SMBs Favorite Dates
- SMB staff
- Jul 1, 2024
- 3 min read
From Burns Night to Book Flood (January to December) there are countless reasons to celebrate words, reading, stories in all forms. Always adding, editing, and revising, this list is a work in progress In a way, it is a labor of love, finding more reasons to just keep reading.
I cannot lay claim to creatingthese lists. The original list itself is from the website On the Cobblestone Road. The rest I have added from a variety of sources. See Source list at the end.
SMB Favorite Literary Dates
January
January is National Book Blitz Month
Jan 2 - National Science Fiction Day
Jan 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Jan 9 - National Word Nerd Day
Jan 11 - Poetry at Work Day (Second Tuesday of January)
Jan 18 - National Thesaurus Day
Jan 25 - Burns Supper, aka Burns Night, in honor of the poet, Robert Burns’, birthday)
February
Feb 1 - Robinson Crusoe Day
Feb 14 - International Book-Giving Day
Feb 20 - Clean Out Your Bookcase Day
Feb 26 - Tell a Fairy Tale Day
March
March Small Press Month
Mar 4 - National Grammar Day
Mar 5-11 - Return Borrowed Books Week
Mar 14 - National Write Your Story Day
Mar 16 - National Freedom of Information Day
Mar 30 - National Pencil Day
April
Apr 17 - International Haiku Poetry Day
Apr 18 - National Columnist Day
Apr 23-29 - National Library Week
Apr 30 - Independent Bookstore Day (Last Saturday of April)
May
May 2 - International Harry Potter Day (Anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts)
May 2-8 - Children’s Book Week
May 4 - May the 4th Be With You, Star Wars Day
May 9 - Peter Pan Day
May 16 - National Biographer’s Day
May 25 - Towel Day (in honor of author Douglas Adams)
June
June 1 – World Outlander Day
Jun 10 - National Ball Point Pen Day
Jun 16 - Bloomsday (in honor of writer James Joyce)
Jun 19 - National Garfield the Cat Day
Jun 23 - National Typewriter Day
July
Read an Almanac Month
July 20 – World UFO Day
July 4 - Alice in Wonderland Day
July7 - World Chocolate Day
July 12 - Malala Day
July 14 - Bastille Day
July 21 - Ernest Hemingway Birthday (1899)
July 28 - Helen Beatrix Potter Birthday (1866)
July 30 - Paperback Book Day
August
Aug 2 - National Coloring Book Day
Aug 9 - National Book Lovers Day
Aug 18 - Bad Poetry Day
Aug 21 - Poet’s Day
Aug 30 - Frankenstein Day (author Mary Shelley‘s birthday)
Aug 31 - We Love Memoirs Day
September
Sept 6 - National Read a Book Day
Sept 6 – Literacy Day UNESCO
Sept 7 - Buy a Book Day
Sept 8 - International Literacy Day |
Sept 8 - National Ampersand Day
Sept 11 - Libraries Remember Day
Sept 13 - Roald Dahl Day
Sept 18 - Read an Ebook Day
Sept 18-24 - National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week
Sept 22 - Hobbit Day |
Sept 22 - Dear Diary Day
Sept 24 - National Punctuation Day
Sept 25 - National Comic Book Day
Sept 25-30 - Banned Books Week (Last week of September)
October
Oct 1 - National Poetry Day
Oct 2-8 - National Newspaper Week (Starts on the first Sunday of October)
Oct 2-8 - Mystery Series Week (First full week of October)
Oct 6 - Mad Hatter Day
Oct 11 - Myths and Legends Day
Oct 16 - Dictionary Day, Birth of Noah Webster in 1758 in Hartford, CT, whose first dictionary, The Professor and the Madman
Oct 16-22 - Friends of Libraries Week (Third week of October)
Oct 17 - Black Poetry Day
Oct 20 - National Day on Writing
Oct 28 - Frankenstein Friday (Last Friday in October)
Oct 31 - Books for Treats Day
November
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)National Family Literacy MonthNational Life Writing MonthPicture Book Month
Nov 3 - National Nonfiction Day (First Thursday of November)
Nov 6-12 - International Games Week | Children’s Book Week
Nov 8 - Young Readers Day (Second Tuesday of November)
Nov 14-18 - National Young Readers Week | World Nursery Rhyme Week | National Book Awards Week (Third week in November)
Nov 15 - I Love to Write Day
Nov 18 - High Five a Librarian Day
Nov 20-26 - National Bible Week
Nov 21-27 - Book Week Scotland
December
Dec 7 - Letter Writing Day
Dec 10 - Dewey Decimal System Day
Dec 21 - Crossword Puzzle Day | National Short Story Day | Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day (from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne)
Dec 24 - Jolabokaflod, Iceland. Read the book you received for Christmas, Jólabókaflóðið
Dec 25 - A’phabet Day or No L Day (Pun Day — “No L” = Noel… get it?)
last revised – 07/2024 by SMB staff
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