All the men my mother never married - read our latest #CloseUp, 'a chapter from an unpublished autobiography, dedicated to my mother, Sarah Efeti Kang, by @yomadene bit.ly/4jQCNh7

.@EdsonBurton shares his cultural highlights - read about Barbara Walker's breathtaking retrospective Being Here, Sinners from director Ryan Coogler, Rotary Connection 222, the freedom of St Paul's Carnival in Bristol, & @NickMakoha 'sThe New Carthaginians bit.ly/3NH4fSB

'Deafness has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through.' At the @edbookfest, poet @RaymondAntrobus talks to Colin Grant - our latest #InConversation out now bit.ly/3NtneA5

The Thing with Feathers - Dylan Southern’s film adaptation of Max Porter’s poetic novella Grief - puts masculinity front and centre, Magnus McDowall reviews bit.ly/49RviSM

It Was Just an Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film probes the relationship between individuals, the state and violence with determined humanism - Anahit Behrooz reviews bit.ly/4pLAZrn

Don't miss Sana Nassari's powerful review of Prisoner 951 - 'a quietly devastating miniseries based on the six-year ordeal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the Iranian regime's prisons', read in full here bit.ly/4pb9PKf

A former medical student yearns to have been familiar with the writing of Frantz Fanon who might have acted as a guide during his years of studies, @colincraiggrant.bsky.social on Inglan mad dem bit.ly/4aM0CEH

WritersMosaic and @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social present UK Global Majority Poets on Film LIVE at The Conduit, a virtuosic evening of poetry and film hosted by author and WritersMosaic Director @colincraiggrant.bsky.social - 10th Feb - booking now open bit.ly/4j9QDuX

Playwright Juliet Gilkes Romero takes us from the tweet that inspired her to write The Whip (2020) through to the play’s performance at the @the-rsc.bsky.social's Swan Theatre, in conversation with @colincraiggrant.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3YDv1gO

Our new original series has just launched: 'Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist'. Zebib K. Abraham asks, in this moment of rapid shift into authoritarian populism, what can we learn from Frantz Fanon in escaping traditional psychoanalytic thought? bit.ly/3KCkm2B

Alice Mah's memoir Red Pockets @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social confronts the climate crisis while dragging the reader back from the brink of despair @soozysuze.bsky.social reviews bit.ly/4iuQgun

A dream-like production set inside the subconscious mind of a high-flying, female reggae artist, Trish Cook reviews The Legends of Them written & performed by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee, directed by Jo McInnes - @LeedsPlayhouse bit.ly/4opblb6

A tribute to the life and legacy of pioneering Jamaican theatre director and actress Yvonne Brewster (1938-2025), who was a formidable presence in British theatre and established @TalawaTheatreCo, Patricia Cumper remembers bit.ly/48pu5Bb

A black man wants to escape Britain. After finding William Blake’s poetry in the airport bookshop, he has an encounter with a stranger that will end everything as he knows it - The Prophecy by Testament, part of a new audio drama series of unexpected tales bit.ly/4p1h48d

Poet Mimi Khalvati is the focus of episode 65 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. Mimi came to the UK as a child and has turned her home into a museum with memorabilia and artefacts from her family bit.ly/48ouZ18

Liberty Martin shares her cultural #HitList: photo exhibition LMK WHEN U REACH by Bernice Mulenga, Forever, Ya Girl from KeiyaA, Boy Parts by Eliza Clark as her favourite book of the year, series Under the Cover, and the wonder of Brixton Community Cinema bit.ly/3XA85yR

The photographer @misanharriman.bsky.social talks to Gabriel Gbadamosi about his exhibition The Purpose of Light, a series of black and white photos of demonstrators which he describes as an example of ‘observing humanity with his lens.’ Listen here bit.ly/4o9tOIH

'One stressful night, young TJ steps onto a bus with no destination – only to find himself on a journey that warps time and love in a chance encounter with a passenger', from Sapphire’s blues by Connor Allen, a Mosaic Monologue bit.ly/4qTShnY

In Soon Come, readers are treated to a narrative that has been, figuratively speaking, marinated in jerk seasoning. Robert Donald reviews Kuba Shand-Baptiste's debut novel bit.ly/4oVfi8h

In the latest production of The Harder They Come @stratfordeast.com, London, the musical depicts all of Jamaican life on stage with thrilling simplicity, @colincraiggrant.bsky.social reviews bit.ly/47j7lUk

Orna is the focus of episode 64 of What We Leave We Carry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. Orna is an actor who was born in Israel and moved to the US as a child before relocating to the UK bit.ly/47Rg6Fg

Veronica Chambers' cultural highlights: the legacy of Belle de Costa Greene's library, The Estate @nationaltheatre.org.uk, artist Yoshimoto Nara, Edward Lee's animations, the audiobook of Jane Austen's Persuasion, & Rewriting History by Fabiola Jean-Louis bit.ly/49wMOwQ

'I’m very privileged and fortunate to have worked in medicine because it gives you exposure to humanity in every incarnation', poet, novelist, lyricist and physician Suhayl Saadi talks to Bashabi Fraser about the journey of his polyphonic novel Psychoraag bit.ly/3Ll0VeK

We are proud to be introducing our new six-part audio drama series - Mosaic Monologues - featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales. We kick-start the series with Mara Menzies' Creation bit.ly/42R7BHv

