An online magazine and developmental resource reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future. www.writersmosaic.org.uk. https://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mdcpwvcopk2aAll the men my mother never married - read our latest #CloseUp, 'a chapter from an unpublished autobiography, dedicated to my mother, Sarah Efeti Kang, by @yomadene bit.ly/4jQCNh7 https://bit.ly/4jQCNh726 Jan 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdcpwvcopk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3md36k52alh2m.@EdsonBurton shares his cultural highlights - read about Barbara Walker's breathtaking retrospective Being Here, Sinners from director Ryan Coogler, Rotary Connection 222, the freedom of St Paul's Carnival in Bristol, & @NickMakoha 'sThe New Carthaginians bit.ly/3NH4fSB https://writersmosaic.org.uk/my-hit-list/edson-burtons-cultural-highlights/23 Jan 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3md36k52alh2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mcyo3e5f6b2r'Deafness has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through.' At the @edbookfest, poet @RaymondAntrobus talks to Colin Grant - our latest #InConversation out now bit.ly/3NtneA5 https://bit.ly/3NtneA522 Jan 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcyo3e5f6b2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mcwv3hiewl2rThe Thing with Feathers - Dylan Southern’s film adaptation of Max Porter’s poetic novella Grief - puts masculinity front and centre, Magnus McDowall reviews bit.ly/49RviSM https://bit.ly/49RviSM21 Jan 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwv3hiewl2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mcwkc5euji2tIt Was Just an Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film probes the relationship between individuals, the state and violence with determined humanism - Anahit Behrooz reviews bit.ly/4pLAZrn https://bit.ly/4pLAZrn21 Jan 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwkc5euji2thttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mapqkksuvd2yDon't miss Sana Nassari's powerful review of Prisoner 951 - 'a quietly devastating miniseries based on the six-year ordeal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in the Iranian regime's prisons', read in full here bit.ly/4pb9PKf https://bit.ly/4pb9PKf24 Dec 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mapqkksuvd2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mana3nwwdb2yA former medical student yearns to have been familiar with the writing of Frantz Fanon who might have acted as a guide during his years of studies, @colincraiggrant.bsky.social on Inglan mad dem bit.ly/4aM0CEH https://bit.ly/4aM0CEH23 Dec 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mana3nwwdb2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mam45rmayg2vWritersMosaic and @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social present UK Global Majority Poets on Film LIVE at The Conduit, a virtuosic evening of poetry and film hosted by author and WritersMosaic Director @colincraiggrant.bsky.social - 10th Feb - booking now open bit.ly/4j9QDuX https://bit.ly/4j9QDuX22 Dec 2025 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mam45rmayg2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3mal5cpuwa22iPlaywright Juliet Gilkes Romero takes us from the tweet that inspired her to write The Whip (2020) through to the play’s performance at the @the-rsc.bsky.social's Swan Theatre, in conversation with @colincraiggrant.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3YDv1gO22 Dec 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mal5cpuwa22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m7aff3hjho2zOur new original series has just launched: 'Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist'. Zebib K. Abraham asks, in this moment of rapid shift into authoritarian populism, what can we learn from Frantz Fanon in escaping traditional psychoanalytic thought? bit.ly/3KCkm2B https://bit.ly/3KCkm2B05 Dec 2025 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7aff3hjho2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m72wr6hjsf2pAlice Mah's memoir Red Pockets @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social confronts the climate crisis while dragging the reader back from the brink of despair @soozysuze.bsky.social reviews bit.ly/4iuQgun https://bit.ly/4iuQgun03 Dec 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m72wr6hjsf2phttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m6ygcbhqu22cA dream-like production set inside the subconscious mind of a high-flying, female reggae artist, Trish Cook reviews The Legends of Them written & performed by Sutara Gayle AKA Lorna Gee, directed by Jo McInnes - @LeedsPlayhouse bit.ly/4opblb6 https://bit.ly/48ouZ1802 Dec 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ygcbhqu22chttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m6vuglg55h2zA tribute to the life and legacy of pioneering Jamaican theatre director and actress Yvonne Brewster (1938-2025), who was a formidable presence in British theatre and established @TalawaTheatreCo, Patricia Cumper remembers bit.ly/48pu5Bb https://bit.ly/48pu5Bb01 Dec 2025 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6vuglg55h2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m6jdisswm62yA black man wants to escape Britain. After finding William Blake’s poetry in the airport bookshop, he has an encounter with a stranger that will end everything as he knows it - The Prophecy by Testament, part of a new audio drama series of unexpected tales bit.ly/4p1h48d https://bit.ly/4p1h48d26 Nov 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6jdisswm62yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m6gszszl6j2fPoet Mimi Khalvati is the focus of episode 65 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. Mimi came to the UK as a child and