WritersMosaic Live
By WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund
Categories: Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals, Arts, Books
The WritersMosaic Live podcast brings you front-row recordings from our live literary events. On tour across the UK at literary festivals, at the Southbank Centre and the British Library, these episodes capture unfiltered, wide-ranging conversations with contemporary British based writers redefining contemporary literature.
26 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Mosaic Monologues Live Bradford
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from…
- Stay in your lane?
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at…
- What We Leave We Carry
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund…
- Meet the Pioneers: The Revolutionary Publishers
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at…
- What We Leave We Carry
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from…
- Iranian Women’s Voices
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. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new…
- Poetry on Film
WritersMosaic partnered with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for a virtuosic evening of poetry and film at the Conduit Club in London. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk
- Malcolm X at 100
To mark the centenary of Malcom X's birth, WritersMosaic partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025 to delve into his enduring role as a revolutionary and a symbol of defiance. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new…
- We Were There
What would Britain look like if we turned it on its head and the North had all the money and attention? WritersMosaic's night of music, poetry and discussion at the Southbank Centre was inspired by Lanre Bakare’s celebrated cultural history of extraordinary Black lives in once-rich cities. is an…
- Frantz Fanon, the freedom fighter
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary psychiatrist and anti-colonial writer. At the British Library on 3 July, WritersMosaic marked the centenary of his birth, reflecting on his legacy with writers Ekow Eshun, Clementine E. Burnley, Khaldoon Ahmed, Vayu Naidu and the musician Donna Thompson. is an…
- We Were There
An evening of music poetry, prose and poetry with Pauline Black, Malika Booker, Lanre Bakare and Daudi Matsiko. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk
- Malcolm X: by any means necessary
For the centenary of Malcolm X’s birth, WritersMosaic, in collaboration with the British Library and the Eccles Institute, brings together writers and performers to explore Malcolm X's legacy as a resistance leader. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary…
- Alex Wheatle remembered
The writer Alex Wheatle has died. WritersMosaic paid tribute to Alex with a remembrance of his appearance at the 2023 Ilkley Festival with Susan Pitter and Colin Grant. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at…
- Cybernetics and ghosts
WritersMosaic, a division of the RLF, returned to the British Library for its latest evening exploring the digital future of writing. In a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, writers responded to the challenges that AI poses to our lives and…
- Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
A new documentary focuses on the pioneering singer and author Pauline Black who, with the band The Selecter, was central in the late 1970s to the rise of 2-tone music and the revival of Ska. Ahead of her Hay-on-Wye appearance in May with WritersMosaic, she talked with Gabriel Gbadamosi about…
- Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
At Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's recent event at the British Library, Monique Roffey, Safiya Sinclair and Kevin Jared Hosein reflected on how the most intimate relations are shaped by conflicts in the Caribbean. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary…
- Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić’s Tirana Film Festival highlights
Snežana Ćurčić and Goran Gocić reflect on the highlights from this year's Tirana Film festival in the Albanian capital where Goran Gocić was also one of the judges. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover more new writing at WritersMosaic.org.uk
- The Life, Writing and Legacy of James Baldwin
Celebrations of the centenary of writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin continued at the Cambridge Literary Festival. Erica Wagner chaired a panel focusing on works such as No Name in the Street and Giovanni's Room. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal…
- Claude McKay, from Harlem to Marseille
Claude McKay, a leading light of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, travelled widely but struggled to live by his pen. At the British Film Institute in London, Burt Caesar was joined by writers to discuss a new documentary on McKay. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal…
- Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside
As the National Trust reports, a significant part of the wealth of the British countryside was secured by exploitation and plunder. In collaboration with the British Library, WritersMosaic brought together writers and musicians, including Angeline Morrison, to reflect on its complicated history…
- Black to the Future
Black to the Future, founded by Irenosen Okojie, is an Afro-Futurist celebration of Black artistry. Afroturism, a concept first coined as a reimagining of the experience of African Americans, 'the descendants of alien abductees [who] inhabit a sci-fi nightmare' is an increasingly popular artfrom…
- James Baldwin
James Baldwin died in 1987, but his work still rages and breathes life and hope into our troubled times. In the centenary year of Baldwin's birth, WritersMosaic joined forces with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to celebrate the life and legacy of the great American writer and civil…
- Empireworld
The far-right violence unleashed in Britain recently is partly underpinned, believes the historian Sathnam Sanghera, by miseducation and bigotry. Sanghera has been subject to unrelenting abuse online for his temerity to question the sanitised version of British imperial history. At London's…
- The Forensic and the Fantastic
WritersMosaic and the Poetry Translation Centre presented an evening of Latinx poetry with multimedia performances and Afro-Colombian music and dance. It was hosted by writer Amanda Vilanova at the British Library. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund…
- The Empress
In a post-performance Q&A, the playwright Tanika Gupta, whose play The Empress has just been restaged after ten years, talks with Karla Williams about its resonance with contemporary British Asian life. is an original audio series by WritersMosaic Magazine from the Royal Literary Fund. Discover…
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