Issue 12 of Banshee is available to order now! (It is also available in a number of independent bookshops – support your local if you have one.) Guest edited by John Patrick McHugh (fiction) & Jessica Traynor (poetry). Cat-related content vetted (ahem) by this editorial assistant.

A celebration of this issue is happening in association with DLR arts office on Culture Night & will be live-streamed.

Other Banshee-related stuff: Deirdre Sullivan will be speaking about I Want To Know That I Will Be Okay as part of the Red Line Book Festival, in an event focusing on the short story. (Tons of events happening, do check out the full list. Am chairing an interview with four debut novelists, which feels like a mad term to use for writers with so much experience between them, & very much looking forward to it.)

Submissions for Issue 13 will be open throughout October.

(That is all my news. Stay safe out there in this strange world, fellow humans.)