25 April,
Panel /
Frames of Reference: Editors
Saturday, 25 April 2026, 12:00pm
The Mick Lally Theatre / €5/8
Book NowIrish literary journals are the bedrock of our literary culture, publishing exciting work, discovering new voices and publishing them alongside many of our greatest writers. Join Eimear Ryan from Banshee, Dean Fee from The Pig’s Back and Nathan O’Donnell from PVA as they discuss the culture of journals, the joys and challenges of editing fiction and non-fiction, and answer your questions on publishing.
In association with ‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ Training Network (funded by the European Union under the Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Actions 2021 Project number 101072698)
Eimear is the author of a novel, Holding Her Breath (Penguin Sandycove, 2021), and a memoir, The Grass Ceiling (Penguin Sandycove, 2023). Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She is a co-founder and editor of Banshee literary journal and its publishing imprint, Banshee Press. From Co. Tipperary, she now lives in Cork city, where she lectures in creative writing at University College Cork.
Dean is a writer and editor based in Donegal. His work as appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Dublin Review, Banshee, London Magazine, on BBC Radio, and many more. He is the managing editor of The Pig’s Back literary journal.
Nathan is a writer, curator, and one of the co-editors of PVA (Journal + Books). His work is grounded in the fields of contemporary art and experimental publishing. In 2020, with Marysia Wieckiewicz, he founded Numbered Editions, an experimental imprint for artists’ writing across forms (visual art, dance, theatre, literature). From 2018 to 2025, he was a curatorial Associate at IMMA. He has been awarded artist’s commissions for performances, publications, and public art projects from Dublin City Arts Office, the Arts Council of Ireland, IMMA, Ormston House, and South Dublin County Council. He was writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2021–22; and a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. He teaches on the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD and in 2026 he will curate the Dublin Art Book Fair for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
