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Everyone has an elsewhere: the latest WritersMosaic Quarterly

Remembrance is central to memoir writing, but our memories are often unreliable – frequently tweaked and fictionalised. Psychologists assert that as every time we recount an episode in our lives it is often tweaked and subtly fictionalised.

Everyone has an elsewhere, the fifth edition of the WritersMosaic Quarterly, is out now, available as a print insert in The Bookseller and on the WritersMosaic website.

The latest in the WritersMosaic Quarterly series sees nine writers embark on a quest to evoke pasts whose truths are slippery and elusive. Writers Andy Bay, Isabelle Dupuy, Colin Grant, Suzanne Harrington, Naneh Hovhannisyan, Sarah Issever, Hannah Lowe, and Mirza Waheed reflect on the challenge of writing about what they remember without verifiable facts and few sources. Some stories serve as bridges between the living and the dead. In others, memories are sparked upon returning to places of the past, now haunted in the present by ghosts disconcertingly remembered. For some, warm memories are rekindled.

The WritersMosaic Quarterly is produced by and primarily features writers of the global majority, both in and outside the UK. The first edition, Malcolm X: By any means necessary, was published in May 2025; Iranian Women’s Voices was released in September 2025; Frantz Fanon: Revolutionary Psychiatrist was published in December 2025 and Talismans of Migration was published in March 2026.

You can read Everyone has an elsewhere here.

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