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We'll be launching Issue 13 in @BooksUpstairs on 30 October 🍁✨️ A big thank you to this issue's talented contributors, and to Aaron Sunderland Carey for the beautiful cover art. We can't wait to celebrate this issue with you all! channelmag.org/issue-13/

And there, beyond the range of the live camera's tick-tick-ticking, an infant clings to his young mother, his grip strong enough to secure him. @NiamhMacCabe, 'Pan and the Ironwood', Channel Issue 13 channelmag.org/issue-13/

We're delighted that Channel has been selected for feature at #DABF25, running 4-14 December 2025 at @TBGandS 💙 We'll be represented by Issue 13 and our first single-authored publication, Annette Skade's beautiful chapbook Holdfast. templebargallery.com/exhibitions/du…

We're thrilled to be taking part in the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair next weekend! You'll find us with a range of literary journals at the Leabharlann Beag table organised by Sans. Press. Full details at dublinsmallpressfair.com ✨️

A massive thank you to everyone who submitted to Issue 14 of Channel 🩷 Submissions for this issue are now closed. We’re so excited to read all of your wonderful work 📖

🔔 Just a few hours left to get submissions in! Go go go 💚

Comedown like a steel spade. My skull feels split. I picture mangoes bleeding into roadside pebbles. 🥭Tim MacGabhann, 'From a Correspondent’s Failed Memoir', Channel Issue 13 🥭 channelmag.org/issue-13/

Only a couple of days left to submit to Issue 14 of Channel! We’re welcoming submissions of poetry, fiction and essays in English or Irish until this Thursday, 20 November. Submission guidelines at the link ⬇️📝🌿🌼 channelmag.org/submissions/

This ash still threatens the house on stormy nights—I once found a dead bird in its living cavity, and now rats have learned to find winter in the same heart. 🌳Sinéad McClure (@thecalendarroad), 'Ash', Channel Issue 13 🌳 channelmag.org/issue-13/

one brother buys two two calves and the other brother buys this beautiful dark blue denim jacket and that there is the moral you understand --- 🌟 @eoghancarrick, 'Ireland, but money is good, too', Channel Issue 13 🌟 channelmag.org/issue-13/

Channel got started in 2019, fuelled by that year's global climate strikes. What a pleasure to be taking to the streets again 💪🏻

One week left to share your work with us for Channel Issue 14! We would love to hear from you 💚 Submission guidelines: channelmag.org/submissions/

Thrilled to be joining tomorrow's @CultureFilePod Debate at @DublinBookFest! Come show the bugs some love 🦗🪳🦟🪰 dublinbookfestival.com/event/the-cult…

Thank you to Gabrielle Fullam for her beautiful essay on housing, wastage and the National Children's Hospital 🔥 Read 'Waste(rs)' in full in Issue 13: channelmag.org/issue-13/

Thank you to all who celebrated Issue 13 with us, for a wonderful night of stories, poetry and song 💐 More about the new issue: channelmag.org/issue-13/

We can’t wait for our launch on Thursday! Come along for an evening of readings and music 🎤 🎶

Reminder that submissions are open for Issue 14 until 20 November ✍️ channelmag.org/submissions/

We’re delighted that Sailhymn will be the musical guest at our launch event next week 🙌 Sailhymn is a singer-songwriter from the west of Ireland and will be treating us to some tunes as we launch Issue 13 on Thursday evening. sailhymn.bandcamp.com

Next up in our series of recorded readings from Issue 13: @valnieman reads 'You Can't of Course' 🌾 channelmag.org/issue-13/

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