2016 – Page 10 – Janet Ruth Heller

Editing & Publishing Workshop with Janet Ruth Heller at the Boston Public Library on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 12, 2016
Post category:Advice for Writers Books Editing Manuscripts Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Nonfiction Poetry Publishing Industry Publishing Manuscripts Writing Workshop

Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.—Author Janet Ruth Heller will do a workshop for teenagers about the editing and publishing process at the Boston Public Library. This workshop is free of charge and open to the public. The location is the Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116. For more information, please contact teen librarian Anna Draves at 617.859-2334 or use the website www.bpl.org/teens (more…)

Two New One-Act Plays by by Award-Winning Playwright Jordan Tannahill in Toronto

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 10, 2016
Post category:Literature Theater Reviews

Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom, two one-act plays by Jordan Tannahill in their world premieres, are currently being performed by Canadian Stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre in Toronto. Tannahill has won the Governor General’s Award. Both new plays are modern retellings. Botticelli in the Fire focuses on a segment of the life of the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli. Sunday in Sodom retells the story of Lot’s wife in Genesis. The Berkeley Street Theatre is a small theater in a remodeled factory building. (more…)

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.