Chelene Knight
Chelene Knight is a writer and founder of Breathing Space Creative. She is the author of Braided Skin, Dear Current Occupant, which won the Vancouver Book Award, and Junie, which also won the Vancouver Book Award and was longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize. Her nonfiction includes Let It Go and a guided journal for writers. Knight lives in British Columbia.
Writers & Books
Juror History
Program History
2019 - Rising Star
Rising Stars
Selected by
David Chariandy
Citation
"Chelene Knight writes with all of the high artistry that comes from caring. She cares about overlooked places and vanished communities. She cares about the souls and laughter of the vulnerable. She cares about the nuances of narrative voice, the tangled work of cultural memory, and the limning of everyday powerful intimacies. Knight is the inspiring example of the socially invested writer, working in community and on the page to offer language and story that is fresh, stylistically audacious, fiercely honest, and beautiful." —2019 Rising Stars selector David Chariandy