Spotlight
In Conversation
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.
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.
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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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
Let the Fish Fly
A journey to an ashram in the Himalayas leads to a stronger understanding of self in Ekta Bajaj's novel.
Speaking in Tongues
JM Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos discuss political and ethical issues of translation
Mahsa Salali: THE CALL: MUBĀH مُباح
A theatrical performance, a sequence of ceremonial actions that redefines the body’s presence
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
The Black Mirror
An evocative piece about an estate agent who 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
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
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
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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).
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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