Join us on Tuesday, December 3rd at Hood 29 from 6:30 to 8:30 for what promises to be an evening of thrilling literary delights, featuring Chelene Knight and MFA Readers Emily Chou, Ray Clark, Adriana Jones, and jaz papadopoulos.

Locution is a monthly gathering put on by MFA students at the University of British Columbia. Join us on the second Thursday of every month to hear stories, poems, memoirs, songs, plays, and everything in between from our talented students and fabulous special guests.

Chelene Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book Award, and long-listed for the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Her essays have appeared in multiple Canadian and American literary journals, plus the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, and the Toronto Star. Her work is anthologized in Making Room, Love Me True, Sustenance, The Summer Book, and Black Writers Matter. The Toronto Star called Knight, “one of the storytellers we need most right now.” Knight was the previous managing editor at Room (2016- June 2019), and programming director for the Growing Room Festival (2018, 2019), and now CEO of #LearnWritingEssentials and Breathing Space Creative. She often gives talks about home, belonging and belief, inclusivity, and community building through authentic storytelling. Knight is currently working on Junie, a novel set in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley, forthcoming in 2020. She was selected as a 2019 Writers' Trust Rising Star by David Chariandy.

This event takes place on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish people.

Accessibility:
Hood 29 is wheelchair-accessible, with no stairs at the entrance, and a variety of seating. The path to the washrooms is a little narrow, but wide enough to be accessible via wheelchair according to the venue. Washrooms are single use.