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Yvonne Brewster remembered
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 the Talawa Theatre Company.
Liberty Martin’s cultural highlights
The writer on the photography exhibition LMK WHEN U REACH by Bernice Mulenga, the album Forever, Ya Girl from KeiyaA, Boy Parts by Eliza Clark as her favourite book of the year, the video series Under the Cover, and the wonder of Brixton Community Cinema.
Mosaic Monologues
A six-part audio drama series featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales. The short monologues range from a protagonist whose fear becomes a gremlin-like creature inhabiting their body, to a life-changing encounter at an airport when attempting to escape the toxicity of the UK.
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The prophecy
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.
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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.
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khlavati came to the UK from Iran as a child and has turned her home into a museum with memorabilia and artifacts from her family.
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Red Pockets
Alice Mah's memoir confronts the climate crisis while dragging the reader back from the brink of despair
The Legends of Them
A dream-like production set inside the subconscious mind of a high-flying, female reggae artist
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
The Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted novel is a beautiful exploration of love and loneliness between two young people
The Jollof House Party Opera
A joyful, multisensory feast that immerses audiences as active participants in a bustling restaurant kitchen
Kerry James Marshall: The Histories
Kerry James Marshall's paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts preserve the enigma of African Americans whilst humanising them
Steve
The film adaptation of Max Porter's novella Shy is not a story about middle-class adults rescuing troubled youth; the grown-ups aren’t okay
Impulse: Playing with Reality
A mixed reality experience by Anagram that journeys into the ADHD mind
Soon Come
In Soon Come, readers are treated to a narrative that has been, figuratively speaking, marinated in jerk seasoning
Édouard Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
The rewards of reading the deliberately complex texts of the Antillian philosopher Édouard Glissant
Yvonne Brewster remembered
Remembering the life and legacy of the pioneering Jamaican theatre director and actress Yvonne Brewster
Jodhpurs, Tweeds and Monocles
Inheriting the patterns of life marked into second-hand clothing
On not becoming an army officer
'To this day, every time someone tells me they are an officer in the army, I first look at their knees.'
Anna Freud at the Freud Museum
An appreciation of Anna Freud's pioneering work as a child psychologist and her place in the Freud Museum, London
The lorry
'What if it was a phantom lorry, and my grandfather, who always showed an interest in my writing, had driven it here from the afterlife to make sure I was hitting my targets every day?'
Events
Featured event
Malcolm X at 100: at the Edinburgh Festival
To mark the centenary of Malcom X's birth, WritersMosaic partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025 to delve into his enduring role as a revolutionary and a symbol of defiance.
WritersMosaic Live
Find out more about the literary festivals we're visiting this year
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).
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.
Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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Creative women in Iran and the diaspora reflect on the state of Iran and dream for the future.
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For the centenary of Malcom X’s birth, writers in this guest edition explore his legacy as a resistance leader.
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