UNCA Writers at Home Series Continues with Readings
by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara and Dannye Romine Powell

UNC Asheville's Writers at Home fall series continues with readings by Jasmine Beach-Ferrara and Dannye Romine Powell at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 21, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program. The event is free and open to the public.

Beach-Ferrara is a graduate of Warren Wilson's Master of Fine Arts Program and is currently the Joan Beebe Teaching fellow at Warren Wilson College. Her stories have appeared in The Harvard Review and BlitheHouse Quarterly. She is working on a collection of short fiction.

Powell's latest collection of poetry, "The Ecstasy of Regret," was listed as one of the country's top 10 poetry books this year by Foreword Magazine. The collection won the Brockman Campbell Award and the Oscar Arnold Young Award and was also one of five finalists for the Southeastern Bookseller's Association Award. Powell is the recipient of several poetry fellowships and her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, The Paris Review and the Georgia Review.

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

Media Contacts:

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