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Publisher’s Circle Membership
Mosaic is an important place to keep voices of the African Diaspora vital. Not only do we publish in print and digitally, we also develop lesson plans for high school educators and present an annual education conference. Now is the time to act. Your Publisher’s Circle membership of $100 will sustain Mosaic and help build our education programs.

Mosaic is published by Literary Freedom Project is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt not-for-profit organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative thinking, and new media.

Benefits

  • Four issues of Mosaic
  • Personalized Mosaic Mug “YourName ♥ Mosaic”
  • Signed copy of the new book Glorious by Bernice McFadden or How To Escape From A Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique
  • Donation acknowledgment in Mosaic and website


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Education
The Literary Freedom Project provides educators with literary arts lesson plans and workshops based on the content of each issue of Mosaic. Each plan uses the work by writers of African descent as a connective tool to a variety of subjects. Our goal is to increase self awareness while promoting reading and strengthening literacy.

Lesson Plans
Mosaic supplements its editorial content with lesson plans that are developed based on the content of Mosaic. These lesson plans, developed for secondary school educators, demonstrate how Mosaic’s content can serve as a connective tool to explore educational subjects such as history and social studies while also serving to increase the importance of literature in the classroom

Mosaic Literary Magazine
Launched in1998, Mosaic Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication exploring the literary arts created by writers of African descent. Through articles, essays, book reviews, and interviews Mosaic has increased the literary reach of some of the most important voices effecting change on many artistic fronts.

Mosaic has featured such artists Lucille Clifton, Bernice McFadden, Colson Whitehead, Walter Mosley, Staceyann Chin, Major Jackson, Chimamanda Adichie, and Sonya Sanchez among others and provides a unique space to preview upcoming releases through book reviews and author interviews.

We Are Family Book Club & Writing Workshop
A new program set to start in February 2012, the We Are Family Book Club engages in a literary “call and response” by reading, discussing, then writing short stories, essays, or poems based on the reading selection. An emphasis will be placed on reading comprehension, creative, and expository writing.

The key to making the WAFBC work as a stepping stone to stronger community reading is to have participants paired with family members –fathers and sons, sisters and brothers, uncles and nieces, etc.  It’s family, supplemented with instruction, that will create a culture of reading for pleasure.

 

Programs of the Literary Freedom Project are funded in part by the Bronx Council on the Arts, a JP Morgan Chase Re-grant, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York State Department of Cultural Affairs. In-kind support is provided by WNYC Radio