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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.

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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 (more…)

Janet Heller Reads Her Book The Passover Surprise and Leads a Creative Writing Workshop at the Congregation of Moses in Kalamazoo on Sunday March 27, 2016

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Janet Heller Reads Her Children’s Book The Passover Surprise and Leads a Creative Writing Workshop at the Congregation of Moses in Kalamazoo

Sunday March 27, 2016 beginning at 10 a.m.

Brunch at 10:30 a.m. • Book signing at 12 p.m.

10 a.m.—Story event for children and families

In The Passover Surprise, Lisa and her little brother Jon enjoy collecting stamps. But when their father holds a contest to decide which child will get a new large stamp album, Lisa has to solve a difficult problem. This chapter book takes place around 1960 and includes details about Jewish soldiers’ experiences during World War II and early stages of the Civil Rights Movement. Janet Heller will read The Passover Surprise and discuss issues raised in this book, such as sibling rivalry, bullying, and discrimination.

10:45 a.m.—Workshop for older students & adults

In this Creative Writing Workshop, Janet Heller will share some great short works by Jewish authors and then give participants ideas for their own writing. She will individually help participants to structure their pieces and develop their topics by using specific details. (more…)

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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.