Let's Celebrate (all of the) Holidays!
The Annual Highlights Fiction Contest is coming up! Entries
can be up to 800 words and the deadline is 1/31. This year's topic is Holiday.
While Christmas & New Years are top of mind right now, I
thought a list of other holidays may be great inspiration for everyone, whether
entering the contest or looking for a new idea to start the year.
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| Love this photo of a traditional Midsummer Dance! (By Totte Jonsson via sxc.hu) |
Nature Holidays: Earth
Day, Arbor Day, Groundhog Day, Summer Solstice, Winter Solstice, May Day,
Midsummer Day
Fun Days: New
Year's Eve, St. Patrick's Day, April Fools, Halloween, Festivus (for the rest
of us), Talk like a Pirate Day, Chinese New Year, Leap Day
Thankful Days: Thanksgiving,
Boxing Day
Holidays of Love:
Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Children's Day, Grandparents Day,
Sweetest Day
Religious Holidays:
Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Passover, Good Friday, Easter, Dyngus
Day, Christmas, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah, Diwali, Ramadan
Culture: Kwanzaa
Patriotic Days: Flag
Day, Patriot Day, Election Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day & National Day
of Service, Presidents Day , Memorial Day, Independence Day, Veterans Day
Worker Days:
Boss's Day, Administrative Professional's Day, Labor Day, Take Your Child to
Work Day
Women: International
Woman's Day, Helen Keller Day, Women's Equality Day
Discovery Days: German-American
Day commemorates the first German settlement, Leif Erikson Day honors the Norse
Viking explorer, Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day
Do you have any holidays in your region which I should
add? I'm sure there's an international
donut day or other important day I've missed (though there are few things as
important as donuts.)
Speaking of holidays - HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's to high word counts in 2014!
There is definitely a Donut Day and I think also a Chocolate Ice Cream Day. I love both of them! Thanks for the inspiration and the notice about the contest. It might be time to dust off those tinsel covered cobwebs in my head and on my paper and pen and get to writing! Happy New Year to you too Lauri!
ReplyDeleteI suggest you make some chocolate Ice Cream as inspiration for your chocolate ice cream day inspired story! Happy New Year!
DeleteI recently celebrated National Cookie day. Although to be honest, it's kind of a year round kind of thing. :) Happy new year, Lauri!!
ReplyDeleteYum, cookies. I've been celebrating Marshmallow Santa day for a few days now. Happy New Year Coleen!
DeleteNice summary! You got me with Dyngus Day though...
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm half Polish and my husband's from Buffalo, so Dyngus Day is always top of mind! Hilarious traditions - slapping eachother with pussy willow and pouring water on girls? Simply lovely. There's also a traditional donut, which is clearly the most important part. Happy New Year!
DeleteThanks for the list! It makes me think out of the box. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteYep, I was just going to work on a Christmas story, but then I thought maybe they were trying to trick us with the "Holiday" theme. Maybe I'm supposed to write about National Beekeepers Day or something. Happy New Year Penny!
DeleteWow. This will come in very handy. If you have a book out, you can plan your book promo around a particular holiday that best describes your book. For example, Julie panned her Shiver of Sharks book around Shark week. Not really a holiday, but you get the picture. Thanks for sharing, Lauri!
ReplyDeleteGreat point Romelle! I've loved watching Susanna go to sheep festivals with her books. BTW saw you sold your donut hole story!! Yeah!!
DeleteI celebrated Donut Day on my blog -- and in my belly. One of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget Tax Day! 'Cause if you do, you get arrested.
Funny guy! I wonder if there is a picture book about Tax Day though...
DeleteAlso Harold's Hat + Highlights Contest is a good match!!!
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