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Costa Book Awards 2020 entries M 1 open; Pride Month M T 2 Bank Holiday (Ireland) 1 1 T New Year’s Day; Bank Holiday; April Fool’s Day; Stress Awareness Women’s Prize for Fiction winner W 1 Veganuary; Dry January 1 Month; National Pet Month 3 announced 1 2 2 W International Children’s Book Day; National Poetry Day; Black History Bookshop Social: Kett’s Books; International Day of People Bank Holiday (Scotland) International Dublin Literary Award (Norfolk); 4-7 June CrimeFest Month; International Day of Older T 2 2 shortlist announced 4 2 3 1 Persons 3 with Disabilities T 3-12 Ledbury Poetry Festival; International Workers’ Day World Environment Day 2-11 Cheltenham Literature Festival; F 3 3 1 5 3 3-19 Buxton International Festival 4 2 International Day of Non-Violence 4 F S 4 World Braille Day 1 LGBT History Month 4 2 International Harry Potter Day 6 4 1 5 3 Bookshop Day 5 Small Business Saturday S James Joyce’s birthday; 2-6 Spring World Animal Day; Grandparents Day; St. David’s Day; Women’s History Palm Sunday National Read a Book Day World Vegan Day S 5 2 Fair (Birmingham); BAFTA Film Awards 1 Month 5 3 7 5 2 6 4 World Dyslexia Awareness Day 1 6 S Costa Book Awards category winners Summer Bank Holiday (Scotland) M 6 announced 3 3-9 Children’s Mental Health Week 2 6 4 8 8-14 Carers Week 6 3 7 5 2 7 M Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist T 7 4 3 announced; World Wildlife Day 7 5 9 7 4 8 6 3 8 T 4-8 StAnza: Scotland’s Poetry Festival; International Dublin Literary Award Bookshop Social: Atkinson Pryce 4-5 Christian Resources Exhibition winner announced (Scotland) W 8 5 4 (Coventry) 8 6 10 8 5 9 7 4 9 W Bookshop Social: Button & Bear Bookshop Social: Little Ripon World Book Day; 5-8 Aldeburgh Literary 11-14 Borders Book Festival 10-14 Chiswick Book Festival Bookshop (Shrewsbury); Harry Potter Bookshop (Yorkshire) Guy Fawkes Day Nobel Prize Day T 9 6 Book Night; Time to Talk Day 5 Festival; Blue Peter Book Awards 9 7 11 9 6 10 8 5 10 T Good Friday; Bank Holiday; Siblings 10-20 Ways With Words Festival of Charles Dickens’ birthday 6-15 Words by the Water Festival Early May Bank Holiday Euro 2020 begins 11-20 Jane Austen Festival F 10 7 6 (Lake District) 10 Day 8 12 10 Words and Ideas 7 11 9 6 11 F S 11 8 7 11 9 9-23 Feminist Book Fortnight 13 Queen’s Birthday 11 8 12 10 World Mental Health Day 7 12 S 13-14 BA Conference & Gardners Trade Show 12-15 Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair; Euro 2020 final (Wembley Stadium, Oscars International Women’s Day Easter Sunday; Charlotte Brontë’s (Leicestershire); 13-14 Remainder & Promotional 12-14 Top Drawer (London) birthday London) Book Lovers’ Day International Day of the Girl Child S 12 9 8 12 10 14 12 9 13 Book Fair (London); Roald Dahl Day 11 8 13 S 9-13 Academic Book Week; Commonwealth Day; 9-15 London Easter Monday; Bank Holiday Bank Holiday (Nothern Ireland) M 13 10 9 Book & Screen Week 13 11 15 13 10 14 12 9 14 M Introduction to Bookselling Course 15-16 Christian Retailers & Suppliers T 14 11 (London) 10 10-12 The London Book Fair 14 12 16 14 11 15 Retreat 13 10 15 T CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards winner 14-18 Frankfurt Book Fair Remembrance Day Jane Austen’s birthday W 15 12 11 15 13 17 announced 15 12 16 14 11 16 W 14-15 Academic Book Trade Booksellers Network Summer Party Conference & Awards (Warwickshire); (London); 16-19 Latitude Festival T 16 13 12 16 14 14-17 Book World Prague 18 16 13 17 15 12 17 T Valentine’s Day; International Book F 17 14 Giving Day 13 13-15 King’s Lynn Literature Festival 17 17-19 FCBG Conference 15 15-24 The Bath Festival 19 17 14 18 16 Oscar