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Starts: Sunday, 01 January 2023
Ends: Sunday, 31 December 2023
Read queer books! Win amazing prizes from LGBTQIA+ businesses!
Queer Your Year is a yearlong challenge celebrating queer lit, hosted by Laura Sackton of Books & Bakes. The idea is simple: we're going to read a ton of queer books and have the best time. This page is full of recommendations, but keep in mind that in order to be entered into the monthly raffles and win prizes, you must be subscribed to Books & Bakes.
The challenge includes 48 prompts. I purposely came up with a list of prompts that is a mix of serious and silly, fun and challenging. I want this challenge to be what you need it to be: if you want to use it as permission to read a whole lot of queer fluff, there are prompts for that! If you want to challenge yourself to read queer books outside your comfort zone, there are prompts for that, too! Everyone is invited to this celebration.
You can view and download the game card here. Whenever you complete a prompt, write down the name of the book you read on your game card. You don’t have to do the prompts in order, and you don’t have to do all of them (or even half of them!) to participate. This challenge is about celebrating queer lit, not about reading as much as you can. Even if you only complete one prompt, you’ll still have twelve chances to win prizes!
Queer Your Year is a yearlong challenge celebrating queer lit, hosted by Laura Sackton of Books & Bakes. The idea is simple: we're going to read a ton of queer books and have the best time. This page is full of recommendations, but keep in mind that in order to be entered into the monthly raffles and win prizes, you must be subscribed to Books & Bakes.
The challenge includes 48 prompts. I purposely came up with a list of prompts that is a mix of serious and silly, fun and challenging. I want this challenge to be what you need it to be: if you want to use it as permission to read a whole lot of queer fluff, there are prompts for that! If you want to challenge yourself to read queer books outside your comfort zone, there are prompts for that, too! Everyone is invited to this celebration.
You can view and download the game card here. Whenever you complete a prompt, write down the name of the book you read on your game card. You don’t have to do the prompts in order, and you don’t have to do all of them (or even half of them!) to participate. This challenge is about celebrating queer lit, not about reading as much as you can. Even if you only complete one prompt, you’ll still have twelve chances to win prizes!
In the last newsletter of each month, I’ll randomly select 6-8 numbers. It’s like bingo! If you’ve completed any of the prompts that correspond to those numbers, you’ll have till the end of the month to submit your game card. Everyone who submits a game card will be entered into the monthly raffle for prizes. One number = one entry. If you’ve completed all six of the winning prompts for that month, you’ll get six raffle entries!
Reminders:
- All books must be queer! This includes books by LGBTQIA+ authors and/or books that focus on queer themes and characters.
- Feel free to use a book for more one than one prompt.
- Everyone who submits a game card with a winning number will receive a Queer Your Year prize pack (one prize pack per person for the whole year). Prize packs ship internationally!
- Unfortunately, monthly prizes are only available within the U.S.
Check out the full details here, including information about the rad monthly prizes, plus lots more book recs and resources!
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
