JULY 24th, 2025 (WORLDWIDE): The Pixel Project, an anti-Violence Against Women non-profit, will be holding the eleventh annual Fall Edition of their Read For Pixels YouTube Livestream series. Read For Pixels 2025 (Fall Edition) features YouTube livestream sessions with award-winning bestselling authors in support of The Pixel Project’s work to stop Violence Against Women (VAW). Participating authors include Ai Jiang, Angela Yuriko Smith, Catriona Ward, Cerece Rennie Murphy, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Cindy O’ Quinn, Delia Pitts, Eden Royce, Errick Nunnally, John Langan, Laurie R. King, Premee Mohamed, Rachel Harrison, Richard Kadrey, Robert V.S. Redick, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and SJ Rozan.
Read For Pixels 2025 (Fall Edition) YouTube livestream sessions will run on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays throughout September 2025. Each session will feature an author reading from one of their books and discussing women and girls in their books, why they support ending violence against women, and women in the media, geek culture, and popular culture. Each session will also include a live moderated Q&A session for fans and book lovers to ask their favourite authors questions in real time.
Participating authors have also generously donated a range of exclusive goodies to help The Pixel Project encourage fans and book lovers to donate to the Read For Pixels campaign including: author-curated goodie bundles, signed book bundles, 1-to-1 and book club video calls, written critiques of works-in-progress, tuckerisations, bespoke poems, and more. Additional goodies are courtesy of publishers including Allison & Busby, Dzanc Books, Entangled Publishing, Penguin Random House, and Tor Books as well as award-winning bestselling authors Chloe Gong, Jennifer Estep, Kiersten White, Martha Wells, Meg Cabot, Mimi Matthews, and Paul Tremblay. Donations begin at as little as US$5 and the goodies are available to donors as “thank you” gifts and perks depending on the donation amount. Fundraising will take place in tandem with the YouTube livestream series over the month of September.
“Violence against women is one of the most widespread and entrenched human rights violations in the world and The Pixel Project is delighted that so many acclaimed authors have stepped up to join us in raising much-needed funds and widespread support for this cause,” said Regina Yau, Founder and President of The Pixel Project. “Since its debut in 2014, over 250 authors have participated in the Read For Pixels campaign, collaborating with us to raise approximately US$124,000 for the cause and ignite online discussions about violence against women by fans and supporters. It is our hope that their support of the cause will inspire fans of their wonderful books and book lovers worldwide to not only donate generously, but also begin taking action to stop the violence in their communities wherever they are in the world.”
More information about Read For Pixels can be found at: http://bit.ly/Read4Pixels.
About The Pixel Project (www.thepixelproject.net)
The Pixel Project is a complete virtual, volunteer-led global 501(c)3 non-profit organisation whose mission is to raise awareness, funds and volunteer power for the cause to end violence against women at the intersection of social media, online communities new technologies, and popular culture/the Arts.