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Library Partners Press Award-winners receive national acclaim

Recent Library Partners Press Award-winning books, “Tree River Fish,” “Historic Houses of Worship in Peril” and “Cracker Gothic,” each earned strong reviews from Kirkus, a prestigious, national book review magazine.

Library Partners Press, an imprint of Wake Forest’s Digital Publishing Division, awarded the 2020 Gail O’Day Award for Poetry to Lamaya Covington Williams (’01, MALS ’05) for “Tree River Fish: Poems on America’s Reaping.”

Thomas Edward Frank, professor and associate dean for continuing studies in the Graduate School, won the 2020 David Coates Award for Non-Fiction for “Historic Houses of Worship in Peril: Conserving Their Place in American Life.”

Wanda Duncan, winner of the inaugural 2018 David Coats Award for Non-Fiction, was recognized for her book, “Cracker Gothic: A Florida Woman’s Memoir.”

We extend our congratulations to Lamaya, Tom and Wanda.

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Wanda Duncan to visit campus for book launch event

Wanda Duncan

Former Wake Forest staff member Wanda Suttle Duncan will visit campus May 1 to promote her newly-published memoir, “Cracker Gothic: A Florida Woman’s Memoir.”

The book tells the story of her return to her small, rural hometown in Florida from North Carolina to care for her aging mother.  A description for the book states that her “essays of her Cracker heritage and of rural Florida in the 21st century provide a glimpse of an old and authentic Florida that most tourists miss.  Her stories of caring for an aging parent while dealing with personal grief speak to how place can heal a heart.”

Duncan’s book launch event will take place at 5:30 p.m. at Kulynych Auditorium in the Byrum Welcome Center.  There will be a reception followed by a book reading, a Q&A and a book signing.  The book, published by Library Partners Press, will be available for purchase at the event.  It can be purchased, also, on Amazon.

The public is invited.  RSVPs are requested.  RSVPs may be sent to crackergothic@gmail.com.

For her book, Duncan is the first recipient of the David Coates Non-Fiction Award.  It grew out of her master’s thesis written at Wake Forest for her MALS degree. She completed her degree in 2013.

At Wake Forest, Duncan was a staff member with the MALS program and the Lifelong Learning Program.  She served as assistant director for the programs.

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