National Family Literacy Day
National Family Literacy Day is November 1. Why reading to a child at home is the most powerful gift a parent can give, and why it costs almost nothing.
Copyright Law Day
Copyright Law Day is January 1. What copyright actually does, the key thing most writers get wrong, and why it matters more than ever in the age of AI.
National Life Writing Month
National Life Writing Month is November. Life writing is more than memoir: journals, essays, letters, and family history. How to start without a book.
National Write Your Story Day
National Write Your Story Day is March 14. Why your story is worth recording, how to start when it feels impossible, and why the form can be anything.
National Tolkien Reading Day
National Tolkien Reading Day is March 25. The boxed set I saved for, the boring opening I almost quit, the eagles plot hole, and what Tolkien taught me.
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is April. Why writing a single poem, even badly, makes you a sharper prose writer. A non-poet’s case for trying the form.
World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day is March 21. An honest take from a prose writer who doesn’t love most poetry, on what poetry is for and what every writer can steal from it.
National Grammar Day
National Grammar Day is March 4. Why grammar matters, when breaking the rules is right, and how to keep your writing clean with editors and tools.
National Nonfiction Day
National Nonfiction Day is the first Thursday in November. Why nonfiction matters, what makes it good, and why the best reason to write it is not sales.
National Authors Day
National Authors Day is November 1. One discouraging teacher, a long climb through ghostwriting, and why becoming an author is something you claim.
Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week is late September. A personal story about being denied The Grapes of Wrath in high school, and why the fight over reading still matters.
World Book and Copyright Day
World Book and Copyright Day is April 23. It celebrates books and the copyright that protects them. What every author should know about the rights they own.
NaNoWriMo Is Gone. The November Writing Challenge Is Not
NaNoWriMo shut down, but the November writing challenge lives on. Why writing a book in a month works, and how to actually finish one this year.
Hobbit Day
Hobbit Day is September 22. What Tolkien’s hobbits teach about character and worldbuilding, an honest take from a writer who never read The Hobbit.
I Love to Write Day
I Love to Write Day is November 15. Where a love of writing comes from, and the truth that love gets you to the page but habit gets you to book one hundred.
Read Across America Day
Read Across America Day is March 2. A lifelong reader on how books protected him as a child, how taste changes over a life, and why a book matters to a kid.
World Read Aloud Day
World Read Aloud Day is the first Wednesday in February. From bedtime stories to critique groups, why reading aloud is the best editing tool a writer has.
National Haiku Poetry Day
National Haiku Poetry Day is April 17. An honest look at haiku from a writer who doesn’t get it, what its fans see, and the one lesson any writer can use.
National Letter Writing Day
National Letter Writing Day is December 7. An honest take on the lost art of letters, why email counts too, and the craft hidden in greeting cards.
Audiobook Appreciation Month
Audiobook Appreciation Month is June. How swapping useless screen time for audiobooks turns dead time into reading time, from a thousand-book collector.