The <em>WritersMosaic </em>director hosts this Salon reflecting on the under-reported cultural impact of Black people who have lived outside of London.

On the centenary of Malcolm X’s birth, <em>WritersMosaic </em>brings together writers and performers to explore his global legacy as a resistance leader.

Colin Grant talks with novelist, short story writer and essayist Kit De Waal about her latest novel The Best of Everything (Tinder Press 2025)

WritersMosaic Guest Edition Malcolm X by any means necessary, edited by Colin Grant with Bonnie Greer, Vayu Naidu, Vanessa Kisuule, Ella Sinclair, John Siddique, Max Farrar, Franklin Nelson and Ekow E...

WritersMosaic @ British Library celebrates Malcolm X as a resistance leader with Bonnie Greer, Gary Younge, Vanessa Kisuule and Fallé Nioke

Bella Denise resides in London, where she grew up and has lived most of her life. She identifies as a Londoner of African heritage. As an interdisciplinary artist primarily focused on video installati...

In episode 32 of What We Leave We Carry, the series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK, Joanna Surowiec describes how she found that performing stand-up comedy led her to create a...

Alex Wheatle has died. A much admired and prolific writer, known fondly as the Brixton Bard, Alex’s books included his first novel, Brixton Rock and Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head. In 2020,...

Renu Arora (The Burgundy Book) and Sita Brahmachari on the writing, stage work and collaborations inspired by Renu's life-changing accident.

Chitra Ramaswamy talks to Ruvani Ranashinha, biographer of Hanif Kureishi, and novelist Mohammed Hanif about Kureishi’s writing and career.

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What We Leave We Carry is a podcast series from WritersMosaic magazine that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. It delves into hidden and diverse communities across the country, explor...

WritersMosaic - In conversation · Episode

WritersMosaic @ British Library celebrates Malcolm X as a resistance leader with Bonnie Greer, Gary Younge, Vanessa Kisuule and Fallé Nioke

The BBC series Mr Loverman, about a closeted West Indian grandfather and his family, explores the submerged emotional lives of the Windrush generation in Britain.

The BBC series Mr Loverman, about a closeted West Indian grandfather and his family, explores the submerged emotional lives of the Windrush generation in Britain.

The black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey was a disrupter who delighted black people and terrified the authorities who schemed to neuter his power and eventually imprison him in 1925. After his death...

In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of…

In the 1920s, Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a mass movement of working-c...

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This elegaic novel tracks a West Indian man’s life in London over decades, exploring the emotional cost of leaving home and being met by hatred and rejection

Slavery, a more than 200-year-old tragedy in the US, allegedly ended in 1865. Allegedly, because the dehumanizing practice of breaking people and

The poet and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni has died. Her Penguin Modern Classics collection, Poems: 1968-2020, published  earlier this year marked the culmination of an extraordinary career. In...

There was a directness and urgency in her spoken and written voice but she could be mischievous and funny too

From Malcolm X to Justin Fashanu, Eshun uses historical figures to illuminate contemporary struggles – and his own alienation

What is driving the health polycrisis in Sudan?

Podcast · WritersMosaic from the Royal Literary Fund · The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK. It’s a chance to listen to Britain, to hear voices often drowned out by shril...

From the woman who risked her freedom by disguising herself as a man to watch football, to the separatist who had to abandon his family after urging a crowd to throw off the Islamic Republic – this is...