Queer Your Year 2024

Starts: Monday, 01 January 2024

Ends: Tuesday, 31 December 2024

Queer Your Year is a yearlong challenge celebrating queer lit, hosted by Laura Sackton of Books & Bakes. I had so much fun in 2023 that I'm doing it again in 2024! This year I'll be hosting the challenge on Instagram (@openbookopen).

There are 48 prompts. It's a lot! The idea is to read queerly and widely, not to finish every prompt. However, because I know some people love completing challenges, Queer Your Year 2024 is divided into four smaller seasonal bingo boards.

The seasonal Queer Your year bingos will run for 3 months each, and include 12 reading prompts and 4 non-reading prompts. Every bingo you get = one entry in a raffle for a queer book of your choice from an indie bookstore of your choice. Check out the bingo cards (and all the details) here.

Rules & Reminders:

All books must be queer! This means whatever you want it to mean: queer author, queer characters, queer themes, queer subject, etc. We do not gatekeep what is and isn't queer lit around here.
All prompts are open to interpretation!
Feel free to use books for more than one prompt.
If you want to join one of the 4 seasonal challenges, you can find them here: (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December).

If you’re on Instagram, post what you’re reading using the #QueerYourYear hashtag, and tag me (@openbookopen), so that I can share your posts.

Ready to queer your year? Let's go!

Challenge Prompts

1. A book published by a new-to-you indie press

2. A book of poetry published before 2010

3. An anti-colonial book

4. A book with illustrations

5. Arab author

6. Trans woman or transfemme author

7. A prompt from last year’s challenge you didn’t complete, or want to do again

8. A work of historical fiction (or any book published before 1969) with a happy ending / about queer joy

9. Queer in form / structure

10. A memoir by a Black author

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