Lost track of the many literary prizes and literary dates? Just missed the announcement of the Booker or Pulitzer prize winners? Join the club! Even we struggle to keep up. Here’s a bit of help with all the important dates for the literary calendar. We’ve focused mainly on dates for the UK except some internationally significant book prizes and festivals. Please let us know in the comment field below if we missed any (which we surely have)!

January

30th – 3rd Jaipur Literature Festival (2025)

30th – 2nd – Hay Festival Cartagena, Colombia (2025)

February

1st Feb  – 9th Feb – National Storytelling Week (2025)

5th Feb – Wellcome Collection Non-Fiction Award (2025)

12th – Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction short-list (Previously known as Bailey’s Prize) (2025)

14^th – International Book Giving Day (2025)

25th – Booker Prize International long-list (2025)

March

TBC – PEN America Literary Awards (Cancelled in 2024)

4th – Women’s Prize for Fiction long-list (Previously known as Bailey’s Prize) (2025)

26th – Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction short-list (Previously known as Bailey’s Prize) (2025)

20th – World Storytelling Day (2025)

21st – World Poetry Day (2025)

24th – 3oth March – Shakespeare Week (2025)

29th – 6th April- Oxford Literary Festival (2025)

April

2^nd – International Children’s Book Day (2025)

2nd – Women’s Prize for Fiction short-list (Previously known as Bailey’s Prize) (2025)

8th – Booker Prize International short-list (2025)

23rd – World Book Night (2025)

23rd – World Book Day – UK (2025)

26th – Women’s Prize for Fiction short-list (2025)

May

2nd – International Harry Potter Day (2025)

TBC – The Pulitzer Prize (US) (2025)

TBC – Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – short-list (2025)

2oth- Booker Prize International winner (2025)

22nd – May – 1st June – Hay Literary Festival in Hay-on-Wye (2025)

June

12th – Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction winners (2025)

14th – 21st – Independent Bookshop Week (2025)

TBC – Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – winner (2025)

July

TBC – Booker Prize long-list (2025)

August

 9^th – 24th – Edinburgh International Book Festival (2025)

September

4th-7th – Hay Festival Mexico (2025)

13^th – Roald Dahl Day (every year)

TBC – Booker Prize short-list  (2025)

TBC – Hay Festival Segovia (2025)

October

Black History Month (every year)

6th -12^th – National Libraries Week (2025)

5th – 11th – Banned Books Week (2025)

TBC – Nobel Prize for Literature (2025)

3rd  – National Poetry Day (2025)

7th – 16th  – Cheltenham Literary Festival (2022)

17th – Booker Prize winner (2022)

19th – 23th – Frankfurt Book Fair (2022)

15th- 16th  – Cliveden Literary Festival (2022)

20th – 30th – London Literature Festival (2022)

23rd – Everyone Writes Day (2025)

November

3rd – Prix Goncourt (France) (2022)

17th – Baillie Gifford Prize Winner (2022)

16th – National Book Awards (US) (2022))

23rd – 27th- Hay Festival Winter Weekend (2022

December

 None

For a more comprehensive overview of all UK literary festival, click here.