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
Malcolm X: By any means necessary
Celebrating the life and activism of the revolutionary Malcolm X
Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's European tour a few months ago included an event at the British Library chaired by Colin Grant.
‘I live in memory’
by Franklin Nelson
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić at the Tirana Film Festival
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić reflect on the highlights from this year's Tirana Film festival in the Albanian capital where Goran Gocić was also one of the judges.
The Life, Writing & Legacy of James Baldwin
Celebrations of the centenary of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin continue at the Cambridge Literary Festival
Clementine E Burnley wins James Berry Poetry Prize
Clementine E Burnley is one of the winners of this year's James Berry Poetry Prize. Here Clementine reads from 'Berber for Water', from her first pamphlet Radical Pairings which was published by Ignition Press in 2023.