UNC Asheville’s 2006-07 Writers at Home Series continues with readings by local writers Michael Beadle and Cheryl Dietrich at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. 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.

Beadle, a performance poet, award-winning journalist and teaching artist, published his first book of poetry, “An Invented Hour,” in 2004. His poems have been featured in The Raleigh News and Observer’s Sunday Journal, the North Carolina Arts Council’s “Poet of the Week” series and Gatherings, an anthology of western North Carolina poets. He lives in Canton.

Dietrich is a retired Air Force officer who began writing just four years ago. Her article “The Streetcars of Zagreb,” based on her NATO deployment to Croatia, recently appeared in the Gettysburg Review. Her work has also been published in WNC Woman, Asheville Citizen-Times, Long Story Short, and Mud Rock: Stories and Ideas. She lives in Asheville and is currently working on her first novel.

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