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[Image Description: blue graphic with photo of East Asian woman with black hair in a ponytail, wearing a black shirt. In front of her is a green hard cover book with gold text and sprayed edges. Text reads: Monday, September 15, 7:30pm. The Rose Theatre, Brampton. The FOLD Presents: An Evening with R.F. Kuang. In conversation with Jael Richardson. $18 Admission Only. $55 Admission + Book.]

We are so excited to welcome R.F. Kuang back to the Rose Theatre in Brampton!

On Monday, September 15 at 7:30pm, R.F. Kuang joins the FOLD's executive director, Jael Richardson, in conversation about her new novel, Katabasis.

Tickets are on sale now! Visit thefoldcanada.org/rfkuang for more info.

Happy 10th anniversary to #FOLD2025! Congratulations to @jaelrichardson.bsky.social and the rest of the @thefoldcanada.bsky.social organizing team for putting together yet another excellent program.

I can't wait to be back in Brampton next year for year 11!

The Rose Theatre in Brampton with a large banner for The Festival of Literary Diversity.

Bubble pillar celebrating 10 years of The Fold.

Smiling author with lanyard.

Such an honour and thrill to attend @thefoldcanada.bsky.social this weekend! Truly one of the best literary festivals in the country.

Here for the High Tea! #FOLD2025

Oh also related to this, please follow/support the @thefoldcanada.bsky.social like they literally facilitated these interactions.

They live posted panels this week.

I see tons of people jumping down orgs/festivals that do things wrong.

Fair.

But also let's support orgs doing great. 🖤

One more point about @thefoldcanada.bsky.social Today I had 5 separate Trinidadian women come up to the signing table and say, I thought I was alone. I like SF but I have never seen myself represented. Or, I have tried to write and I have never found a writing group person who understood +

A collection of books surrounding the 10th anniversary program for The Festival of Literary Diversity. They include Wild Life by Amanda Leduc, The Match Faker by Ruby Barrett, Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin, The Brampton Poetry Project, Attic Rain by Samantha Jones, It Must Be Beautiful To Be Finished by Kate Gies, and last but definitely not least, Countess by Suzan Palumbo.

Some treasures from authors featured at the FOLD @thefoldcanada.bsky.social, which is having its 10th anniversary. This is such a wonderful literary festival - I look forward to it every year. Lots of great panel conversations today, and now it's on to the spoken word showcase tonight!

#FOLD2025

Authors Suzan Palumbo, Amanda Leduc, R.F. Kuang, Lindo Forbes sitting on a couch

The Novel Ideas panel @thefoldcanada.bsky.social ❤️📚

Mattea Roach, Amal Elena Alh’Jooj, Morgan Campbell, Tanya Talaga sitting on a couch and talking to each other

Critical conversations panel @thefoldcanada.bsky.social

Home - The FOLD

On the Go Train to Brampton for the @thefoldcanada.bsky.social! ❤️📚 thefoldcanada.org

A picture if the Rose theatre stage with a Jazz band bathed in blue light. Jael the host and founder if fold is at the mic.

I had a lovely time at @thefoldcanada.bsky.social readception. The musicians and readers were incredible.

It was heartening to be at an event that has diverse art, writing and readers at its core in these uncertain times.
You all should give their account a follow. It's good work their doing.

What a joyous evening filled with beautiful words and gorgeous colour at Daniel Maluka's PAINT AND POETRY NIGHT. Thanks to all who came and crafted such inspiring pieces based on Daniel's poems.

That's a wrap on Day Five of #FOLD2025, join us tomorrow evening for THE GREAT READCEPTION at The Rose.

Great morning w students @thefoldcanada.bsky.social learning from @davidarobertson.bsky.social & @tanyatalaga.bsky.social about family, community & the writing process. Inspiring! Thank you everyone! #FOLD2025

A little BTS look at spoken word poets Wali Shah, Lisa Shen, Joshua "Scribe" Watkis, and host Spitty - another exclusive event for school groups.

If you'd like to see a Spoken Word Showcase, check out our event this Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. EST only at the Rose Theatre #FOLD2025

FOLD DAY 5: We kicked off with a student session featuring Tanya Talaga, David A. Robertson & Alyssa Gray-Tyghter talking about family & the importance of Indigenous community & storytelling
#FOLD2025

I'm going to be at the Rose theatre on Saturday with R.F. Kuang and Amanda LuDuc for the FOLD! This will probably be the biggest group I've ever talked about writing in front of 😅 I'll also be at the literary Cabaret tomorrow, which there may be some tickets left for?
Say hi to me if you're there!
😃

Day 4 is officially done, as are our virtual events. Starting tomorrow are our in-person events, beginning with school group events in the morning the The Rose Theatre.

Tomorrow night is our SOLD OUT Paint and Poetry Night at PAMA. Have a good night and see you in-person! #FOLD2025

The Festival of Literary Diversity 2025

Thank you to everyone for joining us on this incredibly informative panel on short stories. Don't forget to join these authors in the after-party roundtable, available only on fold2025.vfairs.com #FOLD2025

Write the thing you're obsessed with and not what you're expected to write. Write for yourself. - Shashi #FOLD2025

Read poetry, that's the secret - JES #FOLD2025

Tips for new writers - love revisions, look at them as best friends and love to do it. Primarily I thought it was frustrating, but now I see revision as the place where the story comes into being - Iryn #FOLD2025

On what short stories can't do what novels can is potentially immerse you in a world or character. There's certain things that the nature of a novel encapsulates you while reading can't be replicated - JES #FOLD2025

Shashi recommends BULLET IN THE BRAIN as well! As does Jack Wang. A masterclass of craft, as it has so many different compressions of time and language. #FOLD2025

JES recommend's Tobias Wolff's BULLET IN THE BRAIN and Kafka's METAMORPHOSIS #FOLD2025

Iryn recommends NO SWEETNESS HERE by Ama Ata Aidoo as a favourite short story #FOLD2025

Short stories connect me to my poet roots in terms of playing with structure, or maybe I'm in my Alice Munro era writing 30 page novels. Very rate a short story for me turns into a novel - JES #FOLD2025

Short stories are so satisfying - they have a beginning, middle, and end, and it just feels succinct. Novels, especially the middle, are so challenging. I feel like I could do well for myself if I just stuck with short stories - Iryn on working in one form vs the other #FOLD2025

People read short stories, but might struggle with a collection from beginning to rend. Sometimes it's hard to finish one, sit with it, then start a completely different type of story. That's disorienting. But, to me, it's also something beautiful - Iryn Tushabe #FOLD

Novels are inherently more immersive and often short stories limit character, which inhibits how audiences interact with the writing. That's most likely a drawback. It's more poetic and provocative but some readers don't want to do the work - John Elizabeth Stintzi #FOLD