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Derek Owusu’s cultural highlights
The London-based writer's hit list, from Toni Morrison's novel Beloved to the album Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend.
Derek Owusu’s cultural highlights
The writer on Beloved by Toni Morrison as his 'perfect novel', being a latecomer to Breaking Bad, his love for Tottenham, healing through the album Sam Cooke - Portrait of a Legend and racking up 150 hours playing Expedition 33.
Stay in your lane?
Writers are increasingly told to stay in the lane of their expertise or imagined racial group. WritersMosaic interrogates this notion by asking nine writers how they attempt to think beyond the parameters of their cultural identity, or to address why they might find it problematic. In doing so, they reflect on the limits of empathy and the risks and rewards of straying from your lane.
Download WritersMosaic Quarterly 06 as published in The Bookseller September 2026
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Thinking white
Challenging the all-pervasive, internalised voice of whiteness in order to 'think black'.
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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.
Fiction Prescriptions
Great novels offer insights into the human condition but can they also be tools for living? Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy provide bibliotherapy in our new podcast series. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from novels, poetry and prose collections.
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Money
Is money more important in societies today than it was 20 years ago? Ella and Isabelle use fiction to unpack how money can be either a tool or a hindrance and look at how attitudes towards money have changed over time.
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Death of the Soccer God
The 'uneven' novel on the disappeared Haitian footballer, Joseph Edouard Gaetjens
Haunting the Black Air
Poetic freedom across space and time
The Disappearers
A sprawling visceral experience that drops you in head first
On Snow
'The mind inevitably seeks a reenactment of the teal light I associate with home'
It’s being published I get paid for; the writing I would do for free
‘Any advance [...] for your novel is to compensate you for the horrors of being published'
Complex antihero: an interview with Arthur Hughes
Unravelling Authur Hughes' Richard III
What’s in a feminist? Holding on to Gloria Steinem
Is Gloria Steinem's feminism still relevant today?
A tribute to Bonnie Greer
Founding editor of WritersMosaic Gabriel Gbadamosi pays tribute to Bonnie Greer, the extraordinary writer, public intellectual and much admired contributor to WritersMosaic who died on 15 September, 2026.
Events
Events podcast
Mosaic Monologues Live Bradford
WritersMosaic's series The Mosaic Monologues, which brings character-led storytelling into the global majority literary space, visited the Bradford Literary Festival. With John Siddique, Ishy Din, Tahmina Ali and music from Rory A. Green.
WritersMosaic Live
Join us on tour in 2026
Find out more about the literary festivals we’re visiting this year
Fruity
A darkly comic crime short film written by and starring Delon Jessop and directed by James Baines.
Free Will
Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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WritersMosaic interrogates the notion of ‘staying in your lane’ by asking writers how they attempt to think beyond the parameters of their cultural identity.
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