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Prayer

Marjorie Lotfi reads 'Prayer' by John Burnside, the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.

WritersMosaic Magazine | InSight

Sunila Galappatti’s cultural highlights

The dramaturg on the Akram Khan's Chotto Desh, Zarlasht Halaimzai on being a refugee, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascapes, Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats, Fats Domino On a Slow Boat to China and long distance trains.

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Right Now I’m Standing

Poet Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem 'Right Now I’m Standing'. Set in a woodland in the shadow of a plantation house, the film brings into focus Allen-Paisant’s reflections on Blackness and landscape. It's part of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Rob Akin.

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What We Leave We Carry

Adiam Yemane

Adiam Yemane recalls her shock of arrival in Britain and discovering women no longer wore Victorian dresses and garments.

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Guest Edition

Malcolm X, by any means necessary

Edited by Colin Grant

Before his assassination in 1965, Malcolm X, the spokesman for the Nation of Islam, inspired adoration and fear in the US with his powerful argument for self defence ‘by any means necessary’. For the centenary of Malcom X’s birth, writers in this guest edition explore his legacy as a resistance leader.

WritersMosaic Magazine | Reviews

Frank Bowling: Collage

The revered ninety-one-year-old painter explores collage as a conceptual tool.

All About Love

Mickalene Thomas's exhibition in praise of black women's beauty

Dream Count

In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, the path to desire is fraught with danger

Sister Midnight

Karan Kandhari's bizarre and humorous film breaks with the strictly gender-defined tropes of Bollywood

Review by Vayu Naidu

In the Shadow of the Cypress 

An Oscar-winning film's exploration of fractured familial relationships in post-war Iran

Sana Nassari

A House For Miss Pauline 

Diana McCaulay's creation of a fearless warrior

Review by Suzanne Harrington

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah's tale of a young Zanzibari trio caught between their dreams and their reality. 

Review by Franklin Nelson

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck’s startling film about the South African photographer Ernest Cole

Review by Roger Robinson

All We Imagine As Light

Payal Kapadia's poetic, meditative film of Mumbai’s working-class women and their resilience

Review by Danielle Papamichael

WritersMosaic Magazine | CloseUp

Tragic Magic

Reviving Wesley Brown's 1970s novel, a critique of masculinity and the American Dream that was way ahead of its time.

What went wrong with Emilia Pérez?

Why an operatic, oscar-nominated musical set in Mexico with a trans woman was side-lined.

Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa

The Peruvian writer whose pen was his weapon of choice

Forests Where Past & Present Meet

A return to Poland and remembrance of WW2 inspires compassion for today's refugees.

Maria Jastrzębska

Bread Loaf

Nick Makoha talks with the directors of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference about creating a writers' utopia.

Nick Makoha

The Empire in miniature 

Reflecting on the centenary of the British Empire Exhibition in Wimbledon, the imperial Disneyland

Miraya McCoy 

Marijuana Made Me

The quandary over an education funded by cannabis

Colin Grant

Chester Himes

Dream worlds, places where the importance of belief and hope chafe against the urgency of reality.

Franklin Nelson

A New Normal Aria

In my near-death experience, I touched light.

Renu Arora

Events

Featured event

WritersMosaic’s retreat in Italy, a collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation, gets underway

Six writers - Zebib K. Abraham, Jo Clement, Ming Ho, Nicole-Rachelle Moore, Vanessa Kisuule and Damian Le Bas - have begun work at Villa Lugara.

WritersMosaic Live

Book now for the Hay-on-Wye Festival in May. Find us at the Bradford Lit Festival in June, the British Library and the South Bank Centre in July, Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and Ilkley Lit Festival in October.

WritersMosaic Magazine | InSight
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Prayer

Marjorie Lotfi reads 'Prayer' by John Burnside, the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.

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Kubla Khan

In the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, poet Jo Clement reads, 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.

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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