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March 29, 2026 · 3:33 PM

April 2026 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 1-9 – Passover
April 2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s Birthday; International Children’s Book Day; Nature Day
April 3 – Jane Goodall’s Birthday; Independent Artist Day
April 4 – Maya Angelou’s Birthday; National School Librarian Day; National Love Our Children Day
April 5 – Booker T. Washington’s Birthday; Easter
April 7 –William Wordsworth’s Birthday
April 8 – Buddha’s Birthday
April 9 – Education & Sharing Day; National Unicorn Day
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
April 13 – Scrabble Day
April 15 – Corrie Ten Boom’s Birthday; Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday; World Art Day
April 16 – Celebrate Teen Literature Day
April 17 – Thornton Wilder’s Birthday; International Haiku Poetry Day
April 18 – Newspaper Columnists Day
April 19-25 – National Library Week (U.S.)
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; Independent Bookstore Day; National Day of Puppetry
April 26 – John James Audubon’s Birthday
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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January 29, 2026 · 12:18 PM

February 2026 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of February for writers and readers

African-American History Month (U.S.)

Library Lovers’ Month

February 1 – Change Your Password Day; National Freedom Day (U.S.)
February 1-7 – Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week
February 2 – James Joyce’s Birthday
February 3 – Norman Rockwell’s Birthday
February 4 – World Read Aloud Day
February 7 – Charles Dickens’ Birthday; Sinclair Lewis’ Birthday; Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Birthday; Take Your Child to the Library 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 16 – 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 22-28 – 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

Other Notable February Events

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September 27, 2025 · 8:46 AM

October 2025 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of October for writers and readers

National Book Month

National Reading Group Month

October 1 – International Coffee Day; International Day of Older Persons; International Music Day
October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday; International Day of Non-Violence; National Poetry Day (Ireland and U.K.) ; World Smile Day
October 4 – World Animal Day
October 4-10 – World Space Week
October 5 – Robert Hutchings Goddard’s Birthday; World Teachers Day
October 5-11 – Banned Books Week
October 6 – Thor Heyerdahl’s Birthday; Mad Hatter Day
October 7 – Desmond Tutu’s Birthday
October 10 – World Against the Death Penalty; World Homeless Day; World Mental Health Day
October 11 – Myth and Legends Day
October 12 – World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
October 13 – International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
October 14 – E.E. Cummings’ Birthday; Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 15 – Mario Puzo’s Birthday
October 15 – International Day of Rural Women
October 16 – Noah Webster’s Birthday; Dictionary Day; World Food Day
October 17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Day; World Trauma Day
October 19-25 – National Friends of Libraries Week
October 20 – National Day on Writing
October 21 – Alfred Nobel’s Birthday
October 23 – Michael Crichton’s Birthday
October 25 – Anne Tyler’s Birthday; International Artist Day; World Opera Day
October 27 – Dylan Thomas’ Birthday
October 28 – International Animation Day
October 29 – First Internet Message (1969); World Stroke Day
October 30 – Ezra Pound’s Birthday
October 31 – John Keats’ Birthday; Halloween

Other Famous October Birthdays

Other October Events

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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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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

Other February Events

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September 29, 2024 · 6:02 AM

October 2024 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of October for writers and readers

National Book Month

National Reading Group Month

October 1 – International Coffee Day; International Day of Older Persons; International Music Day
October 2 – Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday; International Day of Non-Violence
October 3 – National Poetry Day (U.K.)
October 4 – World Animal Day; World Smile Day
October 4-10 – World Space Week
October 5 – Robert Hutchings Goddard’s Birthday; World Teachers Day
October 6 – Thor Heyerdahl’s Birthday; Mad Hatter Day
October 7 – Desmond Tutu’s Birthday
October 10 – World Against the Death Penalty; World Homeless Day; World Mental Health Day
October 11 – Myth and Legends Day
October 12 – World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
October 13 – International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
October 14 – E.E. Cummings’ Birthday; Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 15 – Mario Puzo’s Birthday
October 15 – International Day of Rural Women
October 16 – Noah Webster’s Birthday; Dictionary Day; World Food Day
October 17 – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Day; World Trauma Day
October 20 – National Day on Writing
October 20-26 – National Friends of Libraries Week
October 21 – Alfred Nobel’s Birthday
October 23 – Michael Crichton’s Birthday
October 25 – Anne Tyler’s Birthday; International Artist Day; World Opera Day
October 27 – Dylan Thomas’ Birthday
October 28 – International Animation Day
October 29 – First Internet Message (1969); World Stroke Day
October 30 – Ezra Pound’s Birthday
October 31 – John Keats’ Birthday

