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April 28, 2025 · 5:49 PM

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

Famous May Birthdays

Other May 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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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

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February 8, 2025 · 7:34 PM

If you have no major projects scheduled in the near future, consider taking on this challenge from the Smithsonian Institution. They’re offering USD 1 million to anyone who can figure out what this ancient manuscript says. For more than a century, no one has been able to decipher the various symbols carved into these tablets from the Indus Valley civilization. The Bronze Age society flourished in the northwestern regions of Southern Asia from roughly 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE. As one of the world’s first large-scale urban cultures, they developed grid-based layouts, standardized weights and measures and elaborate drainage and even sewer systems; domesticated animals; and of course, created a logosyllabic writing system.

The prize announcement actually comes from M.K. Stalin, an official with the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Recent archeological examinations noted similarities between the Indus script and early writing from Tamil Nadu, despite the considerable geographic distance.

Researchers at Tamil Nadu’s Pondicherry University digitized 15,000 graffiti-marked pot shards from 140 archaeological sites in Tamil Nadu and compared them against 4,000 examples of the Indus Valley script. They found that nearly 60 percent of the signs matched and 90 percent shared “parallels”. Despite the intensive scrutiny, the Indus markings remain enigmatic.

Hence, the reward!

Personally, I’d take on the challenge, since I love a great mystery and harbor a fascination with ancient cultures. But sometimes I even have trouble figuring out my own dreams! See what you can do!

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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

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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

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November 29, 2024 · 6:41 PM

December 2024 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of December for writers and readers

Read a New Book Month

December 1 – National Christmas Lights Day; World AIDS Day
December 2 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 4 – Wildlife Conservation Day
December 5 – Walt Disney’s Birthday; International Volunteer Day; World Soil Day
December 6 – Ira Gershwin’s Birthday; Joyce Kilmer’s Birthday
December 7 – International Civil Aviation Day; National Letter Writing Day
December 9 – John Milton’s Birthday; Christmas Card Day; International Anti-Corruption Day; International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide; National Llama Day
December 10 – Emily Dickinson’s Birthday; Dewey Decimal System Day; Human Rights Day; International Animal Rights Day; Nobel Prize Day
December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Birthday; International Mountain Day; UNICEF Birthday
December 12 – International Day of Neutrality; International Universal Health Coverage Day
December 13 – National Day of the Horse (U.S.)
December 14 – Nostradamus’ Birthday
December 15 – Bill of Rights Day (U.S.)
December 16 – Jane Austen’s Birthday; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birthday; National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
December 17 – National Maple Syrup Day (U.S.); Wright Brothers Day (U.S.)
December 18 – International Migrants Day; National Twin Day (U.S.)
December 20 – International Human Solidarity Day
December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; Look on the Bright Side Day; National Short Story Day; Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
December 22 – National Short Person Day
December 23 – Robert Bly’s Birthday; Harriet Monroe’s Birthday; National Roots Day
December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark’s Birthday; Jolabokaflod (Iceland)
December 25 – Christmas Day; Hanukkah begins
December 26 – Boxing Day; Kwanzaa begins
December 27 – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
December 28 – National Call a Friend Day; National Short Film Day
December 30 – National Bacon Day
December 31 – Henri Matisse’s Birthday; No Interruptions Day

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Other December 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

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July 29, 2024 · 2:58 PM

August 2024 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of August for writers and readers

Family Fun Month

Happiness Happens Month

Romance Awareness Month

August 1 – Herman Melville’s Birthday; World Wide Web Day
August 1-7 – International Clown Week
August 2 – International Beer Day
August 4 – Percy Blythe Shelley’s Birthday; Psychic Day (U.S.)
August 4-10 – International Dog Assistance Week
August 5 – Blogger Day
August 5-11 – National Simplify Your Life Week (U.S.)
August 6 – Farmworker Appreciation Day
August 7 – Purple Heart Day (U.S.)
August 9 – Book Lover’s Day
August 10 – Vlogging Day; World Lion Day
August 12 – International Youth Day; Mountain Day; World Elephant Day
August 13 – International Lefthanders Day; Women’s and Family Day
August 14 – Danielle Steele’s Birthday; Love Your Bookshop Day; World Calligraphy Day; World Lizard Day
August 15 – Chant at the Moon Day
August 17 – International Homeless Animals Day; World Honey Bee Day
August 18 – National Bad Poetry Day; World Breast Cancer Research Day
August 19 – World Humanitarian Day; World Photo Day
August 22 – International Day Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief
August 23 – European Day for Remembrance of Victims of Stalinism and Nazism; International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
August 23-27 – World Water Week
August 24 – Paulo Coelho’s Birthday; International Strange Music Day
August 24-25 – International Bat Night
August 26 – International Dog Day
August 28 – Leo Tolstoy’s Birthday
August 30 – Mary Shelley’s Birthday; International Day for Victims of Enforced Disappearances
August 31 – International Day for People of African Descent; International Overdose Awareness Day; We Love Memoirs Day; World Distance Learning Day

Famous August Birthdays

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June 29, 2024 · 10:42 PM

July 2024 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of July for writers and readers

Good Care Month

National Anti-Boredom Month

National Blueberry Month

National Culinary Arts Month

National Lost Pet Prevention Month

National Picnic Month

Read an Almanac Month

Social Wellness Month

South Asian Heritage Month

Wild About Wildlife Month

July 1 – American Zoo Day; Canada Day; International Joke Day
July 1-7 – Clean Beaches Week
July 2 – Freedom from Fear of Speaking Day; World UFO Day
July 3 – Air Conditioning Appreciation Day; International Plastic Bag Free Day
July 4 – U.S. Independence Day
July 6 – International Kissing Day
July 7 – Global Forgiveness Day; Tell the Truth Day; World Chocolate Day
July 8 – International Paramedics Day
July 11 – E.B. White’s Birthday; International Essential Oils Day; World Population Day
July 14 – Bastille Day (France)
July 17 – World Day for International Justice; World Emoji Day
July 18 – Nelson Mandela International Day; World Listening Day
July 20 – International Chess Day; Space Exploration Day (U.S.)
July 21 – Ernest Hemingway’s Birthday
July 22 – World Brain Day
July 24 – International Self-Care Day
July 25 – National Wine & Cheese Day (U.S.)
July 29 – International Tiger Day
July 30 – International Friendship Day; Paperback Book Day; World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
July 31 – J.K. Rowling’s Birthday

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