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FOLD 2023 Program

The 2023 FOLD festival program featured essays and poetry from some of Canada’s most exciting writers as well as an overview of our eighth festival.

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You can still catch #Fold2023 sessions on our virtual platform up until June 7! Like THE GREAT READCEPTION: A LITERARY CABARET, featuring this excerpt from @standupali and his book, IS THERE BACON IN HEAVEN?

And if you don’t have a festival pass—don’t worry! You can get one right up to June 7. Get your pass today at https://fold2023.vFairs.com

[[Video description: a bald Brown man stands on a stage reading from his book. Behind him are musicians who are playing music to accompany his reading.]

#LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit #Fold2023 #Authors

Don’t forget, booklovers—you can still catch #Fold2023 sessions on our virtual platform up until June 7! Like our HOW WE DID IT panel, featuring @plettsky @anuja_v and Dan K. Woo in conversation with @kerncarter.

And if you don’t have a festival pass—don’t worry! You can get one right up to June 7. Get your pass today at https://fold2023.vFairs.com

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#LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit #Fold2023 #Authors #PanelConversations

Missing the FOLD? Don’t worry—you can still catch up on all of our 2023 sessions. Including our Great Readception, featuring this excerpt from @anuja_v’s CHRYSALIS! Catch them all in the FOLD virtual platform until June 7.

Don’t have a festival pass? Don’t worry! You can still purchase a festival pass, right up until June 7. Get yours today at https://fold2023.vFairs.com!

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#LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit #Fold2023

Time for a May #FoldChallenge!

This month, we’re digging into mysteries and crime fiction written by Asian Canadian authors.

Featuring titles from @jenleefur, Nathan Ripley, Christopher Huang, and @azkhanbooks. Read more about them on the FOLD website today!

The 2023 FOLD Challenge is sponsored by @audible_ca.

[Image description: White square graphic with a dark purple border, showcasing four book covers for the titles chosen for the FOLD May Challenge: Mystery or crime fiction by an Asian Canadian author. Titles are THE CONJOINED by Jen Sookfong Lee, YOUR LIFE IS MINE by Nathan Ripley, A GENTLEMAN’S MURDER by Christopher Huang, and THE UNQUIET DEAD by Ausma Zehanat Khan. For full list, visit thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2023]

#FoldChallenge23 #ReadingChallenge #Mystery #CrimeFiction #Books #WeNeedDiverseBooks

And that’s a wrap! We are so grateful to all of you for helping to make #Fold2023 a resounding success. Many thanks to our sponsors, community partners, authors, and festival guests—all of whom helped to make this year so special. A big, extra-special thanks to our volunteers, who made all of the virtual and in-person magic happen. We couldn’t have done it without you. Remember: you can catch all of the festival’s recorded sessions on the festival platform until June 7!

You're watching Queen Charlotte...and we're living it in the form of brunch! Check out one of our final events from this Sunday at #Fold2023! it's Historical Fiction High Tea. I've never been hungrier while filming.

Thank you @tkscatering!

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#QueenCharlotte #Bridgerton #CanadaReads #GillerPrize #DiverseBooks #DiverseVoices #CanLit #DiverseCanLit #AmReading #HighTea #Vlog #comewithme

We can't believe it's already the LAST DAY of #Fold2023.

If you didn't purchase a pass, you can buy $10 tickets for the film screening at tinyurl.com/fold2023 or a specialty ticket for Historical Fiction High Tea at thefoldcanada.org!

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12:00pm: Historical Fiction High Tea with @suzettemayr, @o.janika and Sheila Murray

2:00pm: Scarborough Film Screening]

#LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit

Great writing advice shared by @ajhaniazure in is Songwriting Microworkshop! 🎵✍️

Join us in-person at the Rose Theatre for our last two events, the Historical Fiction High Tea and the screening of @legshernandez ’s film, Scarborough!

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#LiteraryFestival #FOLD2023 #SongWriting

Just a regular person on the street wearing a FOLD sweater, nothing to see here. We're listening to The Story of Us on @audible_ca. What's next on your Audible TBR? Don't miss the screening of Catherine's film based on the book Scarborough, May 7, at the Rose Theatre. #WhatAreYouListeningTo #Audible #Sponsor #Fold2023 #DiverseLit #DiverseBooks #Scarborough #TheStoryOfUs #CatherineHernandez #Brampton #DiverseCanLit #CanLit #TBR #audiobook #AmReading #CapCut

@plettsky talking about making connections and building community in her Publishing Microworkshop!

Join us in-person at the Rose Theatre for Books with Buzz and Spoken Work Showcase to tonight!

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#LiteraryFestival #FOLD2023 #Publishing

This funny and heartfelt #Fold2023 panel has so far been about the Bachelor, Taylor Swift, the environment, family reading your work, and spirituality.

It's a very topic-packed panel about Memorable Memoirs!

#memoirs #DiverseCanLit #DiverseLit #CanLit #Superfan #SonOfElsewhere #DisabilityAwareness #ImminentDomains

[Image description: yellow background with quote in white text by Elamin Abdelmahmoud that reads "I wanted the book to be the softest parts of me and the problem with that is you don’t wake up feeling that way every day."]

DAY SEVEN at #Fold2023 is packed at The Rose Theatre!

You can still get your festival pass for today's events or purchase specialty tickets for Historical Fiction High Tea tomorrow at thefoldcanada.org!

[Image description: Square white graphic with an orange border, listing the schedule for the seventh day of the 2023 Festival of Literary Diversity. All times are in ET.

10:00am: Publishing with @plettsky

11:00am: How We Did It with @missbrittab, @plettsky, Dan K. Woo and @kerncarter

12:30pm: Songwriting with @ajhaniazure

1:30pm: Memorable Memoirs

3:00pm: Memoir Writing with @elamin, @jenleefur, @alessandra.nacc

4:00pm: Books with Buzz with @cherie.dimaline, @suzettemayr, @standupali, @legshernandez

7:30pm: The Spoken Word Showcase with @shellymgrace, @shahaddahjack, @alessandra.nacc, Gavin Russell and @thevibeiswild]

#LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit

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