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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.

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

Janet Ruth Heller has published the poetry books Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011); the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990); the award-winning book for kids about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006); and the middle-grade chapter book for children, The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015).

front cover for Passover Surprise

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Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).