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[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

The FOLD Challenge

Jan 1, 2021

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Writing offers us powerful tools, both to excavate and to heal. How can words help you to speak about the things you need to speak about? Thanks to Therese Estacion for these stellar thoughts from #Fold2021--may you hold them close through this week and the next.

#MondayMotivation #AmWriting #AmReading #DiverseLit #WeNeedDiverseBooks #DiverseCanLit #DisabilityLit #Poetry #Phantompains #BookHugPress

Today we're curling up with "On Radiance", the amazing essay from Adrian De Leon in our 2021 Festival Program. Check out the essay in full on the FOLD website today! https://thefoldcanada.org/the-fold-program/fold-2021-program/

#FoldProgramFriday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #WeNeedDiverseBooks #FoldFestivalProgram #Fold2021Program

For this #ThrowbackThursday we're heading back to "Stitching Stories", a #FOLD2018 panel conversation featuring Amber Dawn Dane Swan and Lisa Charleyboy. A true pleasure and honour to have all three of you on our stage. Thanks for the words and the wisdom!

#FOLD2018 #StitchingStories #LiteraryFestivals #DiverseCanLit #WeNeedDiverseBooks #ReadCanadian

It's a #TitleTuesday launch alert! Today we're diving into the words of @eddyautomatic, whose latest book, THE REBELLIOUS TIDE, was released into the world on July 17 with @DundurnPress! Get your copy today, booklovers--we know you won't regret it.

#TitleTuesday #ReadCanadian #DiverseCanLit

Today as we head into the week, we're thinking about the innumerable ways in which authors and storytellers give beauty to the world. Thanks for these words of yours at #Fold2021, Tawhida Tanya Evanson. May the coming week bring beauty to all of us!

[ID: Purple square graphic with an icon of a quotation mark and a quote from author Tawhida Tanya Evanson, author of BOOK OF WINGS, in white text: if you receive beauty, then I’ve done my job.
At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag in white: #MondayMotivation and a website: foldcanada.org]

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

We’re celebrating #FoldProgramFriday with “OCD Haiku”, by Samantha Jones, published in this year’s FOLD Festival Program!

To view the Program in full, visit the FOLD website today!

[ID: White square graphic with an excerpt from the poem OCD Haiku: “river swells with melt/ think about raising items/ two feet off the floor

hot afternoons seed/ cumulus cloud and anvils/ compromise the roof”]

#FoldProgramFriday #Fold2021 #Poetry

Look at these two incandescent souls! It’s a #ThrowbackThursday jaunt back to #FOLD2017 and our Last Lecture featuring Eden Robinson and @ellialic.

We can still hear that laughter making its way to to top of the building. Miss you both and can’t wait to have you back at FOLD some day!

[ID: two Indigenous women sit on a raised platform stage in a church, having a conversation. There is a pull-up banner in the background between them that says FOLD.]

#ThrowbackThursday #IndigenousLit #ReadIndigenous #LastLecture #Fold2017

Today we're swimming in the gorgeous words of FOLD alum Silmy Abdullah, and her debut collection HOME OF THE FLOATING LILY. It's out now with @dundurnpress, and trust us when we say: you want to read this RIGHT NOW.

#TitleTuesday #DiverseCanLit #ReadCanadian #ShortStories.

Wise words for us all from Sonali Dev as we begin this week. Do the hardest thing first, writers, and everything else will follow. Try it and see!

{ID: Teal square graphic with an icon of a quotation mark and a quote from author Sonali Dev, author of INCENSE AND SENSIBILITY, in white text: Do the hardest thing when it comes to writing. Do the easiest thing when it comes to all of the other stuff. At the bottom of the graphic is a hashtag in white: #MondayMotivation and a website: foldcanada.org]

#MondayMotivation #AmWriting #AmReading #AuthorPromo #AuthorSocialMedia #SocialMediaSavvy #DiverseLit #WeNeedDiverseBooks

It's another #FOLDProgramFriday--today, featuring the stellar work of the stellar @rowanmccandlesswrites! Catch Rowan's essay, "Room", in full on the FOLD website today at thefoldcanada.org!

[ID: A screenshot showcasing an excerpt from an essay by author Rowan McCandless, entitled "Room". View essay in full at https://thefoldcanada.org]

#FoldProgramFriday #Essays #AmWriting #AmReading

Next up for the #FoldChallenge21: books by BIPOC authors from Europe!

This month we’re curling up with great reads from @faridahlikestea, @zenaldehyde, @hinabelitz & @lourhare. Check out what FOLD Planning Team member Natasha has to say about our recommended reads on this month’s Challenge post over at thefoldcanada.org!

[ID: Books covers for 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]

#FoldChallenge21 #BIPOCauthors #Europe #DiverseLit #WeNeedDiverseBooks #JulyChallenge

Happy #TitleTuesday, friends! Today we're curling up with the brilliant words and brilliant mind of @Genki_Ferguson, author of SATELLITE LOVE. Out now with Penguin Random House Canada, this is one you definitely don't want to miss. Pick up your copy today!