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Talking about writing with the Tuesday Writers' Group

Talking about writing with the Tuesday Writers' Group

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The Tuesday Writers' Group is so-called because since April 2022 these six writers have met once a month on a Tuesday to discuss each other's work. Now entering its third year, the group is made up of six writers, all incidentally originally from Ireland, working across genres including fiction, poetry, non-fiction and more. 

The group will visit Prismatic Pages and share about their writing processes, writing as a practice, as a business, and more.

You're invited to stay for mingling after with refreshments kindly provided by the Embassy of Ireland in Norway.

When: 18 September, 17.15-18.45

Where: Prismatic Pages, Rathkes gate 7b

The members:
Barry Kavanagh's background includes the music group Dacianos, who released 5 albums (2000-2011). He mainly writes novels, but only short prose has been published. He has written and edited non-fiction, for example the anthology A Load of Blather (2008). He also has a Ph.D. in English language.

Cathryn McWilliams works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Her children’s book Who Ate All the Pies? was published in 2010, while her poetry has appeared in The Honest Ulsterman, Allegro and Channel. She is currently creative response editor for the journal MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture. 


David Toms is the author of Soma | Sema (2011), Northly (2019) and Pacemaker (2022). Twice a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland's Literary Bursary Award, he was Maddock Fellow at Marsh's Library 2024. He has a Ph.D in Modern History.

Sam McManus is a writer and medical doctor. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, Village Magazine, Cassandra Voices and the Irish Medical Times. He was nominated for the Irish Times/Hennessy Prize for fiction, and recently received the JT Pasby Award at Oxford University. He is currently working on a novel.

Jean Kavanagh is a poet from Dublin and Clare. She has a Master’s degree in Indigenous Studies from UiT, the Arctic University in Tromsø.  She was shortlisted for  the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2012 for a series of poems, Wounds and Grace, based on her time on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Her first book, Other Places (Salmon, 2014) was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award for Best First Collection in 2015. Her second collection, How the Weather Was, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2019. She is currently working on her third collection, due out in 2025.

Catriona Shine grew up in Ireland and now works as an architect in Oslo. She is a recipient of an Arts Council Literature Bursary Award 2023 and her writing has appeared in The Dublin Review, Channel, Southword and elsewhere. Her debut novel "Habitat" was positively reviewed in the Irish Independent, and Catriona Shine was listed as "one to watch" for 2024 by the Irish Times.
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