Writers at Home Series Continues September 18 with Readings by Local Authors Brenda Flanagan and Robert McGee

UNC Ashville’s Writers at Home Series continues with readings by local authors Brenda Flanagan and Robert McGee at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of Western North Carolina writers and UNC Asheville. The event is free and open to the public.

Brenda Flanagan, a native of Trinidad, is a professor of English at Davidson College where she teaches fiction writing and Caribbean and African-American literature. She has published a novel, “You Alone Are Dancing,” as well as a collection of short stories, “In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes.” She also writes plays and poetry. Flanagan has performed her work throughout the world as a U.S. State Department cultural ambassador. In February, she became the first American writer to present her work in Libya in 25 years.

Robert McGee’s work has been published in such places as Carve Magazine and NPR’s National Story Project Anthology, “I Thought My Father Was God.” Later this year, his story, “The Woman With Hair,” will appear in The Sun. McGee recently completed “Rational Managers, Irrational Times,” a collection of stories set in an American office. He’s currently at work on new stories, as well as a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, where he lived for three years. In 2004, McGee was the recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship for the residency at Vermont Studio Center.

For more information, call Elaine Fox, UNC Asheville director of Extension and Distance Education, at 828/232-5122.

Media Contacts:

• Dr. Elaine Fox, UNC Asheville Director of Extension and Distance Education, 828/232-5122
• Jill Yarnall, UNC Asheville Public Information Assistant Director, 828/251-6526