Colin Grant and Michael Rosen: What We Leave We Carry
London Review Bookshop
23 June 2026
The historian Colin Grant talks to the author and broadcaster Michael Rosen about the WritersMosaic-inspired oral history of migration to Britain, What We Leave We Carry.
What We Leave We Carry: Voices of Migration to Britain
Brixton Tate Library, London
10 November 2026
Foundational tales of arriving in a new land, along with rarely spoken stories of love and loss, with author, historian and critic Colin Grant, actress, director and writer Anni Domingo and writer Isabelle Dupuy.
Migration Stories: Past & Present, with Horatio Clare & Colin Grant
The Sub Rooms, Stroud Book Festival
8 November 2026
The Stroud Book Festival welcomed two writers, Colin Grant and Horatio Clare, who have made it their mission to get behind the migration headlines in their work.
Mosaic Monologues Live Bradford
Loading Bay, Bradford Literature Festival
5 July 2026
WritersMosaic's series The Mosaic Monologues, which brings character-led storytelling into the global majority literary space, visited the Bradford Literary Festival. With John Siddique, Ishy Din, Tahmina Ali and music from Rory A. Green.
Stay in your lane?
The Conduit Club, London
29 September 2026
WritersMosaic Magazine celebrated its fifth anniversary at the Conduit Club, with the editor Colin Grant and the writers Will Harris, Maggie Gee, Hannah Lowe and Amy Abdelnoor.
What We Leave We Carry
Southbank Centre, London
26 August 2026
Colin Grant celebrated the WritersMosaic-inspired book, What We Leave We Carry, with storytellers and migrants Suzanne Harrington, Maria Jastrzębska, Amanda Vilanova and Clementine Burnley at Southbank Centre.
Meet the Pioneers: The Revolutionary Publishers
British Library, London
16 July 2026
A celebration of Jessica and Eric Huntley at the British Library, with Margaret Busby, Colin Grant, Alexander D Great, Beverley Mason, Lemara Lindsay-Prince and Lemn Sissay.
What We Leave We Carry
Hay Festival
29 May 2026
WritersMosaic celebrated the publication of the book What We Leave We Carry at the Hay Festival in May with a panel discussion chaired by the author Colin Grant, with the writers Amanda Vilanova, Eric Ngalle Charles and Suzanne Harrington.
Iranian Women’s Voices
British Library, London
16 March 2026
WritersMosaic recently presented an evening of poetry, film and music at the British Library in London to showcase Iranian Women's Voices, inspired by the poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad.
Poetry on Film
Conduit Club, London
10 February 2026
WritersMosaic partnered with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for a virtuosic evening of poetry and film at the Conduit Club in London.










