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Nowhere

Review by author Clementine Ewokolo Burnley of Khalid Abdalla’s one-man show Nowhere, and the questions it raises about belonging, citizenship and solidarity.

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Sophie Jai’s cultural highlights

The author Sophie Jai on Thievery Corporation's The Richest Man in Babylon, 'Shadow Prince' by the poet Farah Ghafoor, the Sangam House writing residency in India, the play Take d Milk, Nah? by Jivesh Parasram, and Anthony Joseph as her favourite WritersMosaic writer.

Iranian women's voices

Inspired by the poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), creative women in Iran and the diaspora reflect on art and the constraints of present-day Iran and dream for the future, edited by Shara Atashi, Sana Nassari and Marjorie Lotfi.

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Revisiting Forough Farrokhzad’s ironic depiction of the ‘Frontier of Gems’

Dr Laleh Atashi revisits Forough Farrokhzad's poem ‘O, You Frontier of Gems’ 60 years after her death.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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What We Leave We Carry

Hani Arnaout

Hani tells his story of how after years of suffering under the Assad regime in Syria, he and his family found safety in Devon.

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Nowhere

Khalid Abdalla’s one-man show Nowhere, raises questions of 'Who do we feel responsible for?' and ‘What [is] a life worth?’

The Booker Prize 2025: a public shortlist, a private thrill

The poet and translator Sana Nassari reflects on the excitement among the more than 2,000 people attending the Royal Festival Hall event announcing the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025

Late Shift

Following nurse Floria over a late shift as her journey spirals out of control

Let the Fish Fly

A journey to an ashram in the Himalayas leads to a stronger understanding of self in Ekta Bajaj's novel.

Review by Maame Blue

Speaking in Tongues

JM Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos discuss political and ethical issues of translation

Review by Daniel Rey

Mahsa Salali: THE CALL: MUBĀH مُباح

A theatrical performance, a sequence of ceremonial actions that redefines the body’s presence

Review by Sana Nassari

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Representing the visual marginalisation of Roma life

Review by Franklin Nelson

Empire Without End

 A New History of Britain and the Caribbean

Review by Max Farrar

Retrograde

A question of compromise in the rise of Sidney Poitier

Theatre review by Vayu Naidu

WritersMosaic Magazine | CloseUp

Writing in Emilia-Romagna

Writer, educator and curator Nicole-Rachelle Moore on her time at the WritersMosaic Villa Lugara writing retreat in northern Italy

The Black Mirror

An evocative piece by writer Suhayl Saadi about an estate agent as she visits a property on her list that she hoped would never sell

Lucha Libre

The spectacle of Lucha Libre, Mexico’s famous, masked, freestyle, professional wrestling, as experienced by Michael McMillan

Imperfect Speakers

Jhumpa Lahiri: Understanding Exophonic Women

Franklin Nelson interviews Jhumpa Lahiri

My dead white male artist

A love story in three paintings

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

A flag as a broken mirror

Encountering men attempting to claim the Union and St George’s flags as signifiers of the far-right, John Siddique turns to a patron saint of his bookshelf, James Baldwin, for guidance

John Siddique

Carefully remembering as healing

Tending to the legend of forgotten Black Londoner Mary Woolaston

Ella Sinclair

Playing with your white hairs

Remembering Mr Paddy, an uncle who was more like a father

Eric Ngalle Charles

Where We Come From

An extract from Aniefiok Ekpoudom's social history of British rap

Aniefiok Ekpoudom

Events

Featured event

Frantz Fanon the freedom fighter – at the British Library

Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. At the British Library on 3 July, WritersMosaic marked the centenary of his birth, reflecting on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu and the musician Donna Thompson.

WritersMosaic Live

Find out more about the literary festivals we're visiting this year

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Preaching

'Preaching': A new poem by the T.S.Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, from his forthcoming New and Selected Poems (Bloomsbury in 2026).

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Walking in the Wake

Walking in the Wake was produced for the Estuary Festival (2021) in collaboration with Elsa James, Dubmorphology and Michael McMillan who meditates on the River Thames as we follow black pilgrims traversing sites of Empire.

WritersMosaic Magazine | Podcasts

Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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