A new meditation for you - recorded in a live setting so a bit chatty but is very supportive in helping to@support your mental and emotional health and bring you insight in your life @insighttimer Love to you this day John Please Share With Those You Feel Might Benefit From This Practice

‘For me literature has always been my country, and the flag of my soul is the only one I’m prepared to stand for. ’https://johnsiddique.substack.com/p/on-writing-an-impossible-piece

An incredible day in the recording studio producing Tahmina Ali and Connor Allen for a new audio series I’ve been blessed to exec produce with Ishy Din for writersmosaic / royalliteraryfund - launching soon Can’t wait you all to hear this series - it’s very special indeed. #fujifilmx100vi

The Only Way Out is Though #fujifilmx100vi #photograhy

Woke at five and wrote for hours on a piece that is rewriting my entire existence as an author. Whether the piece when done - and I’ve got a long time frame - is releasable or not… it’s like a new author’s heart is being born out of my old one and it’s fire.

Six Images From A Peace Garden open.substack.com/pub/johnsidd...

This Sept 🙏🏽

Non celeb author publishes children’s book Have actually been here with my kids’ book - not a word if a lie here #priateeye #books

you are invited to The best lil' ole pointing to the truth of self on the internet well we're okay - what is best? we turn up we're for real we're not living a social media life of meme and we like people... Obviously not for everybody and we never try to be.

Early morning - listening to the birds outside in tbe rain and allowing room to hear my own soul and life again after a week down the literary mines of book voices. #photography #fujifilm100vi

Preps for #globalcrimequeens @writersmosaic.bsky.social Saima Mir Nadine Mathieson Kia Abdullah at the mighty #bradfordlitfest this coming Sunday You’d better be there or they’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse haha

Handwritten dedication of the closing verse we use at the end of all our practices - sent to us by a beloved student dedicated to living with awareness in their own sweet human life. #meditation #awakening #love

Arrival @bradfordlitfest greenroom. Coffee & literary considerations Thank you for this blessed treasure of a life Thank you each and every reader John #books Eagled eyed readers will spot a very very rare copy of The Devil’s Lunchbox

A must-read, @johnsiddique.bsky.social in @thebookseller.com 👇🏽

Yours truly in the bookseller Talking on how The Royal Literary Fund & @writersmosaic.bsky.social and my work in the north is developing a better landscape for authors and readers. www.thebookseller.com/comment/faci...

In this event, we will discuss how counterterrorism laws and surveillance reshaped civil liberties, the impact on British Muslim identity. 📅 - Sunday 29 June 🏛️ - Bradford Live Book your tickets here: 🔗 www.bradfordlitfest.... #SevenSeven #BradfordLitFest

A glorious sunlit morning and the postman brings the summer issue of The Author magazine. Where yours truly discusses both the beautiful & yet oftentimes difficult aspects of the writer’s life, and we gently suggest a meditation practice that can really support our creative and ordinary lives.

The best way to increase your practice is to dedicate your turning up in life for the truest illumination and benefit of all beings This card is available as a free download for Open Space Members and will be more generally available soon. #meditation

Dear Ones - Date Change - Apologies Due to an unforseeable clash of dates we are going to have to move this month's meditation and Satsang to a day earlier. We hope you still can join us in this circle of sanity, peace and awareness - especially with the world in such current turmoil.

Love it when the postman knocks and it’s a book I really really want to read for an event I’m putting together. #malcolmx #books

Are there any journals that re-publish poems that were lost to now-defunct journals?

My latest review is of the #johnlennon & #yokoono documentary One to One. An insightful look at the Ono-Lennon’s move to New York in search of a cause and to try to find Yoko’s daughter from her 1st marriage Read It At WritersMosaic writersmosaic.org.uk/reviews/one-...

Early Sunday afternoon cassette time with this underrated lovely

At #eseacontemporary last evening w/ #PayamSharifi of #slavsandtatars art collective #royalliteraryfund @writersmosaic.bsky.social

Heck of a day down both literary and sacred mines of work and throughout all appearances- there is only this. 🙏🏽 #polaroid

Starting the day tidying the bookshelves - I have both English and French version of #philippedjian beautiful #book 37.2 Le Matin known in UK as #bettyblue Sadly my French reading ability has atrophied. This book changed something in me. Was going to thrift this copy but now not sure I want to.

