Events
- January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford
- March – The Little Review founded by Margaret Caroline Anderson as part of Chicago's literary renaissance
- June 24 – Edward Thomas makes the railway journey which inspires his poem Adlestrop en route to meet Robert Frost; Thomas begins writing poetry for the first time after this summer
- July 2 – BLAST, a short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement, is founded with the publication of the first of its total of two editions, edited by Wyndham Lewis
- The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce
- Jethmal Parsram (1885–1948) and Lalchand Amardinomal Jagatiani (1885–1954) found the Sindhi Sahita Society, a publishing house, in India.
- Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", becomes a French citizen and enlists in the French Army to fight in World War I
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