VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

VIDA Reviews! Interview with Chelene Knight on Dear Current Occupant

Dear Current Occupant is non-linear memoir that maps Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the 80s and 90s.  Through writing letters to the occupants of rentals she...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Joanna C Valente

What do you have to say to those who would suggest your writing is too intense or upsetting? Life is upsetting and intense, so why...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu

Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I do feel that my writing...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — B.B.P. Hosmillo

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — B.B.P. Hosmillo

What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — Christopher Soto

How do you practice self-care when writing about difficult subject matter? I try not to force myself into retraumatization when writing. I don’t think it’s...