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Memorial Day 2024
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Happy Mother’s Day 2024!
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May 2024 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; 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
- May 12 – Limerick Day; Mother’s Day (U.S.)
- 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 25 – Robert Ludlum’s Birthday
- May 27 – Dashiell Hammett’s Birthday; Ian Fleming’s Birthday; Memorial Day (U.S.)
- May 30 – National Creativity Day
- May 31 – Walt Whitman’s Birthday
Earth Day 2024
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.”
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Happy Easter 2024
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.”
April 2024 Literary Calendar
Events in the month of April for writers and readers
Arab-American Heritage Month
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
- April 7 – William Wordsworth’s Birthday
- April 7-13 – National Library Week (U.S.)
- April 8 – Buddha’s Birthday
- April 9 – National Library Workers Day (U.S.); National Unicorn Day
- April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer’s Birthday; National Library Outreach Day (U.S.)
- April 11 – Take Action for Libraries Day
- April 12 – Beverly Cleary’s Birthday; Tom Clancy’s Birthday
- April 13 – Scrabble Day
- April 15 – Corrie Ten Boom’s Birthday; Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday; Rubber Eraser Day; Sign Language Day (U.S.); World Art Day
- April 16 – National Librarian Day
- April 17 – Thornton Wilder’s Birthday; International Haiku Poetry Day
- April 18 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day; Newspaper Columnists Day
- April 21 – Charlotte Bronte’s Birthday
- April 22 – Earth Day; Passover
- April 23 – William Shakespeare’s Birthday; World Book and Copyright Day
- April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi’s Birthday
- April 26 – John James Audubon’s Birthday
- April 27 – Independent Bookstore Day; National Day of Puppetry; 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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Charles Ray – Lifetime Achievement Award
Congratulations to fellow writer and blogger Charles Ray!
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March 2024 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 – Theodore Seuss Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) Birthday; Read Across America Day
- March 3-9 – Read an E-Book Week; Returned Borrowed Books Week
- 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 7 – National Cereal 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 – Everything You Do Is Right Day; Freedom of Information Day
- March 17-23 – World Folktales and Fables Week
- 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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February 2024 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; Decorating with Candy Day; National Dark Chocolate Day; National Freedom Day (U.S.); Spunky Old Broads Day; World Read Aloud Day
- 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 7 – Charles Dickens’s Birthday; Sinclair Lewis’ Birthday; Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Birthday; World Read Aloud Day
- 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 18 – Toni Morrison’s Birthday
- February 19 – Amy Tan’s Birthday
- February 20 – Ansel Adams’ Birthday; President’s Day (U.S.); World Day of Social Justice
- February 20-26 – Freedom to Read Week (Canada)
- February 21 – Erma Bombeck’s Birthday; International Mother Language Day
- February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Birthday
- 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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