[6] The first edition included works by Sinéad Gleeson, Jessica Traynor and Deirdre Sullivan and featured an interview with Nuala Ní Chonchúir.
As a journal founded by three women, Banshee receives more submissions and publishes more work from female writers than some other literary magazines.
In an interview for the Bath Flash Fiction Award in 2017, the editors said "we've published more women, on average, than a typical journal.
This isn't intentional on our part – we're interested in good writing, first and foremost – but it is, of course, telling that 'more men' is viewed as the norm while 'more women' is clearly a scary feminist agenda.
[8] Reviewing the collection for the Irish Times, Sarah Gilmartin said that "it is easy to see why Banshee – an up-and-coming literary magazine with a strong feminist bent – has chosen Paris Syndrome as its first book for publication.