Fleming County author Garry Barker’s latest book, “Kentucky Waltz,” won the 2008 Kentucky Literary Award for fiction presented by Western Kentucky University and the Southern Kentucky Book Fest.
The award and $1000 honorarium were presented during the Book Fest April 19 in Bowling Green. Other first place winners were Davis McCombs for “Dismal Rock” for poetry and, for nonfiction, Robert Morgan for “Boone: A Biography.”
Two other Wind Publications authors were finalists in the fiction competition: Normandi Ellis for “Fresh Fleshed Sisters” and Billy C. Clark for “To Find a Birdsong.”
“Kentucky Waltz,” a collection of short fiction, was published by Wind Publications in Nicholasville in late 2007. It is Barker’s 10th published book, and will soon be followed by “Head of the Holler: Volume 1,” a collection of newspaper columns dating back to the late 1980s.
“Kentucky Waltz” can be ordered from online booksellers such as Amazon.com or directly from Wind Publications, www.books@windpub.com.
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