Published Works
DE SKYLDIGES KLUB - (tab to read)
SCRIMSHAW II - (tab to read)
SCRIMSHAW III
SCRIMSHAW IV - (tab to read)
Novels
De Skyldiges Klub (Guilt Society) is Banner’s debut novel, and was published in 2025 by Forlaget Brændpunkt in Denmark. The story is set at the prestigious boarding school Maple Hills and follows principal Robert Miller and his student, Elin Arquette. The school’s reputation has been spotless for decades; but when one student finally decides to break their silence, the whispers of sexual abuse begin to seep out of the dark corners of the old institution. While principal Miller hides away in his office, attempting to save the school, Elin is forced to confront the culture of silence that preys on the weakest amongst the students.
“In American literature, the Gothic tale is a realm where evil and the grotesque thrive within old, dilapidated buildings, and where psychological and physical traumas lie deeply buried—suppressed. It is precisely from this perspective that the novel is compelling to discuss: What happens when people move in and out of these physical manifestations of harmful yet historical structures? And what happens if one were to succeed in completely removing these structures?”
- Lasse Rask Bach for Plot Twist Society.
“In the charged atmosphere of the boarding school, I was constantly on guard. You have a persistent sense that something isn’t quite right, yet you simply can’t put your finger on what it is. Being a curious person, couldn’t help but continue reading.”
-Emilie Kildall for Østjysk NærAvis
The novel is yet to be published in English.
Short Fiction
Days without nights, is a short story excerpt published in the II edition of the Scrimshaw Journal in 2023, that follows a group of Canadian PhD students who travel to Greenland as part of their research. The piece explores ecological unrest, indigenous wisdom, and colonial guilt.
The Stranger, a piece of flash fiction published in the III edition of the Scrimshaw Journal. A young woman’s act of hubris against nature leaves her hanging between life and death, where she must make a split second decision. Will she save herself or the animals she brought in danger?
Non-Fiction
In her essay, Good Grief, Banner launches herself into a raw and unravelling exploration of the grief she felt after losing her older sister Sonny to cancer. The essay’s chaotic and unapologetic structure moves between sections - One moment pondering the life of jellyfish, and the next obsessively overthinking an itchy birthmark, and wondering what happened to Sonny’s favourite coffee mug.
The piece was published in the II edition of The Scrimshaw Journal and remains one of Banner’s most praised works from her time at the ATU in Sligo.
Poetry
From Dust to Soil – a free-verse poem - was performed live at the Numberless Dreams Event in 2023, when Sligo celebrated the Nobel Centenary of WB Yeats. Banner, along with several other emerging writers, was invited to read, celebrating the future of poetry. The poem is a retelling of Eve’s disobedience in The Fall of Man and the loss of female innocence.
The Strawman – a free verse poem- was published in the IV edition of The Scrimshaw Journal. On an early morning in September of 2024, Banner went to the local gas station in Ballinode to pick up a cartoon of milk, when she saw a newspaper headline about the Pelicot Rape trial, which had begun earlier that month. The headline read “Her husband raped her at night – then had breakfast with her in the morning.” Months later, Banner’s close friend was also subjected to rape and described how the assailant, another close friend of Banner, had made her breakfast the morning after. Struck by how the act of breakfast between victim and assailant, domesticated the rape, Banner wrote The Strawman as en expression of the duality. The poem journeys from the darkness of the bedroom into the morning light, where the breakfast becomes an act of violation in itself.