has turned her home into a museum with memorabilia and artefacts from her family bit.ly/48ouZ18 https://bit.ly/48ouZ1825 Nov 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6gszszl6j2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m6fogotjm32yLiberty Martin shares her cultural #HitList: photo exhibition LMK WHEN U REACH by Bernice Mulenga, Forever, Ya Girl from KeiyaA, Boy Parts by Eliza Clark as her favourite book of the year, series Under the Cover, and the wonder of Brixton Community Cinema bit.ly/3XA85yR https://bit.ly/3XA85yR24 Nov 2025 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6fogotjm32yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m5xvk4sq572fThe photographer @misanharriman.bsky.social talks to Gabriel Gbadamosi about his exhibition The Purpose of Light, a series of black and white photos of demonstrators which he describes as an example of ‘observing humanity with his lens.’ Listen here bit.ly/4o9tOIH https://bit.ly/4o9tOIH19 Nov 2025 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5xvk4sq572fhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4vb6mok2z2w'One stressful night, young TJ steps onto a bus with no destination – only to find himself on a journey that warps time and love in a chance encounter with a passenger', from Sapphire’s blues by Connor Allen, a Mosaic Monologue bit.ly/4qTShnY https://bit.ly/4qTShnY05 Nov 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4vb6mok2z2whttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4ujpkvabl2cIn Soon Come, readers are treated to a narrative that has been, figuratively speaking, marinated in jerk seasoning. Robert Donald reviews Kuba Shand-Baptiste's debut novel bit.ly/4oVfi8h https://bit.ly/4oVfi8h05 Nov 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ujpkvabl2chttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4sqpp57rk2eIn the latest production of The Harder They Come @stratfordeast.com, London, the musical depicts all of Jamaican life on stage with thrilling simplicity, @colincraiggrant.bsky.social reviews bit.ly/47j7lUk https://bit.ly/47j7lUk04 Nov 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4sqpp57rk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4rzaigsxn2jOrna is the focus of episode 64 of What We Leave We Carry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. Orna is an actor who was born in Israel and moved to the US as a child before relocating to the UK bit.ly/47Rg6Fg https://bit.ly/47Rg6Fg04 Nov 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4rzaigsxn2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4qaarwpfe2eVeronica Chambers' cultural highlights: the legacy of Belle de Costa Greene's library, The Estate @nationaltheatre.org.uk, artist Yoshimoto Nara, Edward Lee's animations, the audiobook of Jane Austen's Persuasion, & Rewriting History by Fabiola Jean-Louis bit.ly/49wMOwQ https://bit.ly/49wMOwQ03 Nov 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4qaarwpfe2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m4pirplsbz2c'I’m very privileged and fortunate to have worked in medicine because it gives you exposure to humanity in every incarnation', poet, novelist, lyricist and physician Suhayl Saadi talks to Bashabi Fraser about the journey of his polyphonic novel Psychoraag bit.ly/3Ll0VeK https://bit.ly/3Ll0VeK03 Nov 2025 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4pirplsbz2chttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m3s6fbzh752yWe are proud to be introducing our new six-part audio drama series - Mosaic Monologues - featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales. We kick-start the series with Mara Menzies' Creation bit.ly/42R7BHv https://bit.ly/4qoioD822 Oct 2025 15:37 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3s6fbzh752yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m3f333khin2hPlaywright Ishy Din and sacred teacher and writer @johnsiddique.bsky.social discuss their experience of directing and producing the new series, #MosaicMonologues, starting on 22 October and featuring six dramas commissioned by WritersMosaic bit.ly/4qkPp3g https://bit.ly/4qkPp3g17 Oct 2025 10:33 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3f333khin2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m3c4zq55vw2iWriter @aniefiokekp.bsky.social reflects on diaspora and the fantasy of return through conversations with friends and strangers in #CloseUp, 'Wow, diaspora for real' bit.ly/4h9OhLp https://bit.ly/4h9OhLp16 Oct 2025 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3c4zq55vw2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m37mkszbh72jIn episode 63 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK, Hani Arnaout tells his story of how, after years of suffering under the Assad regime in Syria, he and his family found safety in Devon bit.ly/48W3DBa https://bit.ly/48W3DBa15 Oct 2025 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m37mkszbh72jhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m3543tiejq2y‘To imagine a better world, we must first acknowledge that countless sacrifices have rendered society indifferent to injustice.’ Dr Laleh Atashi revisits Forough Farrokhzad’s ironic depiction of the ‘Frontier of Gems' featured ep. on Iranian Women's Voices bit.ly/4n5Mk4a https://bit.ly/4n5Mk414 Oct 2025 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3543tiejq2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/writersmosaic.bsky.social/post/3m32lmzbszc2oMiraya McCoy works as an editorial assistant on @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social’s philosophy list, here she shares her #HitList: the @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social, Blood Orange's album Essex Honey, Otherworlds by Federico Campagna and more bit.ly/3IDBynD https://bit.ly/3IDBynD13 Oct 2025 06:30 +0000at://did:plc:psood2xsuehsfjemyoxuerso/app.bsky.feed.post/3m32lmzbszc2o