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BIPOC Book Lovers: Applications now open for NEW FOLD Program Advisory Team!

Aug 8, 2022

The Festival of Literary Diversity is accepting applications from Indigenous, Black and racialized applicants for a new FOLD Program Advisory Team (FPAT) — an evolution of our FOLD Planning Team. FPAT members meet virtually 4-5 times per year and will agree to serve for a two-year term that involves contributing to programming decisions including festival...

Four titles chosen for the FOLD February Challenge

FOLD Challenge 2020 | 2. Book by an Author from the Caribbean

Feb 3, 2020

By Nadia L. Hohn This February 2020, we travel to the Caribbean to read books from Canadian authors with roots in this region. With wide influences from oral traditions, tropical landscapes and migration through to diasporas and mixed identities, I present to you a Caribbean literature reading list. 1) Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta...

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Check out @farahheronauthor’s novel JANA GOES WILD for this week’s #TitleTuesday. It’s available now with HachetteBookGroup!

A delightful rom-com of a woman trying to shed her perfect image at a destination wedding with hilarious—and moving—results.

[Image description: white square graphic showcasing the cover art for Farah Heron’s novel JANA GOES WILD. Illustration of a pink and orange sky with a South Asian woman, giraffe, and elephant intertwined with the letters of the title. Next to the title is an excerpt of text from the book. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag, #TitleTuesday, and a website, thefoldcanada.org.]

#TitleTuesday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #WeNeedDiverseBooks

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Good morning, and happy #MondayMotivation! Lovely quote by @trapmystic speaking on queer joy and what it means to her.

What does queer joy mean to you?

[Image description: green square with a quote from Tanya Turton, author of JADE IS A TWISTED GREEN in white text: Queer joy: it is a manifestation of joy and the exciting feeling to just be alive. An illustration of a man of colour writing in his notebook at a desk. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag, #MondayMotivation, and a website, thefoldcanada.org.]

#MotivationMonday #LiteraryFestivals #Fold2023 #DiverseCanLit

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This week’s #FOLDProgramFriday highlight is Melanie Proulx’s comic “Hyperthyroidism…Again.”

Read the comic in full on the FOLD website today. See link in our bio for details!

[Image description: white square graphic showing an excerpt from the comic “Hyperthyroidism…Again” by Melanie Proulx. Four comic strip boxes with illustrations of a woman with hyperthyroidism functioning through COVID.]

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This #ThrowbackThursday is from the #Fold2022 Return: Writing Our Way Home panel that featured authors Kamal Al-Solaylee, @tseringylama, and @omar_aok, hosted by Shoilee Khan.

[Image description: authors being interviewed sitting on gray chairs on stage. There is an East Asian woman, a Brown woman, and two Brown men smiling at each other. In front of them is a coffee table with books on it. In the background are green plants and a Festival of Literary Diversity roll-up banner.]

#LiteraryFestivals #ThrowbackThursday #Memories

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This week, the featured #TitleTuesday is @priya.guns’s novel, YOUR DRIVER IS WAITING. Available now with @penguincanada!

A wild, one-sitting read brimming with dark comedy, and piercing social commentary and announcing Priya Guns’s feverishly original voice, Your Driver Is Waiting is a crackling send-up of our culture of modern alienation.

[Image description: white square graphic showcasing the cover art for Priya Gun’s novel, YOUR DRIVER IS WAITING. Illustration of a South Asian woman in the rearview mirror of a car. A burning green tree-shaped air freshener hangs from the mirror with the book's title on it. The background is pink. Next to the title is an excerpt of text from the book. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag, #TitleTuesday, and a website, thefoldcanada.org.]

#DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #WeNeedDiverseBooks

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What inspires your writing?

@abdaddy reminds us that some of our greatest ideas come from living. So this morning, we urge you to live your best and most beautiful life!

Let us know in the comments where you find inspiration!

[Image description: pink square with a quote from Abdi Nazemian, author of THE CHANDLER LEGACIES in white text: So much of creativity is about living, about having new experiences and being open to them. An illustration of a woman of colour and her son sitting on the floor reading a book together. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag, #MondayMotivation, and a website, thefoldcanada.org.]

#MotivationMonday #LiteraryFestivals #Fold2022 #DiverseCanLit

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Woohoo! #FOLDProgramFriday is here with Bobbie Kumar’s poem, “Wolf and Cub.”

Read the story in full on the FOLD website today. See link in our bio for details!

[Image description: white square graphic showing an excerpt from the poem “Wolf and Cub” by Bobbie Kumar. Line art of a howling wolf.]

#FOLDProgramFriday #FOLDProgram #DiverseCanLit

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FOLD trip to the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival!

While we were there, we set up camp for some enlightening conversations with the awesome lineup of featured authors (shoutouts to all the FOLD alumni 😆), indulged in some delicious bites from the food court, and even chatted with the some of you that we saw there!

Overall, we had a great time, and we were happy we got to attend ☺️

#LiteraryFestivals #ReadCanadian #CanLit

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Lovely smiles from André Alexis and @jaelrichardson during the final panel for #Fold2022!

[Image description: Black man and Black woman laughing, sitting on grey chairs on stage. In front of them is a coffee table with a stack of books on it. In the background are two artificial trees, a FESTIVAL OF LITERARY DIVERSITY roll-up banner, and a red curtain.]

#LiteraryFestivals #ThrowbackThursday #Memories #Fold2022

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For this week’s #TitleTuesday, the spotlight is on @janiechang33’s novel, THE PORCELAIN MOON. Available now with @harpercollinsca!

THE PORCELAIN MOON is a historical fiction tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what we are willing to risk for freedom.

[Image description: white square graphic showcasing the cover art for Janie Chang’s novel, THE PORCELAIN MOON. Illustration of an East Asian woman wearing a red kimono with her black hair tied in a low bun. The woman is standing on steps, looking into the distance. In the background is a moon and the Eiffel Tower. Next to the title is an excerpt of text from the book. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag, #TitleTuesday, and a website, thefoldcanada.org.]

#TitleTuesday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #WeNeedDiverseBooks #HistoricalFiction

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