FOLD Challenge 2025 Archives

The FOLD Reading Challenge image for August spotlights fantasy novels by queer authors. Covers shown are Iron Widow, Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, The River Has Roots, and A Broken Blade. The FOLD 10th anniversary logo appears at the bottom left.

August FOLD 2025 Challenge: Fantasy by a Queer Author

Aug 1, 2025

By Monika Trzeciakowski This month we’re featuring fantasy by queer authors. Fantasy novels are doorways into magical worlds. These worlds give us the opportunity to explore the prejudices against the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in a different setting or to remove these prejudices altogether. While it’s important to hear a wide variety of stories from the queer...

The FOLD Reading Challenge image for July spotlights graphic novels by marginalized authors. Covers shown are Denison Avenue, Gleem, Something, Not Nothing, and A Witch’s Guide to Burning. The FOLD 10th anniversary logo appears at the bottom left.

July FOLD 2025 Challenge: Graphic Novel by an Author from a Marginalized Community

Jul 1, 2025

By Monica Tang This month’s reading challenge is to read a graphic novel by an author from a marginalized community. Graphic novels demonstrate the power of visual storytelling by combining words and pictures, often in the form of comics, to share stories of fiction, non-fiction, memoirs and more. The book that has shaped the way...

White graphic with four book covers across the middle. Text reads: The FOLD Reading Challenge, Celebrating a Decade of Change. Dystopian Novel by an Indigenous Author. June. For monthly reading suggestions visit thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2025

June FOLD 2025 Challenge: Dystopian Novel by an Indigenous Author

Jun 1, 2025

By Calyssa Erb June is National Indigenous History Month and on June 21 we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples’ Day. With over 2 million Indigenous people living within what is now called Canada, Indigenous people are a diverse group made up of many different cultures, thirteen different language groups, and more than sixty-five distinct dialects. These...

May FOLD 2025 Challenge: Book by a Brampton Author

Apr 30, 2025

By emmy nordstrom higdon As the birthplace of the FOLD, Brampton, also known as Flower City, boasts a thriving literary scene. It has a robust library system, stores like Brampton Books and Knowledge Bookstore, and even a creative writing group that has published their own anthology: Rhapsody Lane – A Selection of Works from Flower City...

April FOLD 2025 Challenge: Poetry by a South Asian Canadian Author

Apr 1, 2025

By Monica Nathan 10 years ago, Rupi Kaur’s milk and honey exploded onto the literary scene, inspiring a new generation of poetry lovers and revitalizing the genre in ways this country hadn’t seen in decades. milk and honey became a cultural phenomenon, translated into over 40 languages and selling more than 11 million copies worldwide,...

March FOLD 2025 Challenge: Memoir by a Transgender Author

Mar 1, 2025

By Hudson Lin & Ardo Omer In the last decade, we’ve seen an increase of trans authors sharing their stories and taking control of their narratives both in fiction and non-fiction. While fiction has the power to transport a reader, let’s not underestimate the visceral truth of non-fiction especially memoir. Memoir reveals to us the...

February FOLD 2025 Challenge: Literary Fiction by a Caribbean Canadian Author

Feb 1, 2025

By Alya Somar Caribbean Canadian literary fiction has been present for many years in the CanLit scene. As immigration policies have shifted and changed over the decades, so has the work being produced by authors in Canada. Writers that have either come from the West Indies, or have heritage there, have used their lived experiences...

White graphic with gold boarder. Title reads: FOLD Reading Challenge, Celebrating a Decade of Change. Four book covers: Ayesha At Last by Uzma Jalaluddin; Love, Lies, and Cherry Pie by Jackie Lau; Lady Kidlat Meets Her Match by Jaclyn Q. Martinez; Hard Sell by Hudson Lin. All are romances by Asian Canadian Authors for the January reading challenge. For more books, visit thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2025.

January FOLD 2025 Challenge: Romance by an Asian Canadian Author

Jan 2, 2025

By Hudson Lin There are a lot of reasons why it’s a good idea to start 2025 off with a romance genre reading challenge. First, there have been a lot of things to be sad, worried, and angry about recently. The world is on fire with conflicts both physical and ideological; society is becoming more...

White horizontal graphic with gold border. The FOLD Reading Challenge. Celebrating a Decade of Change. Lists each reading challenge by month. A the bottom is a bookshelf with icons for audiobooks, paperbacks, and eReaders.

2025 FOLD Reading Challenge

Jan 1, 2025

Happy New Years, Book Lovers! We’re so excited to share this year’s 2025 FOLD Reading Challenge! In keeping with our 2025 Festival of Literary Diversity 10th anniversary theme “A Decade of Change”, this year’s challenge is inspired by the 12 books that shaped the way we read. Visit the FOLD Reading Challenge page to...

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