InSight

Partition: Scottish independence and the Bengali experience

WritersMosaic launches in Glasgow with an exploration of the Bengali experience of Partition as it impacted writers now living in Scotland. Crime writer Abir Mukherjee, literary critic Sourit Bhattacharya and poet and Tagore scholar Bashabi Fraser relate their family stories to contemporary debates on Scottish independence.
3rd September 2023

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Films from WritersMosaic

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Free Will

Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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Half Written Love Letter

Selina Nwulu reads her poem, 'Half Written Love Letter'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

In Conversation

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Writers talking to writers

Ebony Reid: 'I needed to showcase those lighter moments, the difficulties of wanting to escape trap life and then documenting the reasons why they can't escape it.'

In conversation with Lemara Lindsay-Prince

Basma Ghalayini: 'Because we're continually being bombed and occupied, there's curfews, there's strikes, we can't just stop every time something like this happens or we'll never do anything.'

In conversation with John Siddique

Jarred McGinnis: 'I made a contract with the reader to be honest with them'

In conversation with Colin Grant

Close Up

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Essays / Fiction / Poetry / Memoir

Coats

The unexpected cost of acquiring two Italian leather coats in Rome

Phil Okwedy

A tribute to Bonnie Greer

Founding editor of WritersMosaic Gabriel Gbadamosi pays tribute to Bonnie Greer, the extraordinary writer, public intellectual and much admired contributor to WritersMosaic who died on 15 September, 2026.

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Triage

A response to the endless spiral of worldwide conflict and tragedy

Colin Grant

My Hit List

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One person's reading, watching, listening and visiting

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The Complex

The unraveling of a dynasty

Mahika Dhar

Disappearing Images

A festival of ephemeral art and the impermanence of our current world

Amanda Vilanova

Ever Land

A layered and haunting view of daily life in occupied Palestine

Suzanne Harrington

Original series

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Collections and podcasts from WritersMosaic

Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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Stay in your lane?

WritersMosaic interrogates the notion of ‘staying in your lane’ by asking writers how they attempt to think beyond the parameters of their cultural identity.

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Ritual

In the first series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, six poets explore how ritual gives meaning to our lives.

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