Wilde’s birthday 13 Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday 18 F 20-27 Independent Bookshop Week; 15-31 Edinburgh International Winnie the Pooh Day Record Store Day 17-24 Irish Book Week S 18 15 14 18 16 20 Summer solstice; World Refugee Day 18 15 Book Festival 19 17 14 19 S 19-20 Remainder & Promotional Book Father’s Day; International Yoga Day S 19 Fair (London); World Religion Day 16 15 19 17 21 19 16 20 18 15 20 S M 20 Martin Luther King Jr. Day 17 Random Acts of Kindness Day 16 20 18 18-24 Mental Health Awareness Week 22 Windrush Day 20 17 21 Stephen King’s birthday 19 16 16-22 Book Week Scotland 21 Winter solstice M T 21 21-24 ABA Winter Institute (Baltimore) 18 17 St. Patrick’s Day 21 19 23 21 18 22 Autumn equinox 20 17 22 T Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist Bookshop Social: Wallingford W 22 19 18 22 announced; Earth Day 20 Bookshop (Oxfordshire) 24 22 19 23 21 18 23 W Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway St. George’s Day; Shakespeare Day; World Book World Day for Cultural Diversity Booksellers Association Founded Night; 23-26 Chipping Norton Literary Festival; Last day for Batch 23-26 Theakston Old Peculier Crime ceremony; CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway for Dialogue and Development; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday International Men’s Day (1895) Children’s Book Awards shortlist 23-2 (May) Wyl Geiriau Wrecsam/Wrexham authorisations Writing Festival Christmas Eve T 23 20 Children’s Book Awards longlist announced 19 announced 23 Carnival of Words 21 21-31 Hay Festival 25 23 20 24 22 19 24 T Irish Book Trade Conference (Dublin); Spring equinox; World Storytelling Day; 24-26 Books by the Beach Festival Bring Your Dog To Work Day 25-4 (October) Wigtown Book Festival International Children’s Day Christmas Day; Bank Holiday F 24 21 20 20-22 Alderney Literary Festival 24 22 26 24 21 25 23 20 25 F 24-1 (November) Petworth Festival Burns Night; Chinese New Year World Poetry Day Independent Bookstore Day (US) London Pride T.S. Eliot’s birthday; 26-4 (October) Boxing Day S 25 (Year of the Rat) 22 21 25 23 27 25 22 26 Henley Literary Festival 24 Literary Week 21 26 S Last day for Batch Mother’s Day Daylight Saving Time ends S 26 23 22 26 24 28 26 23 27 authorisations 25 22 27 S Bank Holiday; Lewis Carroll’s birthday; Holocaust Last day for Batch 29-12 (July) Wimbledon Spring Bank Holiday Last day for Batch Memorial Day authorisations Championships M 27 24 23 27 25 29 27 24 28 26 23 28 authorisations M Costa Book of the Year Beatrix Potter’s birthday; Shrove Tuesday; Last day Bookshop Social: Max Minerva’s, Last day for Batch Last day for Batch Last day for Batch announced; Last day for Batch for Batch authorisations Bristol Last day for Batch authorisations authorisations T 28 authorisations 25 24 28 26 authorisations 30 28 authorisations 25 29 27 24 29 T Parliamentary Book Awards; Last day for Batch Tolkien Reading Day 27-29 BookExpo (New York) W 29 26 Ash Wednesday 25 29 27 29 26 30 28 25 authorisations 30 W Last day for Batch International Friendship Day; T 30 27 26 authorisations 30 28 30 Emily Bronte’s birthday 27 29 26 31 New Year’s Eve T 27-5 (April) Oxford Literary Festival; J.K. Rowling’s birthday F 31 28 27 27-29 The Laugharne Weekend 29 31 28 30 27 F S 29 29-8 (March) Jewish Book Week 28 Earth Hour 30 29 31 Halloween 28 S S 29 Daylight Saving Time starts 31 30 29 C.S. Lewis’ birthday S

30-2 (April) Bologna Children’s Book Summer Bank Holiday St. Andrew’s Day; Bank Holiday M 30 Fair 31 (England & Wales) 30 (Scotland) M International Transgender Day T 31 of Visibility T

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