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May 2026 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of May for writers and readers
American Cheese Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Month (U.S.)
Be Kind to Animals Month
Better Sleep Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Indian Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Labor History Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Military Appreciation Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Anxiety Month
National Meditation Month
National Pet Month
Short Story Month
- May 1 – Couple Appreciation Day; Free Comic Book Day (N. America); Global Love Day; May Day (Europe); Mother Goose Day; National Loyalty Day; National Space Day; Phone In Sick Day
- May 2 – International Harry Potter Day
- May 3 – World Laughter Day; World Press Freedom Day
- May 3-9 – Hurricane Preparedness Week (U.S.)
- May 4 – Greenery Day (Japan); National Day of Reason (U.S.)
- May 4-10 – Children’s Book Week; Red Cross Week
- May 5 – Nellie Bly’s Birthday; Cinco de Mayo (México); National Cartoonists Day; National Silence the Shame About Mental Illness Day; Poem on Your Pillow Day
- May 6 – Sigmund Freud’s Birthday
- May 6-12 – National Nurses Week (U.S.)
- May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Birthday; National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (U.S.)
- May 8 – Peter Benchley’s Birthday
- May 9 – J.M. Barrie’s Birthday; Europe Day; Peter Pan Day
- May 10 – Mother’s Day (U.S.)
- May 11 – Irving Berlin’s Birthday; Martha Graham’s Birthday; Salvador Dali’s Birthday
- May 12 – Limerick Day
- May 16 – Love a Tree Day
- May 18-24 – Dementia Awareness Week
- May 19 – Nora Ephron’s Birthday
- May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday; Sherlock Holmes Day; Take a Road Trip Day
- May 25 – Robert Ludlum’s Birthday; Memorial Day (U.S.)
- May 27 – Ian Fleming’s Birthday; Dashiell Hammett’s Birthday
- May 30 – National Creativity Day
- May 31 – Walt Whitman’s Birthday
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Earth Day 2026
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Happy Easter 2026
“Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the Winter Olympics.”
Marvin Olasky
April 2026 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of April for writers and readers
Arab-American Heritage Month
Child Abuse Awareness Month
Dog Appreciation Month
Earth Month
Genocide Awareness Month
Global Astronomy Month
International Guitar Month
Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month
National Alcohol Awareness Month (U.S.)
National Card & Letter Writing Month (U.S.)
National Fair Housing Month (U.S.)
National Humor Month (U.S.)
National Poetry Month (U.S.)
School Library Month (U.S.)
- April 1 – April Fool’s Day; International Fun at Work Day; National Greeting Card Day; Reading Is Funny Day
- April 1-9 – Passover
- April 2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s Birthday; International Children’s Book Day; Nature Day
- April 3 – Jane Goodall’s Birthday; Independent Artist Day
- April 4 – Maya Angelou’s Birthday; National School Librarian Day; National Love Our Children Day
- April 5 – Booker T. Washington’s Birthday; Easter
- April 7 –William Wordsworth’s Birthday
- April 8 – Buddha’s Birthday
- April 9 – Education & Sharing Day; National Unicorn Day
- April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer’s Birthday; Take Action for Libraries Day
- April 12 – Beverly Cleary’s Birthday; Tom Clancy’s Birthday; D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Day
- April 13 – Scrabble Day
- April 15 – Corrie Ten Boom’s Birthday; Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday; World Art Day
- April 16 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day
- April 17 – Thornton Wilder’s Birthday; International Haiku Poetry Day
- April 18 – Newspaper Columnists Day
- April 19-25 – National Library Week (U.S.)
- April 21 – Charlotte Bronte’s Birthday
- April 22 – Earth Day
- April 23 – William Shakespeare’s Birthday; World Book Day
- April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi’s Birthday; Independent Bookstore Day; National Day of Puppetry
- April 26 – John James Audubon’s Birthday
- April 27 – National Tell a Story Day
- April 28 – Harper Lee’s Birthday; Great Poetry Reading Day
- April 30 – Honesty Day; National Animal Advocacy Day
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March 2026 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of March for writers and readers
National Reading Month
Small Press Month
- March 1 – Fredric Chopin’s Birthday; International Hug a Librarian Day; Plan a Solo Vacation Day; World Compliment Day
- March 1-7 – National Ghostwriters Week; Read an E-Book Week; Returned Borrowed Books Week
- 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
- March 4 – National Grammar Day
- March 8 – International Women’s Day
- March 9 – Amerigo Vespucci’s Birthday; Get Over It Day
- March 10 – International Day of Awesomeness
- March 11 – Worship of Tools Day
- March 14 – Albert Einstein’s Birthday; Johann Strauss’ Birthday; National Write Your Story Day
- March 15 – Everything You Think Is Wrong Day; Ides of March
- March 15-21 – World Folktales and Fables Week
- March 16 – Everything You Do Is Right Day; Freedom of Information Day
- March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day
- March 19 – International Read to Me Day; Let’s Laugh Day
- March 20 – First Day of Spring (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 – Vincent van Gogh’s Birthday; I Am in Control Day; Pencil Day
- March 31 – Johann Sebastian Bach’s Birthday; René Descartes’ Birthday
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February 2026 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of February for writers and readers
African-American History Month (U.S.)
Library Lovers’ Month
- February 1 – Change Your Password Day; National Freedom Day (U.S.)
- February 1-7 – Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week
- February 2 – James Joyce’s Birthday
- February 3 – Norman Rockwell’s Birthday
- February 4 – World Read Aloud Day
- February 7 – Charles Dickens’ Birthday; Sinclair Lewis’ Birthday; Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Birthday; Take Your Child to the Library Day
- February 8 – Jules Verne’s Birthday
- February 9 – Read in the Bathtub Day
- February 12 – Judy Blume’s Birthday; Charles Darwin’s Birthday
- February 14 – International Book Giving Day; Library Lover’s Day; Valentine’s Day
- February 15 – Galileo Galilei’s Birthday
- February 16 – President’s Day (U.S.)
- February 18 – Toni Morrison’s Birthday
- February 19 – Amy Tan’s Birthday
- February 20 – Ansel Adams’ Birthday; World Day of Social Justice
- February 21 – Erma Bombeck’s Birthday; International Mother Language Day
- February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Birthday
- February 22-28 – Freedom to Read Week (Canada)
- 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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Happy New Year 2026!
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
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January 2026 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of January for writers and readers
National Braille Literacy Month
- January 1 – J.D. Salinger’s Birthday; Copyright Law Day; Global Family Day; New Year’s Day
- January 2 – Isaac Asimov’s Birthday; National Science Fiction Day
- January 3 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s Birthday
- January 6 – Carl Sandburg’s Birthday
- January 9 – Judith Krantz’s Birthday
- January 11-17 – Universal Letter Writing Week
- January 12 – Jack London’s Birthday
- January 13 – Poetry at Work Day
- January 16 – Book Publishers Day
- January 18 – A.A. Milne’s Birthday; Thesaurus Day
- January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday; Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (U.S.)
- January 23 – National Handwriting Day
- January 25 – Robert Burns’ Birthday
- January 27 – Family Literacy Day (Canada); Nazi Holocaust Remembrance Day
- January 28 – Library Shelfie Day
- January 31 – Zane Grey’s Birthday
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Merry Christmas 2025!
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