The WritersMosaic Live podcast brings you front-row recordings from our live literary events. On tour across the UK at literary festivals, at the Southbank Centre and the British Library, these episodes capture unfiltered, wide-ranging conversations with contemporary British based writers redefining contemporary literature.
Mosaic Monologues Live Bradford
Loading Bay, Bradford Literature Festival
5 July 2026
WritersMosaic's series The Mosaic Monologues, which brings character-led storytelling into the global majority literary space, visited the Bradford Literary Festival. With John Siddique, Ishy Din, Tahmina Ali and music from Rory A. Green.
Stay in your lane?
The Conduit Club, London
29 September 2026
WritersMosaic Magazine celebrated its fifth anniversary at the Conduit Club, with the editor Colin Grant and the writers Will Harris, Maggie Gee, Hannah Lowe and Amy Abdelnoor.
What We Leave We Carry
Southbank Centre, London
26 August 2026
Colin Grant celebrated the WritersMosaic-inspired book, What We Leave We Carry, with storytellers and migrants Suzanne Harrington, Maria Jastrzębska, Amanda Vilanova and Clementine Burnley at Southbank Centre.
Meet the Pioneers: The Revolutionary Publishers
British Library, London
16 July 2026
A celebration of Jessica and Eric Huntley at the British Library, with Margaret Busby, Colin Grant, Alexander D Great, Beverley Mason, Lemara Lindsay-Prince and Lemn Sissay.
What We Leave We Carry
Hay Festival
29 May 2026
WritersMosaic celebrated the publication of the book What We Leave We Carry at the Hay Festival in May with a panel discussion chaired by the author Colin Grant, with the writers Amanda Vilanova, Eric Ngalle Charles and Suzanne Harrington.
Iranian Women’s Voices
British Library, London
16 March 2026
WritersMosaic recently presented an evening of poetry, film and music at the British Library in London to showcase Iranian Women's Voices, inspired by the poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad.
Poetry on Film
Conduit Club, London
10 February 2026
WritersMosaic partnered with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for a virtuosic evening of poetry and film at the Conduit Club in London.
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.