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 - began 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, brought together writers and performers to explore Malcolm X's legacy as a resistance leader.
Alex Wheatle remembered
The writer Alex Wheatle has died. WritersMosaic paid 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 new documentary focuses on the pioneering singer and author Pauline Black who, with the band The Selecter, was central in the late 1970s to the rise of 2-tone music and the revival of Ska. Ahead of her Hay-on-Wye appearance in May with WritersMosaic, she talked with Gabriel Gbadamosi about bearing witness to historical and contemporary British racial politics.Malcolm X: By any means necessary
Celebrating the life and activism of the revolutionary Malcolm X
Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
At Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's recent event at the British Library, Monique Roffey, Safiya Sinclair and Kevin Jared Hosein reflected on how the most intimate relations are shaped by conflicts in the Caribbean.
‘I live in memory’
by Franklin Nelson
Jamaica Kincaid is a former New Yorker staff writer and prize-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. She talks with Franklin Nelson about how her childhood and adolescence in the then British colony of Antigua has inspired her latest book, An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, in collaboration with the artist, Kara Walker.