Famous October Birthdays

Other October Events

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September 22, 2024 · 12:10 AM

Banned Books Week 2024 – September 22-28

“They’re banning books in their schools. We are banishing hunger in ours!”

Gov. Tim Walz

Today is the start of “Banned Books Week 2024” – the annual fight against literary censorship. Writers, media types and all who support us know full well we’ll never win this war. But we can win battles across the national spectrum. The fight has become more intense in recent years, as social conservatives march into libraries and demand certain items be removed because they’re offended. Remember, there will always be people who think they know what’s best for everyone else. As writers and readers, we simply can’t let that happen.

Keep writing and keep fighting!

Banned Books 2024

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January 29, 2023 · 1:34 AM

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

Famous February Birthdays

Other February Events

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September 30, 2022 · 12:30 AM

October 2022 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of October for writers and readers

National Book Month
National Reading Group Month
October 1 – International Coffee Day
October 2 – Name Your Car Day
October 3 – Techies Day
October 7 – World Smile Day
October 6 – Mad Hatter Day
October 9 – Curious Events Day
October 10 – Indigenous People’s Day
October 11 – Myth and Legends Day; National Coming Out Day
October 12 – Cookbook Launch Day; Moment of Frustration Day
October 13 – International Skeptic’s Day
October 15 – Mario Puzo’s Birthday
October 16 – Noah Webster’s Birthday; Oscar Wilde’s Birthday; Dictionary Day
October 16-22 – National Friends of Libraries Week
October 19 – Evaluate Your Life Day
October 20 – National Day on Writing
October 21 – Alfred Nobel’s Birthday; Babbling Day
October 22 – Smart Is Cool Day
October 25 – Pablo Picasso’s Birthday; Howl at the Moon Night
October 27 – National Tell a Story Day (Scotland; U.K.)
October 29 – Hermit Day
October 31 – Increase Your Psychic Powers Day

Famous October Birthdays

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April 30, 2022 · 7:45 PM

Best Quotes of the Week – April 30, 2022

“When billionaires talk about freedom, watch your wallets. Behind Elon Musk’s blather about free markets, free speech, and free choice is his goal to be free from accountability.”

Robert Reich, regarding Elon Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter

Reich went on to say: “The “free market” increasingly reflects the demands of big money. Unfriendly takeovers, such as Musk threatens to mount at Twitter, weren’t part of the “free market” until the late 1970s and early 1980s. Before then, laws and regulations constrained them. Then came corporate raiders like Carl Icahn and Michael Milken. Their MO was to find corporations whose assets were worth more than their stock value, borrow against them, acquire enough shares to force them to cut costs (such as laying off workers, abandoning their communities, busting unions, and taking on crushing debt), and cash in. But the raiders’ antics often imposed huge social costs. They pushed America from stakeholder capitalism (where workers and communities had a say in what corporations did) to shareholder capitalism (where the sole corporate goal is to maximize shareholder value). Inequality skyrocketed, insecurity soared, vast swaths of America were abandoned, and millions of good jobs vanished.”

“In the end, if Jimmy and Susie are curious about any of the above, they can do what everyone else does – get a room at the Motel Six and grab the Gideons.”

Chaz Stevens, a Florida resident who has asked the state to remove the Christian Bible from schools and public libraries because its content is inappropriate for children

He took issue with the many Biblical references to rape, bestiality, cannibalism and infanticide and proceeded to question whether the Bible is age-appropriate, pointing to its “casual” references to murder, adultery, sexual immorality, and fornication. “Do we really want to teach our youth about drunken orgies?”

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