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In Conversation

Sanjoy K Roy in conversation with Vayu Naidu

The writer, editor and publisher, Sanjoy K Roy, talks with Vayu Naidu about his haunting memoir, There's a Ghost in My Room.

In Conversation

Sanjoy K Roy: 'A thousand years later, it appears we'd all chosen to be reborn together in this lifetime, to work through out entangled karma and find ways to forget and heal.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Dean Atta: 'They won't be here forever, maybe just as long as this poem. These two Black boys in paradise.'

In conversation with Delon Jessop

Misan Harriman: 'I agree with Robert Frank who said about photography, “the eye should learn to listen before it looks.”'

In conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi

Zakia Sewell: 'I was in Wales over the weekend, and you see the Welsh flag everywhere. And it elicits a very different response in me to the St George's Cross, which is ostensibly my flag.'

In conversation with Colin Grant

Sanjoy K Roy: 'A thousand years later, it appears we'd all chosen to be reborn together in this lifetime, to work through out entangled karma and find ways to forget and heal.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Dean Atta: 'They won't be here forever, maybe just as long as this poem. These two Black boys in paradise.'

In conversation with Delon Jessop

Misan Harriman: 'I agree with Robert Frank who said about photography, “the eye should learn to listen before it looks.”'

In conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi

Zakia Sewell: 'I was in Wales over the weekend, and you see the Welsh flag everywhere. And it elicits a very different response in me to the St George's Cross, which is ostensibly my flag.'

In conversation with Colin Grant

The emerging writer and DJ on the mysterious novel The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, the Indian restaurant Bundobust, nights out at Otra's loft parties, rugby league's Magic Weekend and 'The Great Moving Right Show' by Stuart Hall.

Helena Geilinger’s cultural highlights

Yiyang Zhao’s cultural highlights

Louise Mulvey’s cultural highlights

Kuba Shand-Baptiste’s cultural highlights

WritersMosaic Original Series

Everyone has an elsewhere

Remembrance is central to memoir writing, but our memories are often unreliable. Psychologists assert that as every time we recount an episode in our lives it is often tweaked and subtly fictionalised. In ‘Everyone has an elsewhere’, nine writers answer the challenge of writing without verifiable facts and few sources. They explore the elusive emotional truth behind narratives and storytelling.

Download WritersMosaic Quarterly 05 as published in The Bookseller June 2026

Edited by Colin Grant

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Editorial

by Colin Grant

Searching for Nelsa Lowe

by Hannah Lowe

Sketches from the edges

by Naneh Hovhannisyan

Think pathology?

by Colin Grant

Forests where past and present meet

by Maria Jastrzębska

My father’s places

by Mirza Waheed

Luc and Peggy

by Suzanne Harrington

Anna Freud at the Freud Museum

by Andy Bay

King Herod in Florida

by Isabelle Dupuy

Devotion

by Sarah Issever

Featured episode

My father’s places

A son's remembrance of his father through idyllic seasons at a Kashmir mountain resort.

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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.

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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.

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Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

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Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

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Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

WritersMosaic Original Series

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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