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The FOLD is growing! We’re looking for volunteers to join our Planning Team–a group of dedicated volunteers who meet monthly throughout the year to plan the annual Festival of Literary Diversity and related off-season programming events. If you have a passion for books and diversity in literature and think you’d be a good fit for...

What is FOLD’s Fall Book Fest? As part of Culture Days – a nation-wide celebration of art and culture – the FOLD Fall Book Fest will showcase self-published authors of children’s, young adult, and adult literature. The Book Fest will showcase 8-10 self-published authors and spoken word artists performing and/or reading from their work. All...

From the FOLD Writers’ Hub to the FOLD Author Stage Fartumo Kusow discusses her upcoming appearance at FOLD, and her first English-language novel Tale of a Boon’s Wife.   Writing Beginnings My father gave me in notebook after I got in trouble at school talking about another student. He said instead of gossiping or talking...

The FOLD has moved all events previously scheduled at Brampton Library Four Corners branch to PAMA in order to better accommodate the needs of all of our guests. In addition, the Brampton Library has decided to reveal their One Book One Brampton shortlist at their 160th anniversary event on Thursday, May 17. The OBOB event...

Our FOLD Team have been thinking about this schedule for months and it’s a privilege to FINALLY be able to share it with you. As always, we’ve tried to collect a range of stories and voices, and this year, you’ll see a little more genre stories in the mix — as per your request. We...

The FOLD relies heavily on committed volunteers, and as the festival grows in size, and as our year-round programming continues to grow, so does our need for more volunteers. The FOLD is currently looking to fill three roles: FOLD_Media Coordinator, FOLD Hospitality Coordinator, and FOLD_Program Coordinator. The three roles are quite different, but all roles require individuals to...

Today we held our first Write Now Workshop of the season! Check out the Facebook video on our Facebook page. We also want to include Farzana’s fabulous presentation: 5 common mistakes writers make. We had over thirty people at the live event with another 20 tuning into the live stream and over 200 views within thirty minutes...