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.
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.
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.
Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
British Library, London
11 October 2024
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.
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić’s Tirana Film Festival highlights
Tirana Film Festival
28 September 2024
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 and Legacy of James Baldwin
Old Divinity School, Cambridge Literary Festival
23 November 2024
Celebrations of the centenary of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin continued at the Cambridge Literary Festival. Erica Wagner chaired a panel focusing on works such as No Name in the Street and Giovanni's Room.
Claude McKay, from Harlem to Marseille
British Film Institute, London
28 September 2024
Claude McKay, a leading light of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, travelled widely but struggled to live by his pen. At the British Film Institute in London, Burt Caesar was joined by writers to discuss a new documentary on McKay.
Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
British Library, London
24 September 2024
As the National Trust reports, a significant part of the wealth of the British countryside was secured by exploitation and plunder. In collaboration with the British Library, WritersMosaic brought together writers and musicians, including Angeline Morrison, to reflect on its complicated history.