{"id":2842,"date":"2022-04-19T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2022-04-19T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T15:41:24","slug":"author-michelle-richmond-awarded-troy-universitys-hall-waters-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/04\/19\/author-michelle-richmond-awarded-troy-universitys-hall-waters-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Michelle Richmond awarded Troy University&#8217;s Hall-Waters Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alabama native and best-selling author Michelle Richmond was awarded the Hall-Waters prize for contributions to southern literature from <a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a>&#8216;s English department.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To me it&#8217;s such a welcome home,&#8221; says Richmond.  &#8220;It&#8217;s such a wonderful homecoming and it feels so much to me to get to be a part of this in my home state because I feel like I became a writer in Alabama and that&#8217;s sort of where I cut my teeth and where so many of my stories come from.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richmond writes a variety of genres from expectations in marriage to mystery thrillers but what each novel has in common is the reflection of life being pushed out of your comfort zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I just want to write about ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary and extremely difficult situations and how they navigate those situations,&#8221; says Richmond. &#8220;So there&#8217;s often a lot of grief and loss but in the latest book there&#8217;s also satire.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the full story watch Talor&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama native and best-selling author Michelle Richmond was awarded the Hall-Waters prize for contributions to southern literature from Troy University&#8216;s English department. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me it&#8217;s such a welcome home,&#8221; says Richmond. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a wonderful homecoming and it feels so much to me to get to be a part of this in my home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/04\/19\/author-michelle-richmond-awarded-troy-universitys-hall-waters-prize\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[923,924,484],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hall-waters-prize","tag-michelle-richmond","tag-talor-waymon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}