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!