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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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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
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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.”
Image: Dave Granlund
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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.”
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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
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Happy Kwanzaa 2024!
“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”
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Chief Writing Wolf 