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March 29, 2025 · 7:57 PM

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

Famous April Birthdays

Other April Events

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February 26, 2025 · 9:00 AM

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

Famous March Birthdays

Other March Events

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February 14, 2025 · 12:06 AM

Happy Valentine’s Day 2025!

“I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. “
Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”

St. Valentine

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January 29, 2025 · 12:30 PM

February 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of February for writers and readers

African-American History Month (U.S.)

Library Lovers’ Month

February 1 – Abolition of Slavery Day; Change Your Password Day; National Freedom Day (U.S.)
February 2 – James Joyce’s Birthday
February 3 – Norman Rockwell’s Birthday; Take Your Child to the Library Day
February 4-10 – Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week
February 5 – World Read Aloud 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 – 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 17 – 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 23-March 1 – 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

Famous February Birthdays

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January 1, 2025 · 2:33 PM

In Memoriam – Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024

“We have a tendency to exalt ourselves and to dwell on the weaknesses and mistakes of others. I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. Political and religious leaders must attempt to provide a society within which these human attributes can be nurtured and enhanced.”

Jimmy Carter

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January 1, 2025 · 12:06 AM

Happy New Year 2025!

“On New Year’s Eve the whole world celebrates the fact that a date changes. Let us celebrate the dates on which we change the world.”

Akilnathan Logeswaran

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December 28, 2024 · 2:05 PM

January 2025 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 12 – Jack London’s Birthday
January 12-18 – Universal Letter Writing Week
January 14 – Poetry at Work Day
January 16 – Book Publisher’s Day
January 18 – A.A. Milne’s Birthday; Thesaurus Day
January 19 – Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday
January 20 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Day (U.S.)
January 22 – Library Shelfie Day
January 23 – National Handwriting Day
January 25 – Robert Burns’ Birthday
January 27 – Family Literacy Day (Canada); Nazi Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 31 – Zane Grey’s Birthday