Spotlight

Original Series

Stay in your lane?

WritersMosaic's new original series interrogates the notion of 'staying in your lane' 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 Conversation

Basma Ghalayini: 'Because we're continually being bombed and occupied, there's curfews, there's strikes, we can't just stop every time something like this happens or we'll never do anything.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

My Hit List

One person's reading, watching, listening and visiting

Naneh Hovhannisyan’s cultural highlights

The writer on the humanness of Marina Abramović's performance The Artist is Present, the play English by Sanaz Toossi, the mesmerising documentary film 1489 from Shoghakat Vardanyan, connecting to Ireland through Fintan O'Toole's book We Don't Know Ourselves and the painting 'Salome' by Vardges Surenyants.

Tahmima Anam’s cultural highlights

Sasha Darvas’ cultural highlights

Raffaella Sero’s cultural highlights

Meredith Davis’ cultural highlights

WritersMosaic Original Series

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

Edited by Colin Grant

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Editorial

by Colin Grant

The prescience of Staying Power: in praise of Peter Fryer

by Colin Grant

Reading for Carnival

by Magnus McDowall

Beyond Baldwin

by Taíno Mendez

Scuffing the lines

by Naomi Foyle

Cul-de-sacs of the mind

by Chitra Ramaswamy

Thinking white

by Will Harris

On finding kinship in difference

by Amy Abdelnoor

A matter of survival

by Maggie Gee

Not another poem about my father

by Hannah Lowe

Featured episode

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.

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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’.

3 mins

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

3 mins

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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