fiction readings – Janet Ruth Heller

Read Across America includes How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:March 8, 2021
Post category:Books Bullying Children's Literature Creative Writing Diversity Fiction Janet's Speaking Events Literature Multicultural Literature Picture Book

On March 2, 2021, I participated in Read Across America by reading my award-winning fiction picture book for children about bullying and the solar system, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018). I read online for third- and fourth-grade students and teachers at Snow Elementary School in Newark, California. The students asked very good questions about my book and about being a writer. Thank you, Snow Elementary, for inviting me! https://snow.newarkunified.org/ #reading #readacrossamerica #bullying #solarsystem #picturebooks #HowtheMoonRegainedHerShapebook Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Ben Hodson

Janet’s Speaking Events from 2011 to June, 2014

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:August 10, 2014
Post category:Janet's Speaking Events

Saturday, August 13, 2011—Janet Ruth Heller and many other authors performed and autographed their books at the Reading Rocks in Rockford Festival. Janet sold her award-winning book for children about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale), and her new poetry book, Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press). There will also be writing workshops. This festival is free fun for the whole family from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Rockford, Michigan, in Garden Club Park on the banks of the Rogue River. Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.—Fiction Writing Workshop with Dr. Janet Heller—This free fiction writing workshop is designed for budding writers. Participants are encouraged to bring a story that they have written. Janet Heller has taught English and Women Studies at Western Michigan University. She is the founding mother of Primavera, a literary magazine. Dr. Heller has published the poetry book Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and an award-winning children's book about bullying called How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006). Limited to 20 participants. …

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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.