We Were There at the Southbank Centre
What would Britain look like if we turned it on its head and the north had all the money and attention? WritersMosaic's night of music, poetry and discussion at the Southbank Centre was inspired by Lanre Bakare’s celebrated cultural history of extraordinary Black lives in once-rich cities.
Frantz Fanon the freedom fighter – at the British Library
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. At the British Library on 3 July, WritersMosaic marked the centenary of his birth, reflecting on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu and the musician Donna Thompson.
We Were There: at the Hay Festival
An evening of music poetry, prose and poetry with Pauline Black, Malika Booker, Lanre Bakare and Daudi Matsiko
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’s retreat in collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation gets underway
Writers chosen for the WritersMosaic/Hawthornden Foundation retreat in Shropshire begin work at Arvon's The Hurst.
Malcolm X: by any means necessary
For the centenary of Malcolm X’s birth, WritersMosaic, in collaboration with the British Library and the Eccles Institute, brings together writers and performers to explore Malcolm X's legacy as a resistance leader.
Alex Wheatle remembered
The writer Alex Wheatle has died. WritersMosaic pays tribute to Alex with a remembrance of his appearance at the 2023 Ilkley Festival with Susan Pitter and Colin Grant.
Cybernetics and ghosts
WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, returned to the British Library for its latest evening exploring the digital future of writing. In a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, writers responded to the challenges that AI poses to our lives and literature.
Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
A 2-tone story