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.
AprilPratchett left school at seventeen, spent seven years as press officer for four nuclear power stations, and wrote forty-one Discworld novels that made him the best-selling author in Britain. He was dismissed as a comic fantasy writer for most of…
AprilFirst Contact Day marks the day in 2063 when a drunk who wanted to get rich flew a warp ship built from a nuclear missile, and the Vulcans noticed. The founding moment of the utopia belongs to a man far…
AprilShakespeare 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.
AprilNational 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 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 is April 12. Why uninterrupted reading has become hard, and why stopping to read for pleasure matters more now than ever.
AprilNational 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 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 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 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 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 is April 2. Why children's books are so hard to write, how young adult differs, and how one writer got his start.
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