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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 2023!
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March 2023 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of March for writers and readers
National Reading Month
Small Press Month
- March 1 – Fredric Chopin’s Birthday; Plan a Solo Vacation Day; World Compliment Day
- March 2 – Theodore Seuss Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) Birthday; Read Across America Day
- March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell’s Birthday; I Want You to be Happy Day; If Pets Had Thumbs Day; World Book Day (Ireland and UK)
- March 4 – National Grammar Day
- March 6-12 – Read an E-Book Week; Return Borrowed Books Week
- March 7 – National Cereal Day
- March 8 – Be Nasty Day
- March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci’s Birthday; Get Over It Day; Popcorn Lover’s Day
- March 10 – Everything You Do Is Right Day; International Day of Awesomeness
- March 11 – Worship of Tools Day
- March 14 – Albert Einstein’s Birthday; Johann Strauss’ Birthday; Learn About Butterflies Day
- March 15 – Everything You Think Is Wrong Day; Ides of March
- March 16 – Everything You Do Is Right Day; Freedom of Information Day
- March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
- March 19 – Let’s Laugh Day
- March 20 – First Day of Spring(Northern Hemisphere); First Day of Fall (Southern Hemisphere);(Northern Hemisphere); First Day of Fall (Southern Hemisphere);’.; Extraterrestrial Abductions Day; International Day of Happiness; World Storytelling Day
- March 21 – World Poetry Day
- March 22 – As Young as You Feel Day
- March 24 – Harry Houdini’s Birthday
- March 26 – Robert Frost’s Birthday; Tennessee Williams’ Birthday
- March 29 – Smoke and Mirrors Day
- March 30 – I Am in Control Day; Pencil Day; Vincent van Gogh’s Birthday
- March 31 – Johann Sebastian Bach’s Birthday; René Descartes’ Birthday
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Happy Valentine’s Day 2023!
“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”
Image: Jean Baptiste Robie, A Still life with Flowers and Raspberries
In Memoriam – Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023
“It wasn’t about writing songs to dance to. It was about recording music that felt right. I wanted to make it palatable. There are no guarantees.”
February 2023 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of February for writers and readers
African-American History Month
Creative Romance Month
International Friendship Month
Library Lovers’ Month
- February 1 – Abolition of Slavery Day; Change Your Password Day; Decorating with Candy Day; National Dark Chocolate Day; National Freedom Day (U.S.); Spunky Old Broads Day; World Read Aloud Day
- February 2 – Ayn Rand’s birthday; James Joyce’s birthday
- February 2-8 – Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week
- February 3 – Norman Rockwell’s birthday
- February 5 – Take Your Child to the Library Day
- February 7 – Charles Dickens’s birthday; Sinclair Lewis’ birthday; Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday
- February 8 – Jules Verne’s birthday
- February 9 – Read in the Bathtub Day
- February 12 – Charles Darwin’s birthday; Judy Blume’s birthday
- February 14 – International Book Giving Day; Library Lover’s Day; Valentine’s Day
- February 15 – Galileo Galilei’s birthday
- February 18 – Toni Morrison’s birthday
- February 19 – Amy Tan’s birthday
- February 20 – Ansel Adams’ birthday; President’s Day (U.S.)
- February 20-26 – Freedom to Read Week (Canada)
- February 21 – Erma Bombeck’s birthday
- February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay’s birthday; Ash Wednesday
- February 25 – Pierre Renoir’s birthday
- February 26 – Tell a Fairy Tale Day
- February 27 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s birthday; John Steinbeck’s birthday
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January 2023 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of January for writers and readers
National Braille Literacy Month
- January 1 – New Year’s Day; Copyright Law Day; J.D. Salinger’s Birthday
- January 2 – National Science Fiction Day; Isaac Asimov’s Birthday
- January 3 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday
- January 6 – Carl Sandburg’s Birthday
- January 9 – Judith Krantz’s Birthday
- January 9-15 – Universal Letter Writing Week
- January 11 – Poetry at Work Day
- January 12 – Jack London’s Birthday
- January 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
- January 18 – Thesaurus Day; A.A. Milne’s Birthday
- January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday
- January 23 – National Handwriting Day
- January 25 –Robert Burns’ Birthday
- January 26 – Library Shelfie Day
- January 27 – Family Literacy Day in Canada
- January 31 – Zane Grey’s Birthday
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Merry Christmas 2022!
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December 2022 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of December for writers and readers
Read a New Book Month (also September)
- December 1 – World AIDS Day
- December 7 – Letter Writing Day
- December 9 – John Milton’s Birthday
- December 10 – Dewey Decimal System Day; Emily Dickinson’s Birthday
- December 14 – Nostradamus’ Birthday
- December 16 – Jane Austen’s Birthday
- December 18 – Hanukah
- December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; National Short Story Day; Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere); Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
- December 24 – Christmas Eve; Jolabokaflod; Stephenie Meyer’s Birthday
- December 25 – Christmas Day
- December 26 – Boxing Day (Canada, U.K.); Kwanzaa
- December 30 – Rudyard Kipling’s Birthday
- December 31 – New Year’s Eve
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Happy Thanksgiving 2022!
“Gratitude can transform common days into Thanksgiving, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
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