Malcolm X at 100
Edinburgh International Book Festival
24 August 2025
From the Civil Rights movement to post-colonial struggles, Malcolm X's words and life ignite and inspire change.
We Were There
Southbank Centre, London
11 July 2025
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
British Library, London
3 July 2025
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
Hay Festival
30 May 2025
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
Villa Lugara, Italy
May 2025
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
The Hurst, Shropshire
21–26 April 2025
Writers chosen for the WritersMosaic/Hawthornden Foundation retreat in Shropshire begin work at Arvon's The Hurst.
Malcolm X: by any means necessary
British Library, London
7 March 2025
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
Ilkley Literature Festival
15 October 2023
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
British Library, London
5 December 2023
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
Online
3 March 2025
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.