Kayo CHINGONYI

Kayo Chingonyi is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry and the author of two pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance (Salt, 2012) and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream (Akashic, 2016). His first full-length collection, Kumukanda, was published in June 2017 by Chatto & Windus and went on to win the Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. Kayo has been invited to read from his work at venues and events across the UK and internationally. He was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and has completed residencies with Kingston University, Cove Park, First Story, The Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and Royal Holloway University of London in partnership with Counterpoints Arts. He was Associate Poet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts from Autumn 2015 to Spring 2016, Anthony Burgess Fellow at Manchester University in 2018, and co-edited issue 62 of Magma Poetry and the Autumn 2016 edition of The Poetry Review. He is now poetry editor for The White Review. Kayo is also an emcee, producer, and DJ and regularly collaborates with musicians and composers both as a poet and a lyricist.

  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Commission européenne
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Swedish Institute
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • MuntPunt
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • LOFT 58
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Embassy of Sweden