Interview by Cara Nelissen The Growing Room Festival is taking place from March 8-17, 2019. Below is an interview with Festival Director Chelene Knight about her vision for the festival, the work that goes into creating a space for...
Review by Mormei Zanke
Chelene Knight’s new memoir Dear Current Occupant, defies traditional genres of writing through its inherent hybridity and fragmentation. The book delves into Knight’s childhood past, exploring her experience of growing up while moving in and out of twenty homes in East Vancouver. Knight weaves poetry, essays, letters, and photographs together to create a work that is halting and profoundly moving. Knight’s fragmented approach succeeds in exploring the truths of her past more than any conventional, linear method could.
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