A literary magazine publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective. Channel also features visual art from artists based in Ireland/Éire.

We believe that humanity’s disengagement from the natural world is one of the great losses of our time, and in the onslaught of climate change we see that disengagement reaching its inevitable conclusion. If Ireland’s history of myths and stories woven from the landscape shows anything, though, it’s that the literary arts have a part to play in rebuilding our relationship with nature.

Our goal at Channel is to provide a space for literary work that fosters re-connection with the natural world. We publish work from Ireland and abroad that displays and celebrates the relationships between plant and animal life, landscape and humanity.

We want words that act as a path, a safe passage wide enough for ideas to flow through. We want words that join human beings and our habitats together.

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Poetry and fiction should be submitted only during our open submission windows.<div></div><div>Please submit your work as a Word document or PDF attachment to the relevant email address as listed below:</div><div></div><div>Essays/Non-fiction – essay@channelmag.org</div><div>Fiction – fiction@channelmag.org</div><div>Poetry – poetry@channelmag.org</div><div></div><div>Due to the volume of work we receive, we ask that writers submit no more than one essay, one short story and/or four poems per submission window. If you have an essay submission currently awaiting a response from us, please wait until you hear from us before submitting another essay.</div>

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We pay €35 per printed page, with a minimum fee of €60 for single-page poems and a maximum fee of €250 per piece. All contributors will also receive a copy of Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World.<div><br></div><div>Biophilia: Love Poems for the Living World will be the debut standalone title from Channel Press, a poetry anthology celebrating the joys of ecological entanglement.<div><br></div><div>The biophilia hypothesis, put forward by Edward O. Wilson in Biophilia (1984), proposes that human beings possess an innate tendency to seek out and affiliate with other forms of life. In his words: ‘to explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion, our existence depends on this propensity, our spirit is woven from it, hope rises on its currents’.</div><div><br></div><div>This truth, that the human animal is wired for connection with other living things and that we suffer when we create lifestyles that isolate us from the biosphere, has long been recognised by indigenous cultures worldwide and is at the heart of our publishing practice at Channel Press. For our debut anthology, we are looking for poems that attend to this propensity for connection with the same fascination, sensitivity and sensual abandon traditionally given to the poetry of romantic love.</div><div><br></div><div>Send us a paean to a little-known species or to the creature hiding in your back garden; a song of despair for a landscape disfigured by climate change or a poem of affection for the grasses that brush your legs on a local walk. All expressions of biophilic love are welcome.</div></div>

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