UNC Asheville’s 2006-07 Writers at Home Series kicks off with readings by local writers Christopher Brookhouse and Gary Ettari at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17, 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.

Brookhouse has published five novels, one story collection and two books of poetry. “A Selfish Woman,” his most recent novel, was nominated for the National Book Award. “Fog,” his recent story collection, won the New Hampshire biennial fiction award. A former professor at Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill, Brookhouse was founding editor of the film journal Hitchcock Annual. He lives in Asheville.

Ettari, a poet, has been published in Poetry Northwest, Tar River Poetry and the North Carolina Literary Review. He was the first runner-up in the 2005 Randall Jarrell Chapbook Contest and has recently completed his first novel. He received his master’s degree in poetry and a doctorate in Renaissance literature from the University of Washington. He is an assistant professor of literature and language at UNC Asheville. He lives in Candler.

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