Publishing Manuscripts – Janet Ruth Heller

SORMAG Online Book Festival on December 1 through December 3 of 2023

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:December 10, 2023
Post category:Advice for Writers Books Chapter Book Children's Literature Conference Presentations Creative Writing Fiction Interviews Janet's Speaking Events Literature Marketing Books Multicultural Literature Nature Nonfiction Novels Picture Book Poetry Publishing Manuscripts

Janet Ruth Heller spoke at the SORMAG Online Book Festival on December 1 through December 3, 2023. On December 1, she participated in a panel discussion of authors of books for children. The topic was "Ask Us Anything about Children's/Middle-Grade/Young Adults Books." You can access the recording of that session at https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=SORMAG+Online+Book+Festival&qpvt=SORMAG+Online+Book+Festival&FORM=VDRE On Saturday, December 2, she spoke during a panel of authors entitled “Ask Us Anything about Writing” at 12 p.m. You can access the recording of that session. On Sunday, December 3, Janet answered questions about writing and publishing her work. Her answers are on the SORMAG Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/SORMAGBookFestival/posts/ There is no charge for this conference. Many authors spoke at this festival. There will be another SORMAG Book Festival in 2024. #bookfestival #writing #author #adviceforwriters

Poems accepted for publication in Ribbons, Verse-Virtual, and Eucalypt

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:April 27, 2022
Post category:Creative Writing Literature Nature Poetry Published Poetry Publishing Manuscripts

Recently, three different literary magazines have published my poems. Editor Susan Weaver of the tanka journal Ribbons published my poem “Sunset Landscape” in the spring/summer 2022 issue. I originally wrote this as a quatrain in 1976, but I recently revised it into a tanka, which resembles haiku but is five lines long instead of three. Editor Julie Thorndike of Eucalypt, another tanka journal, published my poem “Spontaneity” in issue 32. This literary magazine is based in Australia. Editor Jim Lewis of Verse-Virtual published three longer poems: “Bamboo Shoot,” “Warm Autumn in Michigan,” and “Tashlich” in the May 2022 issue. https://www.verse-virtual.org/2022/May/heller-janet-ruth-2022-may.html I’m very grateful to all of these editors for their interest in my work. #poetry #tanka #literarymagazines #poetryjournals Janet Ruth Heller reading her poetry at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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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.