FOLD Director's Blog Posts

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...

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...