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Richelle's literary work has been published in Common Ties, Pif Magazine, The Copperfield Review, Birmingham Arts Journal and two bestselling series: A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters and A Cup of Comfort for Christmas Prayer and A Cup of Comfort Twelve Days of Christmas and more and was also chosen for The Copperfield Review’s 10th Anniversary Celebration Anthology.  She is the managing editor and writer for The Bluegrass Standard and the publisher/editor of Southern Roots Magazine. She writes for Town & Gown Magazine, Mississippi Magazine, eat. drink. MISSISSIPPI, Parents & Kids, Well Being, Portico, and Social South magazines.
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Top Ten Winner Feature Article Category for "Tally-Ho!" 
​Spotlighted in the November issue of Writers Di
gest!

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​Thank you, Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC), for awarding a $500.00 mini grant to Richelle for the 2017 AWP Writers Conference and Book Fair in Washington, DC.  You Rock!

Read the Franklin County Times article/review on Richelle's short memoir, "The Power of a Mother's Love" published in A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Daughters


Read Richelle's flash fiction piece, Spirtfilled, at Pif Magazine


Read Richelle's humorous fiction piece, Reincarnated at USA Deep South


Hear Richelle's interview on the Mississippi Arts Hour, Mississippi Public Broadcasting


Read Richelle's poem, Tallahatchie, in the Birmingham Arts Journal


Read some of Richelle's Town & Gown features: 
The Lion Hills Center
Catch a Dream Foundation
Made in Mississippi: Kittinger Clay
A Different Kind of Hero


Well Being Magazine:
Winter Blues


Parents & Kids Magazine:
Celebrate HUBFEST - Hattiesburg, MS







The 39th New Millennium Award for Nonfiction (2015)
Winner - Susan Nathiel, Middlefield, CT
"Hearing Silence"

Congratulations to the Nonfiction Honorable Mentions!

Adrianne Aron, Berkeley, CA

Cathy Beres, Evanston, IL

David W. Berner, Forest Park, IL

Terence Cady, Santa Fe, NM

Kevin Camp, Washington, DC

Anne Frohna, Prescott, AZ

Myrna Greenfield, Brooklyn, NY

Richard Hague, Cincinnati, OH

Saffron Marchant, New Alberose, Hong Kong

Kate McCahill, Santa Fe, NM

Alberta Nassi, Sacramento, CA

Thomas Osborne, Atlanta, GA

Jesse Padilla, Normal, IL

Diana Perkins, Highlands Ranch, CO

Richelle Putnam, Meridian, MS ("Chipped, Not Broken")

Christine Ritenis, Suffern, NY

Morgan Smith, Santa Fe, NM

Rachael Sokolowski, Truro, MA

Deborah Thompson, Fort Collins, CO

John Wagner, Montpelier, VT

The 39th New Millennium Award for Fiction (2015)
Semi-Finalist for "My Friend Anita"



Print publications richelle works with

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Enjoy "Take the Long Way Home (for Love) written and performed by Richelle Putnam
Honorable Mention American Songwriter Magazine
Women of Substance Radio
Many other stations

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” Albert Camus 


“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”  Mahatma Gandhi 


“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson 

" How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye."  ​Matthew 7:4-5


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