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FOLD Challenge 2025

Updates on events, submissions, volunteer opportunities, and the monthly FOLD Challenge.

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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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