóir agus file é Dáithí de Buitléir a bhfuil go leor gradaim bronnta ar a shaothar, an Duais Phádraig Liath Ó Conchubhair don gearrscéal ‘Mo Chéad Ghrá’ ina measc.

File dátheangach is ea Caitríona Lane a rugadh agus a tógadh i mBaile Átha Cliath. Cónaíonn sí i gConamara áit a spreagann í dul i mbun pinn. Tá saothar foilsithe aici in irisí ar nós: Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Aneas, Comhar, An Gael, An Dearcán, HOWL, ROPES, The Storms, SWERVE, Washing Windows agus eile. Bhuaigh sí Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge Lios Tuathail 2025.

Caitríona Lane is a Dublin born, Connemara based bilingual writer. She is a Poetry Ireland Introductions Céadlínte Series Poet. Connemara influences her work. Her poetry appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Southword, Aneas, Comhar, An Gael, An Dearcán, HOWL, Ragaire, ROPES, The Storms, SWERVE, Channel and elsewhere. She has won several prizes including Listowel Writers’ Week Duais 2025, An Fiach Dubh 2024, Drawn to the Light Press Brigid Award 2025.

Scríobhnóir Éireannach is í Rose Malone, a thagann ó Co. Cill Dara. Chaith sí beagnach 40 bliana sa chóras oideachais in Éirinn mar mhúinteoir, mar léachtóir agus mar thaighdeoir i gceard cumann. Ó d’éirigh sí as in 2012, bíonn sí ag scríobh i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla. Gearrscéalta agus dánta, ach go h-áirithe. Tá a saothar foilsithe in New Square, Drawn to the Light Press, Channel agus Howl.

Rose Malone is an Irish writer from Co. Kildare. She spent almost forty years in the Irish education system, as a teacher, as a lecturer, and as a researcher in an education union. Since she retired in 2012, she has been writing in Irish and English – short stories and poems. Her work has been published in New Square, Drawn to the Light Press, Channel and Howl.

Tina Pisco is a writer of novels, newspaper columns 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 by the Munster Literature Centre. Her first short story collection (Sunrise Sunset and other fictions, FISH 2016) was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize.

Kerri Sonnenberg is author of The Mudra (Litmus Press, USA). Recent work appears in the journals Banshee, Anthropocene, antiphony and Ambient Receiver: Journal of Creative Ecologies. Originally from Illinois, she now resides in Cork, Ireland. Her digital residence is kerrisonnenberg.com.

Christian Wethered is an alternative folk singer and poet based in Dublin. His work draws on folk and chanson traditions. His new album From the Balustrade is due this year.