World Read Aloud Day
June 14, 2026
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.
Series: US Holidays (Page 9)
US HolidaysNational Haiku Poetry Day
June 14, 2026
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.
US HolidaysNational Letter Writing Day
June 14, 2026
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.
US HolidaysAudiobook Appreciation Month
June 14, 2026
Audiobook Appreciation Month is June. How swapping useless screen time for audiobooks turns dead time into reading time, from a thousand-book collector.
US HolidaysDictionary Day
June 14, 2026
Dictionary Day is October 16. Why a misunderstood word corrupts everything you read, the value of looking words up, and what Weird Al's Word Crimes gets right.
US HolidaysInternational Children’s Book Day
June 14, 2026
International Children's Book Day is April 2. Why children's books are so hard to write, how young adult differs, and how one writer got his start.
US HolidaysIndependent Bookstore Day
June 14, 2026
Independent Bookstore Day is the last Saturday in April. Why indie and used bookstores matter, why they are fading, and why one writer still seeks them out.
US HolidaysRead an E-Book Week
June 14, 2026
Read an E-Book Week is the first full week of March. The honest case for e-books, why you don't really own them, and how they compare to print you keep.
US Holidays36 Ways to Show Heartfelt Author Appreciation
February 8, 2026
Discover over 36 ways to show author appreciation, from engaging on social media to creative testimonials. Support the storytellers who enrich our lives.
US HolidaysInternational Chess Day: The Game That Was Supposed to Die
August 6, 2026
International Chess Day is July 20. In 1997 a machine beat the world champion and everyone said chess was finished. Chess is now bigger than it has ever been, and writers are being told the same thing about AI right…
US HolidaysRedneck Christmas: What Fans Call the Daytona 500
August 31, 2026
The Daytona 500 has an official name, a sanctioning body and a trophy. It also has names nobody printed on anything, and those are the ones worth listening to.
US HolidaysVJ Day: The Record That Only Exists Because Somebody Wrote It Down
August 31, 2026
The surrender took about twenty minutes aboard the USS Missouri. My grandfather had been a prisoner for three years and four months, and the record of it survives only because he sat down afterward and rebuilt it from memory.