Donna Meredith
West Virginia Writers Conference
P.E.O. Authors Luncheon with Adrian Fogelin, Julie Bettinger, and Judy Jolly.
We had a lively discussion of BURIED SEEDS at Linda Rogers'
home in April.
Award-winning fiction
New for 2020! BURIED SEEDS: a novel
Gold Medal Winner!
Adult Fiction, Florida Author and Publishers Association, 2020
Another Gold Medal!
Women's Fiction, Florida Writers Association's RPLA Awards Contest
Plus--a Silver Medal for Blended Fiction (women's and historical) and Third Place Runner-Up for Novel of the Year (Before Publication)!
Read the novel Southern Literary Review called “Thoroughly engrossing, imminently readable, and ultimately uplifting . . . an important contribution to a body of socially-themed women’s literature.”
Two Women, A Century Apart. Both have had enough.
2017: Angie Fisher promises to take over her best friend’s duties as president of the local teachers union in West Virginia, but her unemployed husband fears her involvement will cost him a job with the FBI.
1903: Angie’s great-great-grandmother Rosella endures devastating loss, life-threatening illness, arrest, and the destructive force of an earthquake. Yet nothing derails her quest to control her own destiny and win the right for all women to vote.
Through pages of a family scrapbook, Rosella’s courage speaks to Angie. If she doesn’t advocate for her students, hearing-impaired grandbaby, and colleagues, who will? But will she lose the man she loves by taking a stand? At what point does silence become betrayal?
If you've read BURIED SEEDS, please leave a review. Here's a link to the novel on Amazon and here's a link to Goodreads.
New! Donna reads from BURIED SEEDS as part of the Phyllis W. Moore Author Series sponsored by the West Virginia Folklife Center at Fairmont State University.
Discussion Questions for BURIED SEEDS.
Recipes mentioned in BURIED SEEDS.
Interview on WFSU Public Radio.
New! Carter Seaton interviews Donna on her show CHAPTERS.
WEST VIRGINIA BY THE BOOK DISCUSSES BURIED SEEDS, Part One
WEST VIRGINIA BY THE BOOK DISCUSSES BURIED SEEDS, Part Two
Three generations of women in a family of West Virginia glass workers share their stories. From Aunt Livvie, Sarah learns about women in her family who overcame wrenching losses, brutal working conditions, and rape. These stories and her family’s unconditional love give Sarah the courage to forge a new life for herself and her child.
- FIRST PLACE, WOMEN'S FICTION, (pre-publication) Royal Palm Literary Awards, 2009
- RUNNER-UP, Gulf Coast Novel Contest, 2009
- Juried into the "Best of West Virginia" Collection at Tamarack
Molly Culpepper believes her hometown of Alderson, Georgia, is a place of harmony—until a colleague chalks a racial slur on the blackboard during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In the chaos that follows, Molly begins to see her town and herself differently as she works with her neighbors to heal wounds, both old and new.
- GOLD MEDAL, ADULT FICTION Florida Publishers Association, 2012
- FIRST PLACE, WOMEN'S FICTION, (pre-publication) Royal Palm Literary Awards, 2010
- Selected as a text by the UNT College of Education.
Impoverished college student Summer Cassidy just wants to earn her master's in hydrogeology but two months shy of her graduation, a corporation tries to suppress her research into contaminants in its ASR wells--can they keep her from pursuing the truth and her dreams?
- SECOND PLACE, thrillers (pre-publication) Florida Writers Association 2013.
When grad student Summer Cassidy arrives in West Virginia to test water quality near fracking sites, she confronts fouled wells, puzzling illnesses, and cyberespionage. Surrounded by chaos and deceit, can Summer track the source of contaminants before more people get sick—or even die— simply by turning on their taps?
- SILVER MEDAL, MYSTERY/THRILLER, Florida Authors and Publishers Association, 2016
- SECOND PLACE, Blended Fiction, FWA, 2016
- THIRD PLACE, Thriller/Suspense, FWA 2016
NONFICTION
Kelsey Murphy revolutionized the creation of multi-layered cameo glass by marrying fine art to manufacturing. This is the story of everyone in Kelsey's journey, including partner Robert Bomkamp, the people of Pilgrim Glass, and all the forces gathered in Ceredo, West Virginia, the small town and its people who believed in the magic of cameo glass.
- SILVER MEDAL, ADULT NonFICTION Florida Publishers Association, 2013
- Juried into the "Best of West Virginia" Collection at Tamarack
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