Playwright Ishy Din and sacred teacher and writer @johnsiddique.bsky.social discuss their experience of directing and producing the new series, #MosaicMonologues, starting on 22 October and featuring six dramas commissioned by WritersMosaic bit.ly/4qkPp3g

Spoke about Malcolm X and his legacy with some brilliant panellists yesterday at the 2025 Birmingham Literature Festival. Thank you to the Writers Mosaic team for having me ! @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social @writersmosaic.bsky.social #birminghamlit2025

Writer @aniefiokekp.bsky.social reflects on diaspora and the fantasy of return through conversations with friends and strangers in #CloseUp, 'Wow, diaspora for real' bit.ly/4h9OhLp

In episode 63 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK, Hani Arnaout tells his story of how, after years of suffering under the Assad regime in Syria, he and his family found safety in Devon bit.ly/48W3DBa

‘To imagine a better world, we must first acknowledge that countless sacrifices have rendered society indifferent to injustice.’ Dr Laleh Atashi revisits Forough Farrokhzad’s ironic depiction of the ‘Frontier of Gems' featured ep. on Iranian Women's Voices bit.ly/4n5Mk4a

Miraya McCoy works as an editorial assistant on @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social’s philosophy list, here she shares her #HitList: the @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social, Blood Orange's album Essex Honey, Otherworlds by Federico Campagna and more bit.ly/3IDBynD

'How can we talk about our condition not as victims but saying do we really care? Yeah.' Love Ssega talks to Gabriel Gbadamosi about the power of art as activism and fighting for air #InConversation bit.ly/4mWAU2q

Author and journalist @soozysuze.bsky.social reviews The Quiet Ear by poet Raymond Antrobus, which explores what it is to be deaf in the world of the hearing bit.ly/46Ir3sr

The Quiet Ear by Raymond Antrobus review – growing up between two worlds

Author Clementine Ewokolo Burnley reviews Khalid Abdalla’s one-man show Nowhere @traversetheatre.bsky.social, and the questions it raises about belonging, citizenship and solidarity bit.ly/4gZ3r6o

What if we could connect with our past lives and change our futures in the process? Ekta Bajaj – co-founder AIM Literary Festival & Author in Me – turns our attention to grappling with this question in her latest novel Let the Fish Fly, Maame Blue reviews bit.ly/42M7xIT

In episode 56 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK, Mehredad, who came from Iran, says he feels the UK is welcoming, like a mother hen that takes all the chicks under her wings bit.ly/47X6g5h

'Conflicts I witnessed as a migrant child have stayed with me', Ethiopian-British actor, playwright & filmmaker Beru Tessema talks to Jonny Wright, about his film Lions and play Wolves on Road @westendtheatre.com bit.ly/46BJxuh

'A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common.' Dalia Al-Dujaili talks to Gabriel Gbadamosi about her new book, Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration @saqibooks.bsky.social bit.ly/48gvrQg

The novelist, essayist & translator Jhumpa Lahiri @Jhumpalahiri01 talks with Franklin Nelson about exophony - the act of crossing linguistic borders for a writer, and other stories, out now on #CloseUp bit.ly/48roPi7

‘My mother’s last words to me were, 'There is a giant in you and a weakling. Don't let the weakling prevail.’ Shara Atashi takes a poem by Forough Farrokhzad as a starting point for her reflections on women and Iranian identity, out now on #WritersMosaic bit.ly/4giUm82

We’re proud to support Contains Strong Language 🎤✨ Bradford’s festival of poetry, spoken word & performance, 18–21 Sept. 50+ FREE events: BBC broadcasts, workshops, new writing & exclusive performances - incl. our own John Siddique. Book now 👉 bradford2025.co.uk/event/contai...

My latest piece for @writersmosaic.bsky.social, exploring my 1st visit to Shanghai (at long last), in search of my family’s past, & time spent on the WritersMosaic retreat in Italy: writersmosaic.org.uk/close-up/voy... #migration #China #revolution #textileindustry #lilong #longtang #memoir

Louis Menand reviews new biography of James Baldwin by Nicholas Boggs in The New Yorker. The collection on Baldwin I edited last year for @writersmosaic.bsky.social is available here: writersmosaic.org.uk/content/goin...

Check out Jade E Bradford's hit list: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Yepoka Yeebo's Anansi’s Gold, Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Tour, Ryan Coogler's Sinners, The @hayfestival.bsky.social and Portmeirion in North Wales, find out more here bit.ly/4obszdl

'I like to say I wanted to become a writer from the moment I was born but maybe that wasn't quite true.' Meet Candy Gourlay in conversation with Sita Brahmachari discussing making the ordinary world extraordinary and more bit.ly/3GOu1kO

Marking the centenary of the birth of the revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, our director @colincraiggrant.bsky.social, was joined by Ekow Eshun, Clementine E Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu & Donna Thompson @britishlibrary.bsky.social, missed it? Here's a flavour bit.ly/3T7setG

We are all northern now! Join us on Friday 11 July for a night of music, poetry & discussion at Southbank Centre inspired by @lanre-bakare.bsky.social's celebrated cultural history, shining a spotlight on extraordinary Black lives in once-rich cities, info & tickets here bit.ly/4lFuWCQ

‘Before the red ink disappears’: artists and writers in Tehran face an uncertain future - moving and important reflections by our friend and writer Sana Nassari in ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/4k6fBdl

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

Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. Join us on 3rd July @britishlibrary.bsky.social as we reflect on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed and the musician Donna Thompson - get your tickets here bit.ly/3T7setG