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What's on your TBR list for #TitleTuesday? Today we're diving into the words of @KimiaEslah, whose novel SISTER SEEN, SISTER HEARD is out now with @fernpub. Get your copy today!

We can't think of a better way to start the week than by celebrating this fact: poetry is everywhere. Thank you for your words and your brilliance, @dodelisca! #MondayMotivation

Today's #FoldProgramFriday post comes to us courtesy of @Leanne.Charette.Poet, whose wonderful poem "Infinitive: A State Of Being" was published in our 2022 FOLD Festival Program.

You can read the poem in full on our website today!

#DiverseCanLit #Poetry #Poems #Poets #DisabledWriters #DisabledCanadianWriters

Look at these wonderful smiles! Today's #ThrowbackThursday photo takes us back to EDUCATE ME, our panel with @AnnYKChoi, @UzmaJalaluddin, @BenPhilippe, and @haamyue at #FOLD2019. Can wait to see your smiling faces at FOLD again in the future!

#LiteraryFestivals #Fold2019 #DiverseCanLit #Educators #EducatorPanels #Teachers #TeachingLiterature #DiverseLit

It's one of our favourite days of the week--#TitleTuesday! Today we're curling up with WHEN WE LOST OUR HEADS, the latest from @oneillreads. Available today wherever you get your books.

#TitleTuesday #CanLit #DiverseCanLit #CanadianAuthors #HistoricalFiction

Today, we're starting our week off with these powerful words from @KaiChengThom at #FOLD2022. Here's to a world where ALL bodies are seen and celebrated, and no one is left behind. #MondayMotivation

[Image description: a purple square graphic with a quote from author Kai Cheng Thom--author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE--in white text: A world where no body is left behind -- but a world where every body is also SEEN. That is my dream. Beneath the text is a hashtag, #MondayMotivation, and a website: thefoldcanada.org.]

Curling up this weekend with “Dil Soji”, by @giammi.v, published in the 2022 FOLD Festival Program.

Catch the poem in full on our website today!

[White square graphic with an excerpt from the poem “Dil Solji”, by Gian Marco Visconti, published in the 2022 FOLD Festival Program. Beside the text is a black and white outline illustration of an anatomical heart.]

#FoldProgram2022 #FoldProgram #Poetry #EdmontonPoets #DiverseCanLit

For the September FOLD Challenge, we are reading BIPOC authors from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand! Featuring titles from Becky Manawatu, Safdar Ahmed, Eugen Bacon, and Alice Pung. Check out our recommendations on the FOLD website--and let us know of others you might want to recommend! #FoldChallenge #ReadingChallenge #DiverseLit #AmReading

Today for #TitleTuesday we are curling up with some translated literature courtesy of @DundurnPress! The wondrous world of CELIA, MISOKA, I--written by Xue Ywei and translated by Stephen Nashef--has us spellbound. Get your copy today, wherever you get your books!

Starting our week off with these powerful, affirming words from editor extraordinaire Aeman Ansari. Take note, BIPOC writers! #MondayMotivation #Editing #AmWriting

This #FoldProgramFriday, we’re floating up into the stars with “Constellations Are For The Tame”, by Amal Rana. Read this and other beautiful work in our 2022 Festival Program, available now on the FOLD website at thefoldcanada.org!

#FoldProgramFriday #Poetry #AmalRana #FoldProgram2022 #ConstellationsAreForTheTame

It was so wonderful to see so many people back in person at this year’s May festival—an experience we can’t wait to have again at this year’s @foldkids!

Keep your eye out for more news about our upcoming kidlit festival—featuring a mixture of in-person, virtual, and hybrid sessions. Registration opens October 6!

#DiverseCanLit #Festivals #ThrowbackThursday #LiteraryFestivals #Authors #Literature DiverseCanLit #Festivals #ThrowbackThursday #LiteraryFestivals #Authors #Literature #VolunteersAreTheBest