UNC Asheville’s 2007-08 Writers at Home Series continues with readings by local writers Billie Harper Buie and Elizabeth Lutyens at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16, 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.                                                                                                         

Buie's short stories and poetry have appeared in many literary publications, including "Calyx Journal" and "WNC Women." One of her recent short stories earned the 2007 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize. Buie is at work on a story forthcoming in the Thomas Wolfe Review. She lives in Asheville with her husband and three children.                                                    

Lutyens is the author of profiles and essays for numerous small-press publications. She placed as a finalist in the fiction competition of the 2006 National Literary Awards. Lutyens continues to work as a freelance feature writer and is completing a novel set in Boston and the South Carolina Sea Islands during the 1860s. She holds a MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College and is a Great Smokies Writing Program instructor                                                                                        

For more information, call Great Smokies Writing Program Executive Director Tommy Hays at 828/254-1389.