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Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Ben Hodson

Artalicious Fine Art Fair on September 21-22, 2024

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 16, 2024
Post category:Autographing Book Fairs Books Bullying Children's Literature Janet's Speaking Events Literature Picture Book Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

Michigan writers and illustrators will be reading and autographing their books for children at the Artalicious Fine Art Fair in downtown Adrian, Michigan 49221 on Saturday, September 21 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, September 22, 2024 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Booth 55, which is on Maumee St. between Winter St. and Main St. Writers and artists attending this event include Janet Ruth Heller, Katie Spina, Naomi V. Dunsen-White, Kim Sayers, Rhonda Accardo, Mimi Olson, Molly David, Mary Morgan, Cindy Williams Schrauben, Pria Dee, Angie Shinozaki, and Kim Bartosch. All of them are members of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Janet Ruth Heller will read from her award-winning picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edition 2022). She will also be autographing her middle-grade chapter book for kids The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016). Artalicious is a mixture of books, fine art, food, and entertainment. Please come to look at our great books for children of…

Janet Ruth Heller presented a memoir chapter and a literary analysis at the conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature on May 28-30, 2024.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:June 3, 2024
Post category:Autobiography Body-Shaming Conference Presentations Creative Writing Criticism Family Janet's Speaking Events Memoir Nonfiction Parenting Public Speaking

Janet Ruth Heller presented a memoir chapter and a literary analysis at the conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature on May 28-30, 2024 in East Lansing, Michigan. The title of her memoir chapter is "A Pat on the Back Is Only a Few Inches Away from a Kick in the Pants." This autobiographical essay is about being raised by hypercritical parents. Janet also did an analysis of “An Awakening,” one of the stories in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919). Her paper was titled "Multiple Awakenings in Sherwood Anderson’s Story 'An Awakening.'” This story has three main characters: the young reporter George Willard; the woman he cares about, Belle Carpenter; and the older man whom Belle loves, the bartender Ed Handby. The story’s title emphasizes the theme of reaching a new awareness about one’s life. As the plot progresses, all three characters wake up to realize their desires, their true power, and their place in Winesburg’s society. #memoir #literarycriticism #SherwoodAnderson #WinesburgOhio #power #parentalcriticism Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Diane Joy Schmidt

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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.