May 2025 Reader Challenge

May flowers—Who doesn’t enjoy strolling through nature and taking in the varied shapes and bright colors of the flowers God has created? Oh, wait. You have allergies? Gesundheit! (Or, as we say in the South, Bless your heart …) Hopefully we can all enjoy the beauty surrounding us this month, even if we do so with a tissue stuffed in our pocket.

Our 2025 May Reader Challenge BINGO card encourages readers to read books that feature this month’s themes and special days, including the following:

• National Photography Month
• National Hamburger Month/National Barbecue Month
• National Get Caught Reading Month
• National Bike Month
• National Responsible Animal Guardian Month/National Pet Month
• Small Business Month
• Local and Community History Month
• Older Americans Month
• National Moving Month
• National Walking Month
• Food Allergy Awareness Month
• National Foster Care Month
• Date Your Mate Month
• Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month
• National Military Appreciation Month
• National Space Day (May 2nd)/Star Wars Day (May 4th)/National Astronaut Day (May 5th)
• National Nurse’s Day (May 6th)
• National Tourism Day (May 7th)
• National Twilight Zone Day (May 11th)
• World Baking Day (May 18th)
• Sherlock Holmes Day (May 22nd)
• World Bee Day (May 20th)
• National Pizza Party Day (May 16th)

How to play:

• Please only count books read during May 2025.
• Please use only clean/Christian books for this contest.
• Make a BINGO either across, down, or diagonally using the official May 2025 Scrivenings Press BINGO card (posted below).
• Go to the May 2025 Reader Challenge entry page (https://scrivenings.link/readingchallenge) –Note: The April challenge will display at this link until midnight on the 3oth. The May challenge will be active beginning on May 1st.
• Enter using your email address.
• Answer the question by listing the books you read to make your BINGO. Please include the author’s name and which square each book checked off.

PLEASE NOTE: Only entries from the official entry form will be counted. Do not leave a comment on this post or on any social media posts about this contest–your entry won’t count. However, you may make comments about which books you found that meet the criteria in the BINGO card, if you want to help other players, but those comments will not constitute an entry into the drawing.

The winner will be selected by random drawing from all official entries. No purchase is necessary to enter, and the official entry form includes the contest rules. By entering this drawing, you agree to have your email address added to the Scrivenings Press email newsletter list. We hope you will enjoy receiving our newsletters, but you may unsubscribe at any time if you feel the content isn’t relevant to you.

The winner will receive his/her choice of an eBook (Kindle edition) of any title already published by Scrivenings Press. Please don’t request a copy of a not-yet-released title.

Click on the thumbnail to open the card as a full-sized printable PDF in a new tab.

(Note: You may also click on this link https://scrivenings.link/may25bingocard)