Chingonyi's collection,
Kumukanda (
Vintage Publishing, 2017) won the
Dylan Thomas Prize and a
Somerset Maugham Award.
Kumukanda was also shortlisted for the
Costa Poetry Prize and the
Seamus Heaney Centre First Poetry Collection Prize, the
Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the
Jhalak Prize. His second collection,
A Blood Condition, was published in 2021 by Vintage Publishing. Chingonyi's work has been published in several anthologies, including
The Best British Poetry,
The Emma Press Anthology of Aunts,
The Emma Press Anthology of Political Poems,
Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poetry, and
Ten: The New Wave. His essays, poems and reviews have been featured in online and print publications. He won a
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012. In 2015, he was Associate Poet at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts. Chingonyi was a Burgess Fellow at the Centre for New Writing,
University of Manchester. He then went on to be assistant professor of creative writing at
Durham University. == Awards and honours ==