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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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Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2022
“When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.”
Every year on November 15 PEN International launches its Day of the Imprisoned Writer campaign, highlighting the cases of writers around the globe who are imprisoned or facing prosecution and calling for urgent international action to release and protect them. Free speech and a free press are treasured features of any society, and writers often serve as the link between truth and lies.
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November 2022 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of November for writers and readers
Movember (Men’s Health Month)
National Family Literacy Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month
Picture Book Month
- 1 – All Saint’s Day; Author’s Day; Day of the Dead; National Family Literacy Day
- 2 – All Soul’s Day; National Stress Awareness Day
- 3 – National Non-Fiction Day (U.K.); National Homemaker Day; National Sandwich Day; National Men Make Dinner Day
- 5 – National Redhead Day; World Tsunami Awareness Day; The Chief’s Birthday
- 6 – Book Lovers Day
- 8 – Young Readers Day; Margaret Mitchell’s Birthday
- 9 – Go to an Art Museum Day; International Day Against Fascism; World Adoption Day; World Freedom Day
- 10 – World Science Day for Peace and Development
- 11 – Veteran’s Day (U.S.); Singles Day
- 12 – National Happy Hour Day; World Pneumonia Day
- 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson’s Birthday; World Kindness Day
- 14 – World Diabetes Day
- 15 – I Love to Write Day; National Entrepreneur’s Day; National Philanthropy Day; Recycling Day (U.S.)
- 17 – International Student’s Day; National Homemade Bread Day; National Rural Health Day; World Philosophy Day
- 18 – High-Five a Librarian Day
- 19 – International Men’s Day
- 20 – Future Teachers of America Day; National Absurdity Day; Universal Children’s Day
- 21 – Voltaire’s Birthday; World Hello Day; World Television Day
- 23 – National Adoption Day
- 24 – Thanksgiving (U.S.)
- 26 – National Family Health History Day; Small Business Saturday (U.S.)
- 28 – National French Toast Day; Cyber Monday (U.S.)
- 29 – Louisa May Alcott’s Birthday
- 30 – Mark Twain’s Birthday; International Computer Security Day; National Personal Space Day
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