WritersMosaic Live at the British Library – Meet the Pioneers: The Revolutionary Publishers

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WritersMosaic Live at the British Library – Meet the Pioneers. Photo: Adiam Yemane

With Margaret Busby, Colin Grant, Alexander D Great, Beverley Mason, Lemara Lindsay-Prince and Lemn Sissay.

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British Library, London, July 2026

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WritersMosaic paid tribute to revolutionary publishers of the global majority in Britain, Margaret Busby and Guyanese-born political activists Jessica and Eric Huntley.

In the late 1960s, Jessica and Eric Huntley and Margaret Busby were first among equals in carving out a path for writers and other creative artists, and in not waiting in vain for the mainstream to recognise them and their cause. In starting the revolutionary publishing houses Bogle-L’Ouverture and Allison & Busby – explored in Margaret’s new book, Part of the Story – these pioneers elevated the overlooked global majority in Britain, and enabled much that came after, from #Merky Books to the Jhalak Prize and WritersMosaic.

In an evening of conversation, poetry and song, hosted by Colin Grant with Margaret Busby herself, Lemn Sissay, Beverley Mason, Lemara Lindsay-Prince and the Calypsonian Alexander D Great, WritersMosaic celebrated the Huntleys and Margaret Busby whose record of excellence is evident in her latest book, Part of the Story.