UNC Asheville’s 2006-07 Writers at Home Series continues with readings by local writers Christine Hale and Vicki Lane at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, 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.

Hale’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in many literary publications, including “North Dakota Review,” “Apalachee Review” and the Beacon Press anthology “The Leap Years.” Her short fiction earned a Pushcart nomination and has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers. Hale is the author of a novel, “Basil’s Dream,” and is current at work on a memoir and a second novel. A fellow of the MacDowell, Ucross, Hedgebrook and Hambridge colonies and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hale holds the Joan Beebe Teaching Fellowship at Warren Wilson College. She is also on the faculty of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference at the University of the South.

Lane is the author of the Elizabeth Goodweather mystery series from Bantom Dell. She holds a master’s degree in English from the University of South Florida and has taught high school English in Florida. She said goodbye to Florida 31 years ago, and seduced by “The Whole Earth Catalogue” and “Mother Earth News,” moved with her husband to a farm in Madison County and learned to milk cows and raise tobacco. She began writing in 2000 and was 62 years old when her first novel was published.

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