AprilShakespeare Day: He Only Worked for Me Live
Shakespeare wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets and shaped English more than anyone, and he never worked for me on the page, only live on stage. A look at why the plays demand performance to come alive.
Tag: April
Writing and book holidays observed in April, as spring blooms. Every literary celebration, author day, and reading observance falling in April, each marked with an essay.
April
AprilNational Library Week: Where Readers and Writers Are Made
National Library Week has celebrated libraries and librarians since 1958. I have a soft spot for it, because libraries are where both readers and writers are quietly made. A look at what we owe them.
AprilEaster
Easter is a moveable spring Sunday. A childhood story about a pet rabbit, a hard rural lesson, and why the unsentimental truth makes the best writing.
AprilDrop Everything and Read Day
Drop Everything and Read Day is April 12. Why uninterrupted reading has become hard, and why stopping to read for pleasure matters more now than ever.
AprilNational Librarian Day
National Librarian Day is April 16. How a librarian's small kindness opened a child's world, and why librarians matter more than most people realize.
AprilHate Week
Hate Week comes from Orwell's 1984. Why the novel stays relevant decade after decade, and what writers can learn from fiction that became a permanent warning.
AprilWorld 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.
AprilNational 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.
AprilNational 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.
AprilInternational Children’s Book Day
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.
AprilIndependent Bookstore Day
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.