Getting a glimpse of what’s current in #literature - reading for the upcoming @writersmosaic.bsky.social Global Crime Queens event @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social and keeping my roots fed with a beautiful new copy of an old favourite #books #fujifilmx100vi #photography

#Meditation Date For Your Diary Join us in our monthly circle of stillness and truth - where we meet life as it is and reconnect with the quiet depth of our being. This space is a place to rest in awareness, to see beyond the noise, and to return to the simple, unshakable essence of what you are.

A mini photo zine of an inner story Over on the stack of my sub #photography johnsiddique.substack.com/p/seeing-the...

An important piece by Ella Sinclair about the value of #WritersMosaic and our new WritersMosaic Quarterly in @artsprofessional.co.uk @thebookseller.com

Publishing often pigeonholes writers of colour within racial boundaries. But new platforms like WritersMosaic Quarterly are creating vital space for unbounded expression, experimentation and literary freedom, writes Ella Sinclair.

'Malcolm X - By Any Means Necessary' @writersmosaic.bsky.social Edited by @colincraiggrant.bsky.social & featuring texts by Bonnie Greer, Vayu Naidu, Vanessa Kisuule, Ekow Eshun, Max Farrar, Ella Sinclair, Franklin Nelson, and myself. writersmosaic.org.uk/content/malc... #malcolmx #books

Almost a quarter (22%) of top execs in the UK TV industry went to private school – a figure triple that of the roughly 7.5% of people in the UK who went to a fee-paying school. Full report: deadline.com/2025/05/tv-w...

Richard Brautigan

Awaken Right Where You Are (Walking Meditation) A short walking #meditation on being and #seeing from deep awareness youtu.be/XIQGZGuhCMs

Coming 19th May on our S u b s t a c k to mark Malcolm X’s 100th birthday - The hard hitting, uncut version of ‘Burn It Down’ - An autofiction on the effect on this author of reading Malcolm’s autobiography in the 1980s. An abridged version appeared in the UK’s Bookseller magazine this week.

OUT TODAY! The new WritersMosaic Quarterly, published as an insert in The Bookseller.

Learning to navigate change can sometimes be a great challenge. This #meditation will help you dive deep below the surface of change, allowing for a more immersive exploration of the heart of #love and #acceptance, amidst the buffering & uncertainty of change. insighttimer.com/authenticliv...

woke up and wrote - 6am now and feels like the days work is done, now the day jobs (I have two of those) await...

Yours truly is featured on the Royal Literary Fund substack today, sharing about his writing life. I do share a few secrets. Please share! Visibility is vital to do this work supporting authors via RLF & WritersMoasaic #books #writingcommunity royalliteraryfund.substack.com/p/my-writing...

Wake Up A day of life inside and outside of you You are both Wishing you a blessed engaged day of life dear one John

Some reflections on working as a writer in prisons. A piece from my archive. open.substack.com/pub/johnsidd... #literature #books #writing #lifeinprison #prison #reading #opera

'We do not get the news from poetry yet people die everyday for lack of what is found there.’ William Carlos Williams

Himself talking with Lanre Bakare from @theguardian.com about his debut book We Were There. Looking at missing history books, and how black culture and resistance outside of London have shaped UK culture. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... #books #writing #culture #royalliteraryfund

Another day in Literature Land. just commissioning several writers to create new monologues for us to publish, & in the midst getting grant monies to create retreat spaces for writers of high literary values. and lots more. Plus our move into physical publishing is well on the way.

In challenging times, choosing to meditate and live with presence, love, and genuine connection is perhaps the sanest, most courageous act available to us. Community deepens our practice—when we come together, we create a circle of belonging, lighting a gentle path home for each other.

This is a quote that arose during this month's Open Space Satsang recording. I invite you to sit with it for a moment or five and imagine it not just personally but nationally and globally. Love John Feel Free To Grab and Share

a 10 minute #meditation for anyone suffering with #exam or study stresses www.tiktok.com/@john_siddiq...

Day full of literary activity to benefit writers in UK, all background stuff that will never get any press but is part of making life better, not just for writers but for for culture in general.