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Historian. Books include: 'Homecoming:Voices of the Windrush Generation' & upcoming 'I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be'. Director of @WritersMosaic
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Joined March 2009
“There’s a kind of humor that is very particular to the Caribbean and its tradition of picong—bold, verbal jousting.” An interview in @nybooks - a chance to wear my big hat
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“There’s a kind of earnestness, a kind of humor that is very particular to the Caribbean and its tradition of picong—bold, verbal jousting.”
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Our director @colincraiggrant recalls his first encounter with Black Skin, White Masks, a revelatory study of black consciousness by the radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, read in full in today's @observerUK
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Colin Grant recalls his first encounter with Black Skin, White Masks, a revelatory study of black consciousness by the radical psychiatrist
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Marking the centenary of the birth of the revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, our director @colincraiggrant was joined by @EkowEshun, Clementine E Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu & Donna Thompson @britishlibrary, missed it? Here's a flavour
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WritersMosaic returned to the British Library in 3 July for a night of prose and music, marking the centenary of the revolutionary psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon author of Black Skin, White Masks (1952)...
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ICYMI: Publishing often pigeonholes writers of colour within racial boundaries. But new platforms like @writersmosaic Quarterly are creating vital space for unbounded expression, experimentation and literary freedom, writes Ella Sinclair
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Publishing often pigeonholes writers of colour within racial boundaries. But new platforms like WritersMosaic Quarterly are creating vital space for unbounded expression, experimentation and literary...
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Remembering Parnia Abbasi - @Sana_nassari pays tribute to the young Iranian poet who was tragically killed recently during an Israeli airstrike, out now on #CloseUp
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Sana Nassari Parnia Abbasi was a twenty-four-year-old Iranian poet known for her poignant, introspective verse, earning a place among Iran’s emerging Gen-Z voices On the night of 12–13 June 2025,...
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Frantz Fanon, the revolutionary psychiatrist. What does his analysis say today about the pathology of colonialism and Western powers dehumanising of those they deem inferior and not quite human. Join @writersmosaic at @britishlibrary on 3 July Tickets: https://t.co/KrIiyw3pQK
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Now also available through @metalabel_ with a very affordable $7 epub+pdf version inc. the album. Check it out!
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Edited by writer and artist Michael Salu, fifteen of today’s most daring writers from across the globe read and respond to Italo Calvino’s seminal essay ‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’ with rich and...
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Tonight! It's @writersmosaic at @hayfestival's We Were There salon, featuring @Lanre_Bakare, @paulineblackOBE, @Malikabooker and @colincraiggrant, with music from @hellodaudi. Info here:
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The WritersMosaic director hosts this Salon reflecting on the under-reported cultural impact of Black people who have lived outside of London.
At @hayfestival? Don't miss @colincraiggrant hosting our We Were There Salon Fri @Lanre_Bakare @paulineblackOBE @Malikabooker will be reflecting on the under-reported cultural impact of Black people who have lived outside of London, music from @hellodaudi
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Heading to @hayfestival? Don't miss @EkowEshun @colincraiggrant @Bonn1eGreer @Vanessa_Kisuule on Weds 28 May as they discuss the legacy of Malcolm X with music from Tony Njoku
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On the centenary of Malcolm X’s birth, WritersMosaic brings together writers and performers to explore his global legacy as a resistance leader.
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At @hayfestival? Don't miss @colincraiggrant hosting our We Were There Salon Fri @Lanre_Bakare @paulineblackOBE @Malikabooker will be reflecting on the under-reported cultural impact of Black people who have lived outside of London, music from @hellodaudi
hayfestival.com
The WritersMosaic director hosts this Salon reflecting on the under-reported cultural impact of Black people who have lived outside of London.
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📚 For RLF Fellows’ News - May 2025 click the link here: https://t.co/y2udCebSWd Pictured: @WritersMosaic at the @HayFestival's We Were There panel members @Lanre_Bakare, @paulineblackOBE, @Malikabooker, @colincraiggrant and @hellodaudi.
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On the centenary of his birth, writers offer portraits of how they first saw Malcolm X and his relevance today. Edited by @colincraiggrant feat. @BonnieGreer @maxfarrar @Vanessa_Kisuule @EkowEshun @franklinlnelson Vayu Naidu, Ella Sinclair & John Siddique
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For the centenary of Malcom X’s birth, writers in this guest edition explore his legacy as a resistance leader.
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.@dmccaulay created the character of Miss Pauline, but Miss Pauline’s trajectory – tracking down distant relatives, the descendants of slavers and the enslaved – is based on the author’s own backstory and Jamaican heritage, Suzanne Harrington reviews
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Suzanne Harrington reviews A House for Miss Pauline by the Jamaican writer and environmental activist Diana McCauley
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Coming soon – the first edition of the new @WritersMosaic Quarterly, Malcolm X – By Any Means Necessary, will be published as an insert in @thebookseller on Friday 9 May. PLUS: Poets on Film, @hayfestival and @southbankcentre events, and much more: https://t.co/3j0wLcGX2o
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Continuing our new series of films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, the poet Anthony Anaxagorou reads from 'After the Blue Note Closes' by Larry Levis. The film is directed by Rob Akin
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Poet Anthony Anaxagorou reads 'After the Blue Note Closes' by Larry Levis in a film directed by Rob Akin for WritersMosaic/Adrian Brinkerhoff
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''Widen the parameters of Black British culture beyond the capital, and there’s an untapped reserve to draw from.'' @Lanre_bakare speaks to John Siddique about how black culture and resistance outside of London have shaped UK culture @hayfestival
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John Siddique talks to Lanre Bakare about missing history books, and how black culture & resistance outside of London have shaped UK culture.
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OUT TODAY! Pick up your copy of @WritersMosaic Quarterly published as an insert @_thebookseller feat. Vayu Naidu, @Vanessa_Kisuule, @maxfarrar, John Siddique, @franklinlnelson, Ella Sinclair @EkowEshun, @Bonn1eGreer & @colincraiggrant reflecting on the global legacy of Malcolm X
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I spent two years writing this story. It is about the murder of my grandfather and the birth of Bangladesh and how those two things are inextricably linked, for @nybooks
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Growing up, on playgrounds where children compared scars or the size of their houses, I liked to offer that my grandfather, a man named Almas Ali, was
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“What kind of man was Almas Ali? What part, if any, did he play in Bangladesh’s independence struggle? What if he had been a traitor after all?” —@sarahsjahan on researching her grandfather’s life and death
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Growing up, on playgrounds where children compared scars or the size of their houses, I liked to offer that my grandfather, a man named Almas Ali, was
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Nick Makoha talks with the directors of the @breadloafwriter about creating a writers' utopia, out now on #CloseUp
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Poet Nick Makoha talks to Jennifer Grotz and Lauren Francis-Sharma from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury University Vermont
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