We are delighted to announce details of the next event in our Second Tuesday Series, a series of online events taking place on the second Tuesday of every month.
The series is intended to offer writers a space to gather, share their experiences, and learn from one another. All events will be run online via Zoom from 7pm.
The series features writers in conversation, discussion with participants, as well as craft seminars.
Dates for upcoming events are as follows:
Tuesday June 9th, 7pm-8.15pm – Danielle McLaughlin & Caitríona Lally in conversation with Declan Meade
Writers Danielle McLaughlin and Caitríona Lally join Declan Meade to discuss their recent books and writing life.
This is a free event taking place online via zoom. Registration is required for all to attend. To register, please click here.
Danielle McLaughlin is the author of the short-story collection, Dinosaurs on Other Planets, and the novel, The Art of Falling, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. She has been Writer in Residence at University College Cork and Visiting Writer Fellow at the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College, Dublin. She has also designed and delivered workshops in Creative Writing for various organisations and festivals and currently mentors a number of emerging writers. Her novel Rituals was published by The Stinging Fly Press in April 2026.
Caitríona Lally has published two novels, Eggshells (2015) and Wunderland (2021). She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2018 and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 2019. She was the inaugural Rooney Writer Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2022, and was one of the 2024 New Voices 20 Best New Irish Writers. Her first memoir, Home Economics, was recently published by New Island.
Our Second Tuesday Series will resume in September after a summer break.
- Tuesday September 8th, 7pm – Claire Kilroy in conversation with Declan Meade
- Tuesday October 13th, 7pm – Sinead Morrissey (Poetry Seminar)
More details to follow.
Past events:
Tuesday March 10th, 7pm – On Mentoring with Tom Morris, Enda Wyley and Elaine Garvey
Free event
Three writers at different stages of their careers, Enda Wyley, Thomas Morris, and Elaine Garvey, will join our publisher Declan Meade to discuss their experiences of being mentored and mentoring others. They will offer insights into how mentoring works and the ways in which it can contribute to a writer’s development.
Tuesday April 14th, 7pm – Writing Spaces with Danny Denton, Mia Gallagher and Sheila Armstrong
Free event
Following Joshua Rothman’s recent New Yorker article, ‘Do You Need A Writer’s Room?’, April’s Second Tuesday Series event will feature Mia Gallagher in conversation with fellow writers Sheila Armstrong and Danny Denton on the topic of Writing Spaces. The discussion will explore the concept of the ‘writer’s room’ and the perceived importance of having access to a dedicated writing space.
Tuesday May 12th, 7pm-8.30pm – Writing Summary v Writing Scenes with Tessa Hadley
‘One of the key aspects of writing short stories or novels is pacing. In constructing a narrative, one of the many choices a writer must make is between providing summarised descriptions of the flow of events over time, or plunging the reader into particular scenes, which will seem to happen slowly, blow by blow, in front of the reader’s mind’s eye. These are two different approaches to creating the illusion of life occurring – and time passing – on the page. It’s easy for writers to get stuck in an exhausting habit of writing ‘scene after scene’; but it can be tiresome too if the fiction never touches down in time, if it only summarises everything.
For this session, we’ll start by talking about the different energy of writing summary and scenes, by looking at a story by Mavis Gallant called ‘1933’ (it’s in a new Pushkin Press selection I’ve made of her stories, called The Latehomecomer).’
Tessa Hadley has published eight novels, including The Past, Late in the Day, and Free Love, three collections of short stories and, most recently, a novella, The Party. Her short stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, and she reviews for The Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and the Edge Hill Prize in 2018.