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March 31, 2023 · 12:31 AM

April 2023 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of April for writers and readers

Child Abuse Awareness Month

D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read) Month

Defeat Diabetes Month

Dog Appreciation Month

Earth Month

Genocide Awareness Month

Global Astronomy Month

International Guitar Month

Mathematics & Statistics Awareness Month

National Alcohol Awareness Month

National Card & Letter Writing Month

National Humor Month

National Poetry Month

School Library Month

April 1 – April Fool’s Day; Education & Sharing Day; International Fun at Work Day; National Greeting Card Day; National Love Our Children Day; National Loyal Day; Reading Is Funny Day
April 2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s Birthday; International Children’s Book Day; National Reconciliation Day; Nature Day
April 3 – Jane Goodall’s Birthday; Independent Artist Day
April 4 – Maya Angelou’s Birthday; National School Librarian Day
April 5 – Booker T. Washington’s Birthday; Passover
April 7 – William Wordsworth’s Birthday
April 8 – Buddha’s Birthday
April 9 – Easter; National Unicorn Day
April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer’s Birthday
April 12 – Beverly Cleary’s Birthday; Tom Clancy’s Birthday
April 13 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day; Scrabble Day
April 15 – Corrie Ten Boom’s Birthday; Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday; Rubber Eraser Day; World Art Day
April 16 – National Librarian Day
April 17 – International Haiku Poetry Day; Thornton Wilder’s Birthday
April 18 – Newspaper Columnists Day
April 21 – Charlotte Bronte’s Birthday
April 22 – Earth Day; National Day of Puppetry
April 23-29 – National Library Week
April 23 – William Shakespeare’s Birthday; World Book and Copyright Day
April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi’s Birthday; National Library Workers Day
April 26 – John James Audubon’s Birthday; National Library Outreach Day (formerly National Bookmobile Day)
April 27 – National Tell a Story Day; Take Action for Libraries Day
April 28 – Great Poetry Reading Day; Harper Lee’s Birthday
April 29 – Independent Bookstore Day
April 30 – Day of the Child; Honesty Day; National Animal Advocacy Day

Famous April Birthdays

Other April Events

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March 17, 2023 · 8:16 AM

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 2023!

May you live as long as you want

And never want as long as you live.

St. Patrick

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February 26, 2023 · 6:48 PM

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

Famous March Birthdays

Other March Events

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February 14, 2023 · 6:30 AM

Happy Valentine’s Day 2023!

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

Aberjhani

Image: Jean Baptiste Robie, A Still life with Flowers and Raspberries

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February 10, 2023 · 8:55 PM

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.”

Burt Bacharach

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January 29, 2023 · 1:34 AM

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

Famous February Birthdays

Other February Events

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January 1, 2023 · 12:13 AM

Happy New Year 2023!

“We turn not older in years, but newer every day.”

Emily Dickinson

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December 31, 2022 · 12:20 AM

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

Famous January Birthdays

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December 25, 2022 · 12:34 AM

Merry Christmas 2022!

“It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come.”

Malcolm X

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November 30, 2022 · 7:08 AM

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

Famous December Birthdays

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Category Archives: News

April 2023 Literary Calendar

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Happy Valentine’s Day 2023!

In Memoriam – Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023

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Happy New Year 2023!

January 2023 Literary Calendar

Merry Christmas 2022!

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