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

Four titles chosen for the FOLD September Challenge: Book by an Author Living with Chronic Illness. Titles selected are Choosing Hope by Munira Premji, Fuse by Hollay Ghadery, Anthony: A Composite Novel, and Why the Rock Falls, by JE Barnard. For full list of titles and descriptions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — September

Sep 1, 2021

[ID: Four titles chosen for the FOLD August Challenge: A Book by a Marginalized Author over 60. Titles selected are Willie by Willie O’Ree, House of Whispers Vol. 3 by Nalo Hopkinson, Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys, and The Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand. For full list of titles and descriptions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org]

2021 FOLD Challenge — August

Aug 3, 2021

[ID: Four titles chosen for the FOLD July Challenge: A BIPOC author from Europe. Titles selected are Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Black Water Sister by Zen Cho, To Lahore with Love, by Hina Belitz, and This Lovely City by Louise Hare. For full list of titles and descriptions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org]

2021 FOLD Challenge — July

Jul 1, 2021

Four titles chosen for the FOLD June Challenge: Nonfiction by a Trans or Non-Binary Author. Titles selected are Care Of by Ivan Coyote, Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi, The Conscious Creative by Kelly Small, and Like A Boy But Not A Boy, by andrea bennett. For full list of titles and descriptions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — June

Jun 1, 2021

Four titles chosen for the FOLD May Challenge: A Work of historical fiction by a writer of colour. For full list of titles and suggestions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org/readingchallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — May

May 1, 2021

The covers for four books chosen for the 2021 FOLD April Challenge: A Book that experiments with form by an Asian Canadian author. For full titles and descriptions, please visit www.thefoldcanada.org/ReadingChallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — April

Apr 6, 2021

The covers for four books chosen for the FOLD March Challenge: An Audiobook by a FOLD 2021 author

2021 FOLD Challenge — March

Mar 1, 2021

Four titles chosen for the 2021 FOLD February Challenge: a book that explores racism by a Black Canadian author. For full list of challenges and recommendations, please visit thefoldcanada.org/ReadingChallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — February

Feb 1, 2021

Four titles chosen for the 2021 FOLD Reading Challenge. For full list, please visit thefoldcanada.org/ReadingChallenge2021

2021 FOLD Challenge — January

Jan 4, 2021

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Curling up today with the latest from Brampton's very own Ian Williams. DISORIENTATION: BEING BLACK IN THE WORLD is an extraordinary book from an extraordinary mind, and one that you should put in your TBR pile now if you haven't already!

#TitleTuesday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #BramProud #NonFiction #WestonPrizeFinalist

For this Monday's words of wisdom, we're turning to FOLD alum and owner of Laberinto Press, Luciana Erregue. The next time you pick up a translated book, think about all of the magic of brain and heart that went into making it possible. #MondayMotivation

Happy Friday, readers! Today we’re basking in the late summer sun with an essay from @glass_emptyness, published in our 2021 Festival Program. You can read the essay in full on our website today!

#FOLDProgramFriday

Flashing back to #FOLD2019 and our Black Writers Matter panel, featuring the luminous @notianwilliams, Whitney French, Cecil Foster, and Esi Edugyan in conversation with Natasha Henry.

FOLD memories are the best memories. You heard it here first!

#ThrowbackThursday #BlackWritersMatter #FOLD2019

Curling up on this bright summerish day (autumn is coming! Autumn is coming!) with CHINA UNBOUND, by @joanna_chiu5. Out with @houseofanansi later this September—pre-order your copy today!

#TitleTuesday

Looking for the perfect sentiment to start your writing week? Look no further than these incandescent words from author and FOLD alum Jasmine Guillory. Somewhere out there is your reader--write that story, and you'll find them! #MondayMotivation

Curling up today with “On Disability”, the extraordinary essay from @susanmockler published in our 2021 FOLD Festival Program. Originally published in @thismagca, this essay is fierce and important and necessary reading for all of us.

Read it in full on the FOLD website today!

#FOLDProgram #DisabilityLit #DisLit #Accessibility

It’s not every day that you see legends together on the same stage. Thanks to Rabindranath Maharaj, Lee Maracle, and Kim Thúy for gracing our stage at #FOLD2018, and to @carrianneleung for moderating this amazing conversation. Hope to have you all back on the FOLD stage one day!

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For today's #TitleTuesday, we're curling up with a new book by another FOLD alum. SERENA SINGH FLIPS THE SCRIPT is the newest book from Sonya Lalli and we are FLIPPING LOVING it. Get your copy today! #TitleTuesday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian

Today, we're sitting with these gorgeous words from Yara El-Ghadban, spoken earlier this year at #Fold2021. Sitting and giving thanks to the magic that is writing. May your words give you comfort and space this week, writers--and may they also bring comfort to others. Let's get writing.

#MondayMotivation #AmWriting #AmReading #DiverseCanLit #WeNeedDiverseBooks #ReadCanadian

We’re spending the long weekend with beautiful words—like this poem, “Wolf”, by Sneha Subramanian Kanta, published in our 2021 FOLD Festival Program. Catch this and so many other wonderful pieces on the FOLD website today!

#FOLDProgram #Poetry

New month, new #FOLDChallenge! Read what FOLD Planning Team member Alex has to say about the September challenge: An Author Living With Chronic Illness. On the FOLD website today!

Feat. @munirapremji, @hollayghadery, @shaynemcgreal, and @je_barnard. Sponsored by @audible_ca!

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