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Steve
Cillian Murphy stars in a bruising film adapted from Shy, a novella by Max Porter. Murphy plays a troubled but compassionate head teacher in a innovative school for teenagers who are otherwise destined for prison.
Veronica Chambers’ cultural highlights
The author on the legacy of librarian Belle da Costa Greene, The Estate at the National Theatre, her love for the artist Yoshitomo Nara, the audiobook of Persuasion by Jane Austen, and Rewriting History by artist Fabiola Jean-Louis.
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.
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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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
The Harder They Come
In the latest production of The Harder They Come at Stratford East, London, the musical depicts all of Jamaican life on stage with thrilling simplicity.
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
The seven lamps of writing
I write because I am, and I write because I am not
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?'
In defence of Black History Month
Is it time to bring an end to the UK's Black History Month?
In appreciation of Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was interested in everything, from telepathic communication to murderous families with lack of self-awareness
A close encounter with accents
An investigation of the consequences of speaking with a foreign accent in your adopted country
The last days
'A version of this life is ending. I’m in the last days. This may be the last essay I write as childless novelist.'
In Olney River
Exploring the feeling of being watched by white families as a black man, while submerged in Olney River
Time was loud
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
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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