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Happy Mother’s Day 2025!
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May 2025 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; Global Love Day; May Day; Mother Goose Day; National Loyalty Day; Phone In Sick Day
- May 2 – International Harry Potter Day
- May 3 – National Space Day; World Press Freedom Day
- May 4 – Free Comic Book Day (N. America); Greenery Day (Japan); National Day of Reason (U.S.)
- May 4-10 – Red Cross Week
- May 5 – Nellie Bly’s Birthday; Cinco de Mayo (México); National Cartoonists Day; National Silence the Shame About Mental Illness) Day; World Laughter Day
- May 5-11 – Hurricane Preparedness Week (U.S.); National Pet Week (U.S.)
- May 6 – Sigmund Freud’s Birthday
- May 6-12 – Children’s Book Week; National Nurses Week (U.S.)
- May 7 – Tchaikovsky’s Birthday; Poem on Your Pillow Day
- May 8 – Peter Benchley’s Birthday
- May 9 – J.M. Barrie’s Birthday; Europe Day; National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day (U.S.); Peter Pan Day
- May 11 – Irving Berlin’s Birthday; Martha Graham’s Birthday; Salvador Dali’s Birthday; Mother’s Day (U.S.)
- May 12 – Limerick Day
- May 13-19 – Dementia Awareness Week (U.K.)
- May 16 – Love a Tree Day
- May 19 – Nora Ephron’s Birthday
- May 20 – Flower Day
- May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Birthday; Sherlock Holmes Day
- May 24 – Take a Road Trip Day
- May 25 – Robert Ludlum’s Birthday
- May 26 – Memorial Day (U.S.)
- May 27 – Dashiell Hammett’s Birthday; Ian Fleming’s Birthday
- May 30 – National Creativity Day
- May 31 – Walt Whitman’s Birthday
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Earth Day 2025
“Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”
In Memoriam – Mario Vargas Llosa, 1936-2025
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Antarctica tells Trump what to do with his tariffs
From Munguin’s New Republic, the truth must be spoken!
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Rapid Response Fund
As National Library Week 2025 comes to an end here in the U.S., I want to highlight Every Library’s “Rapid Response Fund”, a political action group for libraries. As I’ve noted before, censorship is in full swing in a country that enshrined the concept of free speech into its constitution. This could only happen with a right-wing autocrat like Donald Trump in the White House. As writers and bloggers, we can’t afford to let this madness continue. Please consider donating and as always – keep writing and keep fighting!
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April 2025 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 2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s Birthday; International Children’s Book Day; National Truth & 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; National Love Our Children Day
- April 6-12 – National Library Week (U.S.)
- April 7 – William Wordsworth’s Birthday
- April 8 – Buddha’s Birthday; National Library Workers Day (U.S.)
- April 9 – Education & Sharing Day; National Unicorn Day; National Library Outreach Day (U.S.)
- 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; Passover
- April 13 – Scrabble Day
- April 15 – Corrie Ten Boom’s Birthday; Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday; World Art Day
- April 16 – National Librarian Day
- April 17 – Thornton Wilder’s Birthday; Celebrate Teen Literature Day; International Haiku Poetry Day
- April 18 – Newspaper Columnists Day
- April 20 – Easter
- 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
- April 26 – John James Audubon’s Birthday; Independent Bookstore Day; National Day of Puppetry
- 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 2025 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of March for writers and readers
National March into Literacy Month
National Reading Month
Small Press Month
- March 1-7 – National Ghostwriters Week
- March 1 – Fredric Chopin’s Birthday; International Hug a Librarian Day; Plan a Solo Vacation Day; World Compliment Day
- March 2-8 – 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 16-22 – 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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Happy Valentine’s Day 2025!
“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. “
Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”
Image: Adelina ZW, Pixabay
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Chief Writing Wolf 