Welcome, readers, to the inaugural #FFRFSummerReading Challenge!
A simple guide on how to enter
Complete the reading goals on four adjacent spaces — across, down, or diagonally — to win the challenge. Books may be used for only one space each. Send us your winning card via direct message on Instagram or Facebook, or tag us on Instagram or Facebook (Freedom From Religion Foundation or @ffrf_official) and use #FFRFSummerReading in a new post. (Note: accounts must be public to enter via hashtag/tag).
Entrants who submit their cards by Friday, September 18 will be entered in a raffle to win one of three FFRF merchandise bundles. We will reach out to our raffle winners within the following 5 – 10 business days.
The categories are as follows:
•Read a novel with a nonreligious main character
•Read a religious satire or dystopia
•Read a book outdoors
•Read a blasphemous/banned book
•Read an FFRF blog post
•Read a book about state/church history
•Read a book by a nonreligious author
•Listen to an audiobook
•Read a nonreligious memoir or biography
•Journal or post about your current read
•Check out (and read!) a library book
•Read a philosophy or self-help book
•Read a book by an FFRF Convention speaker, past or present
•Read a science-related book
•Read a (non)religious-themed graphic novel
•Make a playlist for your current read
More rules, details and disclaimers are available below.
Freedom From Religion Foundation Summer Reading Challenge
Complete Official Terms & Conditions
Competition Terms
Welcome to the first ever Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) summer reading challenge! Below are the terms and conditions for the competition, including specific eligibility and entry criteria. By participating in the competition, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions.
Competition Period
The FFRF summer reading challenge begins accepting entries at 12:01am Central Time (“CT”) on 06/12/2026 and ends 11:59pm CT on 09/18/2026 (“Competition Period”).
How to Participate
- Read books in the genre or category named in the boxes on the FFRF Summer Reading Challenge bingo card. Write in each box the book you read that completes that box. You may either write in this information digitally or print out the bingo card and write the books in by hand.
- When you have completed a bingo card (with four (4) adjacent boxes across, down, or diagonally), take a photo or screenshot of your completed bingo card. Participants can submit their completed bingo cards in one of the following two ways:
- (1) Direct message FFRF the photo of your completed bingo card on Facebook (@4ffrf) or Instagram (@ffrf_official).
- (2) Alternatively, make a new post on your Facebook or Instagram indicating completion of the challenge that includes a photo of your completed bingo card. In this post, participants must use the hashtag #FFRFSummerReading in the caption. Only public accounts may enter using the specified hashtag.
- All entries must be submitted by 09/18/2026 at 11:59pm CT to be eligible to win.
- After the competition period has elapsed, FFRF will randomly select three winners from the pool of valid entries. FFRF will directly message the winners through the Facebook or Instagram account that the winner used to enter the competition. Winners have 10 business days from the time they receive FFRF’s message to respond and accept their prize. If winners fail to accept their prize by responding to FFRF’s message within 10 business days, FFRF reserves the right to revoke the winner’s prize and will draw a different winner from the remaining entries.
- Participants are limited to one (1) entry per person. Participants are only eligible for the opportunity to win one (1) prize. Having multiple bingos on one card will not increase a participant’s chance of winning a prize.
Prizes
- After the competition period has elapsed, FFRF will select three prize winners randomly from the pool of valid entries.
- The first-place winner (the first participant selected) will receive a Happy Heathen mug and a bookmark set.
- The second-place winner (the second participant selected) will receive an Imagine No Religion tote and a bookmark set.
- The third-place winner (the third participant selected) will receive a bumper sticker set and a bookmark set.
Eligibility
- To enter, participants must:
- Be a resident of the 50 United States or Washington, D.C.;
- Be 18 years old or over at the time of entry;
- Not be an officer, director, or employee of Freedom From Religion Foundation;
- Agree with and comply with these Terms, and correctly enter the competition as set out above and in the competition details; and
- Meet any other specific eligibility criteria set out in the Terms and Conditions
- Freedom From Religion Foundation may request proof of your age at any point following the entry.
- Freedom From Religion Foundation reserves the right to disqualify participants at any time, if, in FFRF’s absolute discretion, the organization believes that you have contravened any of the Terms and Conditions of the competition. If FFRF disqualifies a participant, that participant must return any prize and FFRF may substitute another winner in your place.
Limitations of Liability
- Freedom From Religion Foundation assumes no responsibility for lost, late, incomplete, inaccurate, stolen, misdirected, or illegible entries; nor for any computer, telephone, electronic, or Internet hardware or software malfunctions, failures, or connections; nor service provider, Internet, Web site, user net accessibility or availability; nor for any technical error; nor for unauthorized human intervention, human error, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of entry or other information; nor for the failure to capture any such information.
- FFRF is not responsible for injury or damage to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating in this competition. If, for any reason, the competition is not capable of running as planned by reason of, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which FFRF deems, in its sole opinion, could corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this competition, FFRF reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the summer reading competition or any part thereof and select the winners from entries received prior to the action or as otherwise may be deemed fair by FFRF.
- In no event will FFRF, or any of their employees, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of participation in the competition, competition related prizes or activities, or access to and use of any internet sites accessed while participating in the competition.
