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Ishy Din in conversation with John Siddique

Playwright Ishy Din and sacred teacher and writer John Siddique discuss their experience of directing and producing the new series, Mosaic Monologues, starting on 22 October and featuring six dramas commissioned by WritersMosaic.

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Miraya McCoy’s cultural highlights

Miraya McCoy on the Cursed Objects podcast, Blood Orange's album Essex Honey, Otherworlds by Federico Campagna, the artist Behzad Dehno, and Vicky Lindo and William Brookes' Dead Dad Book.

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

Orna

Orna is an actor who was born in Israel and moved to the US as a child before relocating to the UK.

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WritersMosaic Magazine | Reviews

Love forms

The experience of silently reading Claire Adam’s Love Forms is one of immense and daunting loneliness

The Quiet Ear

The Quiet Ear by poet Raymond Antrobus explores what it is to be deaf in the world of the hearing through his own upbringing and the lives of other deaf artists

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

Sana Nassari

Late Shift

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

Amanda Vilanova

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

WritersMosaic Magazine | CloseUp

In Olney River

Exploring the feeling of being watched by white families as a black man, while submerged in Olney River

Time was loud

Zebib K. Abraham on breaking free from the stifling demands for efficiency and learning to lean into time at the WritersMosaic Villa Lugara retreat

Wow, diaspora for real

Reflections on diaspora and the fantasy of return through conversations with friends and strangers

Writing in Emilia-Romagna

Nicole-Rachelle Moore on her time at the WritersMosaic Villa Lugara writing retreat in northern Italy

Nicole-Rachelle Moore

The Black Mirror

An evocative piece about an estate agent who visits a property on her list that she hoped would never sell

Suhayl Saadi

Lucha Libre

The spectacle of Lucha Libre, Mexico’s famous, masked, freestyle, professional wrestling

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

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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