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WritersMosaic – In conversation
Surprising, illuminating and moving in-depth conversations between writers.
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WritersMosaic – What we leave we carry
The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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Iranian women's voices
Inspired by the poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad (1934–1967), creative women in Iran and the diaspora reflect on art and the constraints of present-day Iran and dream for the future, edited by Shara Atashi, Sana Nassari and Marjorie Lotfi.
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Malcolm X, by any means necessary
Before his assassination in 1965, Malcolm X, the spokesman for the Nation of Islam, inspired adoration and fear in the US with his powerful argument for self defence ‘by any means necessary’. For the centenary of Malcom X’s birth, writers in this guest edition explore his legacy as a resistance leader.
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Mosaic Monologues
A six-part audio drama series featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales. The short monologues range from a protagonist whose fear becomes a gremlin-like creature inhabiting their body, to a life-changing encounter at an airport when attempting to escape the toxicity of the UK.
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Borderliner
This series deploys and renews the term borderliner (an obsolete and racist epithet for people of mixed heritage) as a catalyst for multiple, innovative discussions of issues of identity, race, ethnicity and language.
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Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing
This series is a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, to reflect on the expansive role technology plays in our lives and in literature today.
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No facts, only versions
Memoirs are as much about what is excluded as what is included. This edition examines how you can evoke the truth in writing memoirs whilst drawing on memories that are sometimes fallible or contested.
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A strategic retreat
Six writers recall the experience of the first WritersMosaic retreat at Villa Lugara, in partnership with the Hawthornden Foundation
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Portholes
Five writers from Afghanistan share days from their journals of exile. This edition is a collaboration with Untold Narratives.
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Fabulous Islam
Fables serve almost every ethic and principle of Islamic tradition. They open up a series of dazzling and thought-provoking vistas in the work of the six writers included in this edition.
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The Review
In the first edition of The Review, an innovative new online magazine, reviewers and feature writers "stay attentive to the chimerical, disobedient, and unruly voices among us, and also ensure that originality and plurality remain at the heart of our culture."
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The forensic and the fantastic: Latinx writers in the UK
As Latinx writers in the UK, the forces that pulled and pushed our ancestors shatter any linear perspective. Another land of our childhood emerges. No longer the place of magical realism, we see and hear in retrospect what our parents were doing: creating a space for us to see the forest. The world. The planet.
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Going to meet James Baldwin
James Baldwin was an activist, public intellectual and a guide for understanding the nuances of race. In this edition we explore how he remains an inspiration for a new generation taking on the persistent issues and challenges he addressed, but which remained unresolved.
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Blood and belonging – Traveller writers
The glory of the Gypsy, Romany and Traveller community lies in its diversity – its amorphous, shape-shifting nature – despite the attempt by the gorjer/gadje or non-Romany world to define that community. The Traveller writers of this edition are guides to its kaleidoscopic journey.
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Between the clock and the story
Stories unfolding from memory both consist of and hold time. In this edition, writers explore how, in narrative literature, we hold time in our hands even as we see it pass.
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Sufficiently advanced magic: Fantasy and Science Fiction
From Mary Shelley to Mervyn Peake, British authors have played an outsized role in shaping global Fantasy and Science Fiction. In this guest edition, global majority authors draw on their cultures of origin and on life in Britain today to inject new ideas into the genre.
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Gasping for Breath: Black crime fiction
'Black people are over-represented in the British penal system and yet under-represented in British crime fiction. This WritersMosaic guest edition advances some thoughts on the reasons for this relative absence, and scopes related possibilities for the crime fiction genre’s evolution.'
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Jewish Multiculturalism
Jewish Multiculturalism? Never mind the ‘M’ word, start with the ‘J’ word. Which part of British multiculturalism is Jewish? Is Multiculturalism a social experiment, a form of social engineering? The authors here resist and refute lazy stereotypes which so often lead to suspicion, conflict, division.
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In a time of mass migration
Mass migration, long a feature of global society, has intensified with world wars, the collapse of empires and decolonisation. Climate change will accelerate and diversify the movement of populations. And as the writers here reveal, the migrant story is also personal, leaving some to feel like squatters in a world they do not own.
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Is english we speaking: African/Caribbean dialogue
In a dialogue between writers of continental African and Caribbean descent, each of the contributors to this edition has a story to tell about how their eyes were opened to the unexpected nature of their sameness as well as the differences.
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In search of lasting change
Whilst acknowledging the vast array of initiatives for so-called BAME writers, what will be the enduring impact? The six writers here, commissioned in the summer of 2019 before the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, have wrestled with this question throughout their careers.
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The rain started again
The 2008 Christmas flood in Trinidad was my first direct experience of the climate crisis. In the aftermath, I started to become attuned to what was happening with our climate systems.
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Sonic vibrations
This guest edition is a multimedia journey into the sonic vibrations of sound system culture, lovers rock and dub with writers, visual artists and choreographers from the African diaspora.
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Commonworld
Mahmoud Darwish, the revered Palestinian poet, said of exile: I carry it everywhere, as I carry my homeland.
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Between worlds
I have always felt that I am living between worlds, carrying the "elsewhere" to "somewhere" I have arrived at. In this edition, a number of writers explore issues of multiple worlds and of becoming and belonging in the liminal, in-between space, migrants of the world often find themselves inhabiting.
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Race in the time of childhood
In this edition, writers explore the challenges of growing up as a child of colour in the UK from the 1960s to the present day.
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Arch comics and graphic tales
'In this snapshot of an under-appreciated and ubiquitous part of our popular culture, these eight practitioners of graphic novels and comics reveal how they allow us to reach for the stars, but also to move in close to explore and communicate feelings not easily put into words.' A viewing and listening experience only available on WritersMosaic.org.uk