Lying In, written by CWG member Barbara G. Tucker and produced by Colorful Crow Publishers of Calhoun, Georgia, has been honored by the Atlanta Writers Club and the Georgia Writers Museum. A panel of eight have chosen the novel as one of ten finalists for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. This award is granted every two years and has been won in the past by Alice Walker, Terry Kay, Mary Hood, and Kathryn Stockett, among others since 1982.
The winner will be announced at a dinner at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center on April 16.
Lying In is Barbara Tucker’s tenth novel. It is Appalachian historical fiction set during World War I and the Flu Pandemic of 1918; its physical setting is Dickenson County, Virginia. Barbara’s mother’s family has deep roots in that isolated part of Appalachia and hopes to mine it for many more important, real stories.