Anthologies
Editor of section, ‘LESBIAN ENCOUNTERS, 1746-1997’in THE FIELD DAY ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH WRITING VOLS IV and V: IRISH WOMEN’S WRITING AND TRADITIONS (Cork: Cork University Press, 2002)
Guest editor of BEST LESBIAN EROTICA 2007 (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2007), ed. Tristan Taormino. This anthology was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the erotica category.
Editor of THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF LESBIAN SHORT STORIES (London: Robinson Publishing, and New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999, paperback ISBN 0-7867-0627-9 [out of print]). Lambda Literary Award Finalist 1999. Donoghue’s anthology of lesbian-themed stories in English from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.
‘The twenty-nine authors collected here come from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to the US, and expand this reader’s sense of the reach of the lesbian imagination.’ – LAMBDA BOOK REPORT
‘Perhaps the best and widest-ranging of recent anthologies’ – AMAZON.COM (EDITORIAL REVIEW)
Editor of POEMS BETWEEN WOMEN: FOUR CENTURIES OF LOVE, ROMANTIC FRIENDSHIP AND DESIRE (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-231-10925-3), UK title WHAT SAPPHO WOULD HAVE SAID: FOUR CENTURIES OF LOVE POEMS BETWEEN WOMEN (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1997). Lambda Literary Award Finalist 1997. Donoghue’s anthology brings famous names like Emily Dickinson and Adrienne Rich together with a host of unknown and forgotten women (not all lesbians, by any means) writing love poems to women in English all across the globe, since the 1650s.
US edition:
'A refreshingly eclectic and intelligently edited collection of love poems ... what a treat to see work by so many writers who will be unfamiliar to most.' – GAY TIMES
‘Her introduction, dazzling in its range and scope, places in sharp focus the matrix of women's lives, socially and emotionally, over four centuries... Her succinct, vivid biographies of the individual poets offer fascinating illustration and amplification of how these women lived. This outstanding collection showcases the eloquence and passion and yearning of 106 poets.' – SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER AND CHRONICLE