Malika Booker's Poetry Collective, Poetry Kitchen, Acquired by Corsair

Malika Booker, the poet, writer and spoken word artist, is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School.

Malika’s Poetry Kitchen was founded in 2001 by Malika Booker alongside Roger Robinson to meet the need for diverse writers,  who had too often been neglected by the traditional establishment, to have a space to work on their craft. The organisation has inspired Malika’s Poetry Kitchen chapters worldwide, from Chicago to Delhi. Find out more about the Poetry Kitchen here.

Read the full news of Corsair's plans with the collective here.

Malika Booker, the poet, writer and spoken word artist, is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School. Booker is an international writer of poetry, radio and theatre and was the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first poetry collection ‘Pepper Seed’ was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize in 2014. She chaired the Forward Prizes for Poetry judging panel in 2016, and judged the Foyles Young Poet of the Year competition in the same year.

Booker teaches on the BA (Hons) Creative Writing programme, will be supervising masters degree students, and will help the Manchester Writing School establish mentoring and development activities for early career writers through its annual Summer School.