Rakaya Fetuga

Rakaya Fetuga is a poet and writer from north-west London. Rakaya is winner of the national Roundhouse Slam and international Rooftop Rhythms Slam and has received writing awards from the New York TV & Film Festival and Royal Holloway University of London. Rakaya’s writing has spearheaded an array of campaigns by organisations and brands including Bloomberg Philanthropies, the UNFPA, L’Occitane and Cartier. Having contributed poetry to anthologies published by HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Penguin Random House, Rakaya is currently working on a fiction novel. Rakaya is a regular workshop facilitator for the Poetry Society and All Change Arts, helping young writers nurture their talent, and produces performance events for Rumi’s Cave in north-west London.