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Writing Workshop with Janet Heller about “Fixing Common Errors in Fiction and Nonfiction Manuscripts” at the Portage District Library on Thursday, September 24, 2015, at 6 p.m.

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Author Janet Heller will discuss “Common Errors in Fiction and Nonfiction Manuscripts and How to Fix Them” at the Portage District Library and comment on work submitted by workshop participants. Free event. Writers are encouraged to bring one of their stories or essays for comments. (more…)

Janet Heller Speaks at the Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association in Dearborn MI on November 13-14, 2014

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Thursday November 13 and Friday November 14, 2014—Janet Heller will be speaking at the convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Detroit-Dearborn. The conference theme is "The Lives of Cities." Janet will read her autobiographical essay “Growing Up on the Other Side of Lake Michigan,” which combines poetry and prose, on November 13 from 2:15 to 3:45 p.m. She will also discuss “Capturing Adolescence in Detroit: The Poems of Jim Daniels” from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, November 14.

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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.