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An online magazine & developmental resource reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past into its future @writersmosaic.bsky.social
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Joined October 2020
Keep up with the latest news, views and reviews from our growing community of writers, direct to your inbox each month. The August 2025 #WritersMosaic newsletter is out now
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Guns are central to “People Like Us,” @JasonMott's darkly comic and tragic new novel. Close to the book’s end, no matter how hard an accidental killer tries to throw away his pistol into a river, it’s “still there. ” @colincraiggrant reviews for @nytimes
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In “People Like Us,” Jason Mott tells a darkly comic tale of two Black writers haunted by gun violence.
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Episode 50 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry focuses on Nina Ramzan who recalls leaving her home in Ukraine a decade ago before the Russian invasion. Nina found a new home in Cardiff in Wales and has since helped her mother and others to migrate
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Nina Ramzan, who qualified as a doctor in Ukraine, recalls leaving her home in Ukraine for Cardiff for What We Leave We Carry
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Two years in the making, Spirits of the Black Meridian, a site-specific theatre piece @orncgreenwich was performed for just 4 nights. While flaring briefly the production remains an incandescent example of theatre as revolutionary act, @naomifoyle reviews
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Review by Naomi Foyle of theatre as a revolutionary act with musician/composer Awate Abdalla, Scripted by Hassan Mahamdallie.
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Episode 49 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the entrepreneur Sherwin Acebuche recalls how he has wrestled with the tension of his dual British and Filipino identity and found contentment within it
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For What We Leave We Carry, the podcast about migration to the UK, Sherwin Acebuche describes the tension of his British/Filipino identity
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Check out Jade E Bradford's hit list: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, @yepoka's Anansi’s Gold, @Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Tour, Ryan Coogler's Sinners, The @hayfestival and @Portmeirion in North Wales, find out more here
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Author Jade E. Bradford on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Yepoka Yeebo's Anansi’s Gold, Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Tour and Ryan Coogler's Sinners
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'I like to say I wanted to become a writer from the moment I was born but maybe that wasn't quite true.' Meet @candygourlay in conversation with Sita Brahmachari discussing making the ordinary world extraordinary and more
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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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In remembrance of Leah Chillery, the playwright, screenwriter and actress who died recently, we share here her interview from 2021 with the writer for screen and stage @xymyorkrapper. Leah spills the beans on being an actor, a writer and a Northerner
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‘From the Canyons We Create’ @renuarora1 looks at how the artist Frida Khalo, who was born on 6 July 1907, inspired her, out now on #CloseUp
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Renu Arora's poem about Frida Kahlo begins 'When I think of Frida Kahlo, I see myselflooking in the mirrorI see her, pink flowers in her hair'
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In less than 300 pages of his history of Black Britain’s recent culture outside of the M25 @Lanre_Bakare has made a very good job of redressing the excessive concentration on England’s capital in most of the writing about Black Britain, @maxfarrar reviews
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Max Farrah's review of Guardian journalist Lanre Bakare's non-fiction survey of Black British culture outside the M25
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In episode 47 of #WhatWeLeaveWeCarry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK, we meet Onur Acaroğlu. After moving from Turkey, falling in love gave Onur a sense of belonging, listen in full here
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The WritersMosaic podcast of What We Leave We Carry, a series about migration to the UK, with Onur Acaroğlu from Turkey
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'The aim is to give a portrait of the communities and the music that have energised Britain.' @AniefiokEkp in conversation with @xymyorkrapper. listen in as they discuss Aniefiok's debut nonfiction, Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
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'What a beautiful cloud, I thought', the Iranian visual artist Maryam Firuzi's diary of the first days of being under attack from Israel in her home in Tehran in June 2025, out now on #CloseUp
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Maryam Firuzi's diary of the first days of being under attack from Israel in her home in Tehran in June 2025 and her struggles to leave
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We are all northern now! Join us on Friday 11 July for a night of music, poetry & discussion @southbankcentre inspired by @Lanre_Bakare's celebrated cultural history, shining a spotlight on extraordinary Black lives in once-rich cities, info & tickets here
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We are all northern now! What would Britain look like if we turned it on its head and the north had all the money and attention rather than the soft, entitled south? Would Britain become as miserable...
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RT @EileenKelly33: Been to the @writersmosaic at #BradfordLitFest in the City of Culture today 😍 So interesting to hear about the work of….
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Our July 2025 newsletter is out now, sign up to get the latest news, views and reviews from our growing community of writers direct to your inbox each month
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Join us on tour in 2025: Book now for @BradfordLitFest in July and find us at the @britishlibrary on Thursday and @southbankcentre, on 11th July, @edbookfest in August and Ilkley Lit Festival in October, all here
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Join WritersMosaic on tour in 2025 for live events across the UK
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Franklin Nelson reviews Paris Noir @CentrePompidou, Paris closing today, artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950-2000 - catch it if you can
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Art exhibition Paris Noir at Centre Pompidou, Paris19 March – 30 June 2025. Review by Franklin Nelson
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.@mariajastrz reviews The New Carthaginians - @NickMakoha's new poetry collection inspired by the work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Nick Makoha's new poetry collection inspired by the work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is reviewed by poet Maria Jastrzębska
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