Questions tagged [topic-challenge]
For the site's monthly topic challenge posts, inviting users to read and ask/answer questions about specific works of literature in a specific timeframe, or for questions about these topic challenges.
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Suggest your Lit.SE reading challenges here! [duplicate]
A few days ago, I asked about starting up reading challenges, with a particular goal in mind. Many of our questions are about the same authors, the same stories, the same genres, the same cultures. ...
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Do we want something akin to topic challenges for books outside our bailiwick, to help alleviate the book diversity problem?
Our site's growing a bit of a diversity problem. Most of us have read many of the same books, and so many of the questions we get are... about those books specifically. The top site tags betrays this ...
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New Literature SE Topic Challenge Suggestions Thread
Topic challenges for Literature SE were first proposed and enacted in March 2017. The motivation for these, as well as to bring our users together in a community activity of reading the same books or ...
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Announcing the April 2017 Topic Challenge: "Hard to Be a God"
After the support gained here for the idea of regular topic challenges on Literature as a way of hopefully broadening our cultural scope, a new post was set up here to gather suggestions for specific ...
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Announcing the Return of the Topic Challenges! Oct-Nov 2019: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Topic challenges are back ... but with a difference!
Early in July, Aza posted Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them? to address the problem of decreasing ...
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Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?
Monthly topic challenges on Lit.SE don't get a whole lot of attention. Christopher Strobbe rightfully points out that participation has been almost negligible in recent months. This is in spite of ...
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Announcing the July–August 2022 topic challenge: Ukrainian Literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the July–...
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Announcing the August 2017 Topic Challenge: “Sophie's World”
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as July nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge!...
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Announcing the July 2017 Topic Challenge: "I Am a Cat"
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a clear winner as June nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout ...
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Announcing the June 2017 topic challenge: The SEA is Ours
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, May is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout June 2017, ...
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Announcing the May 2017 topic challenge: Icelandic Sagas!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, seeing that the votes have stabilised, April is nearing its end, and it's time to announce the next topic challenge! Throughout May 2017,...
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Announcing the October–November 2020 topic challenge: Rabindranath Tagore
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the May–June 2023 topic challenge: the works of Robert Louis Stevenson
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
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Announcing the February–March 2020 topic challenge: Haruki Murakami
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months
that overlap by one month, it is time to announce the February–...
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What would be a good timeslot for bimonthly chat sessions?
In a comment on "Monthly Topic Challenges aren't getting much attention. How can we change them?", heather made the following suggestion:
It might be interesting to have the topic challenge, but ...
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Announcing the April–May 2023 topic challenge: the works of Abdulrazak Gurnah
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the April–...
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Announcing the November–December 2022 topic challenge: Nazi Holocaust literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the December 2020–January 2021 topic challenge: literary theory
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the March–April 2023 topic challenge: Hayy ibn Yaqdhan / Philosophus Autodidactus
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the March–...
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Announcing the December 2022–January 2023 topic challenge: the works of Min Jin Lee
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the May 2018 topic challenge: Ursula K. Le Guin
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the end of April, it's time to announce the next topic challenge! ...
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Announcing the June–July 2023 topic challenge: the works of Ales Adamovich
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the June–...
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Announcing the January–February 2022 topic challenge: R. A. Lafferty
UPDATE: during its second month (February 2022), this topic challenge will be held jointly with Science Fiction & Fantasy SE. Note that, for written sci-fi stories, the two sites' scopes don't ...
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Announcing the November–December 2021 topic challenge: The Decameron
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Promote the topic challenges across SE
I wish I'd known about the topic challenge Icelandic Sagas when it happened. Likewise, I'm sure there are people that are interested in some of the current challenges. Is there any way these ...
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Announcing the September–October 2022 topic challenge: Lasha Bugadze
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the February–March 2022 topic challenge: the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the April 2019 topic challenge: Jean Rhys
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month (+8, -2), it is time to announce the next ...
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Announcing the October–November 2022 topic challenge: Stanisław Lem
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time (okay, sorry, overdue)...
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Announcing the August–September 2022 topic challenge: the Koran
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the May–June 2021 topic challenge: the Mahabharata and its adaptations
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the May–...
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Announcing the March 2018 Topic Challenge: the works of Michael Ende
Two days late (sorry), here's the next Literature SE topic challenge: our first author-based challenge!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of ...
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Announcing the September 2017 Topic Challenge: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as August nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the November 2018 topic challenge: the Kalevala
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the September 2018 topic challenge: Elif Şafak
The September topic challenge is now ongoing!
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as August comes to an ...
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Announcing the February 2018 Topic Challenge: “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
After a brief hiatus over the Christmas and New Year period (because apparently virtual hats and topic challenges are too much fun to have all at the same time), Lit.SE topic challenges are back!
In ...
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Announcing the September–October 2021 topic challenge: Belarusian Literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the August 2018 Topic Challenge: Nalo Hopkinson
This summer is hot, and I hope the same for this month's topic challenge:
the works of Nalo Hopkinson
suggested by user111 (who has since left this site).
Hopkinson (Twitter handle @...
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Announcing the October 2017 Topic Challenge: "A Grain of Wheat", by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as September nears its end, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the June–July 2022 topic challenge: Isabelle Eberhardt
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the June–...
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Announcing the March–April 2022 topic challenge: medieval Arthurian literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the March–...
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Announcing the February–March 2021 topic challenge: Os Lusíadas / The Lusiads
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the ...
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Rule for selecting a topic challenge among those with the same number of votes
Each month we select a new topic challenge that will start one month later and run for two months. Usually, the next topic challenge is simply based on which suggestion has the highest number of votes ...
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Announcing the June–July reading challenge: Korean Folklore
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the June–...
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Announcing the March–April 2020 topic challenge: R. K. Narayan
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months
that overlap by one month, it is time to announce the March–...
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Announcing the November 2017 reading challenge: "Tower of Secrets"
As October nears its end, it's time to announce the next month's challenge! At the time of writing this, the leading suggestion is...
Tower of Secrets, by Victor Sheymov, suggested by BESW.
To provide ...
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Announcing the January–February 2023 topic challenge: sign language literature
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month,
it is time to announce the ...
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Announcing the May 2019 topic challenge: "My Uncle Napoleon"
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry as April draws to a close, it's time to announce the next topic ...
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Announcing the March 2019 reading challenge: Release the Sun, by William Sears
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges, and since the list of suggestions has a single highest-voted entry at the start of this month (+10, -5), it is time to announce the next ...
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Announcing the April–May 2020 topic challenge: The Stranger / Meursault
In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges
and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months
that overlap by one month, it is time to announce the April–...
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