UNCA's Writers at Home Series Present Julia Nunnally Duncan and Chrysse Everhart

UNC Asheville’s spring 2002 Writers at Home series continues with readings by local authors Julia Nunnally Duncan and Chrysse Everhart at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 17, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of the Western North Carolina writers’ community and UNCA’s Creative Writing Program. The program is free and open to the public.

Duncan teaches English and creative writing at McDowell Technical Community College. Her credits include a Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series Award and publication in Writers' Forum, Victoria Press, Appalachian Heritage and others. She holds an masters of fine arts degree from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and is currently working on her first poetry collection.

Everhart is a new writer who has published poetry, fiction and essays regionally in such publications as Rapid River, Community Connections, Independence Boulevard and Main Street Rag. She has pieces forthcoming in Tickled by Thunder and in two as yet unnamed anthologies.

Other programs in the series will include readings by Maria Fire and Peggy Millin on April 21 and Kathryn Stripling Byer and Joan Medlicott on May 19. All events will be held at 3 p.m. at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe.

For more information, call UNCA’s Literature and Language Department at 828/251-6411.

Media Contacts:

• Tommy Hays, Great Smokies Writing Program Director, 828/254-1389
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526