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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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December 2025 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of December for writers and readers
Read a New Book Month
- December 1 – National Christmas Lights Day; World AIDS Day
- December 2 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- December 4 – Wildlife Conservation Day
- December 5 – Walt Disney’s Birthday; International Volunteer Day; World Soil Day
- December 6 – Ira Gershwin’s Birthday; Joyce Kilmer’s Birthday
- December 7 – International Civil Aviation Day; National Letter Writing Day
- December 9 – John Milton’s Birthday; Christmas Card Day; International Anti-Corruption Day; International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide; National Llama Day
- December 10 – Emily Dickinson’s Birthday; Dewey Decimal System Day; Human Rights Day; International Animal Rights Day; Nobel Prize Day
- December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Birthday; International Mountain Day; International UNICEF Day
- December 12 – International Day of Neutrality; International Universal Health Coverage Day
- December 13 – National Day of the Horse (U.S.)
- December 14 – Nostradamus’ Birthday
- December 14-22 – Hanukkah
- December 15 – Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof’s Birthday; Bill of Rights Day (U.S.)
- December 16 – Jane Austen’s Birthday; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birthday; National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
- December 17 – National Maple Syrup Day (U.S.); Wright Brothers Day (U.S.)
- December 18 – International Migrants Day; National Twin Day (U.S.)
- December 20 – International Human Solidarity Day
- December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; Look on the Bright Side Day; National Short Story Day; Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- December 22 – National Short Person Day
- December 23 – Robert Bly’s Birthday; Harriet Monroe’s Birthday; National Roots Day
- December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark’s Birthday; Jolabokaflod (Iceland)
- December 25 – Christmas Day
- December 26 – Boxing Day
- December 26 – January 1 – Kwanzaa
- December 27 – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
- December 28 – National Call a Friend Day; National Short Film Day
- December 30 – National Bacon Day
- December 31 – Henri Matisse’s Birthday; No Interruptions Day
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Happy Thanksgiving 2025!
“With each meal, be aware that the food we eat was once a life, and to honor it as such. Say thank you to the members of the plant and animal kingdoms who have given up their life so we can continue ours: the vegetable, berry, four legged, swimmer and winged nations. Pray for their continued abundance and protection.”
Molly Larkin, “A Native American Teaching on The Gift of Food”
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