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FOLD Reading Challenge – June 2026: Novel Featuring Found Family by a Queer Author

Jun 1, 2026

By Hudson Lin (@hudsonlinwrites) For many folks in the LGBTQ community, choosing who they consider to be members of their family is a powerful way to find belonging. Especially for queer people of colour, who may come from more conservative cultures, creating a found family becomes essential for building reliable and encouraging support systems....

FOLD Reading Challenge – April 2026: Poetry Collection by a Disabled Author

Apr 1, 2026

By Alya Somar (@alya.somar) For April, the FOLD is spotlighting a number of poetry collections from disabled authors. With the Paralympics wrapped up in March, the disabled community is at the forefront of Canadians’ minds. As of 2022, Statistics Canada reported that “27% of Canadians aged 15 years and older, or 8.0 million people,...

FOLD Reading Challenge – March 2026: Non-fiction Featuring Food by a Marginalized Author

Mar 1, 2026

By Monica Tang (@goldfishreads) Few things bring people together better than food. For many people, food comforts us and brings communities together. Food engages all five senses from hearing the sounds of cooking, seeing vibrant colours on plates, smelling the aromas of spices, tasting savoury and sweet dishes, and feeling the textures when you...

FOLD Reading Challenge – February 2026: Romance by a Queer Male Author

Feb 1, 2026

By Hudson Lin (@hudsonlinwrites) February is the month of romance, and this year, we’re featuring romances by queer male authors. One age-old debate in the world of queer romance—specifically male/male romance where both protagonists are men—is the question of who is allowed to write the stories of queer men. The vast majority of authors...

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...

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...

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