Awards, Reviews, and News/Magazine articles:
- PIVOT received a 5-Star Review from Readers' Favorite
- PIVOT won Honorable Mention for Poetry in the New York Book Festival Awards 2019.
- Hills of Home received a 5-Star Review from Readers' Favorite
- Hills of Home won Runner-Up for best book in Biography/Autobiography in the San Francisco Book Festival Awards 2019
- Parkersburg News & Sentinel article June 25, 2019 in print and online
- Elk River Living magazine article (pg 41), July 2019 in print and online
AUDIOBOOK RELEASED!!
HILLS of HOME, my memoir about growing up in Appalachia, has been released as an AUDIOBOOK in October 2018, narrated by the author, and is now available:
Download: at Audible as well as Amazon and iTunes.
Praise for Hills of Home:
"I think the book is a valuable detailed and most honest documentation of a part of Appalachia that has not been celebrated so well until now." (Earl Hamner, Jr., best-selling author of Spencer's Mountain and creator of the beloved The Waltons television series)
Debbie Richard
Debbie met with Stevan & Adelaide Nikolic of Adelaide Books
of NEW YORK on May 30, 2019 to sign copies of PIVOT at
"CROSSWINDS," my latest volume of poetry
has been published by Finishing Line Press
November 2021 and is available now on Amazon!
Cover Art designed by Aska's Atelier!
- "HILLS OF HOME" is being transcribed into Braille for Kristie Mills' students at the WV Schools for the Deaf & Blind
- "Literature for the People," new literary magazine from Malta in the UK has published 4 of my poems: "Unveiling," "Evanesce," "Firsts," and "Memoralized."
- My poem, "Rapunzel," was Shortlisted in the Adelaide Voices Poetry Award for Best Poem.
- I have been chosen as a FINALIST in the Adelaide Voices Poetry Award 2018 with my poem, "Between Two Worlds."
- Adelaide Literary Magazine has accepted three poems for publication in their January 2018 issue
- Poem "Harmony" published in January 2016 issue of Torrid Literature Journal
- Poem "Pilferer" published in the Fall issue of WestWard Quarterly
- Poem "Hinged" published in the Summer issue of WestWard Quarterly
- 'Hills of Home' A True Appalachian Chronicle - Article written by Cat Pleska for The Charleston Gazette
- "Ode to Earl Hamner" published in the print editon of the Nelson County Times and their online version The News & Advance
- Poems "Unrestrained" and "Grandmother's Vines"published in the Summer issue of Halcyon Magazine