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.
Black to the Future
Edinburgh Futures Institute
11 August 2024
Black to the Future, founded by Irenosen Okojie, is an Afro-Futurist celebration of Black artistry. Afroturism, a concept first coined as a reimagining of the experience of African Americans, 'the descendants of alien abductees [who] inhabit a sci-fi nightmare' is an increasingly popular artfrom. Recently, at a special Black to the Future event in partnership with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Colin Grant spoke with Irenosen Okojie, Jess Brough, and Patience Agbabi.
James Baldwin
Edinburgh Futures Institute
11 August 2024
James Baldwin died in 1987, but his work still rages and breathes life and hope into our troubled times. In the centenary year of Baldwin's birth, WritersMosaic joined forces with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate the life and legacy of the great American writer and civil rights activist.
Empireworld
Southbank Centre, London
18 August 2024
Sathnam Sanghera and Colin Grant discuss the legacy of British imperial history
The Forensic and the Fantastic
British Library, London
9 July 2024
Recently, WritersMosaic and the Poetry Translation Centre presented an evening of Latinx poetry with multimedia performances and Afro-Colombian music and dance. It was hosted by writer Amanda Vilanova the British Library.
The Empress
Lyric Theatre, London
18 October 2023
Tanika Gupta reflects on her play The Empress, ten years on from its first production.
Abolition: Or, the Art of Forgetting
British Library, London
17 October 2023
A WritersMosaic audience joined writers Bonnie Greer, Gabriel Gbadamosi and S.I. Martin to reflect on Britain's willful amnesia about its role in the Atlantic Slave Trade in our live literature SpeakySpokey production at the British Library.