UNC Asheville will continue its 2008-2009 Writers at Home Series at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. Noted local authors Laura Hope-Gill and Marjorie Klein will read from their original work. The event is free and open to the public.

Hope-Gill is an instructor in UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program. Her poems, essays and a memoir have appeared in a number of noted literary journals, including Cincinnati Review, Parabola and the North Carolina Literary Review. She is a 2009 Fellow of the North Carolina Arts Council for creative nonfiction. Hope-Gill's collaboration of poetry with photographs," The Soul Tree," is forthcoming from Grateful Steps Press.

Klein has taught at the University of Miami and Florida International University. Her first novel, "Test Pattern," was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great new Writers" selection for winter 2000. She has served as a preliminary judge for the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts and is a member of Southern Artistry, an online registry of Southern artists. Klein is presently working on a second novel.

For more information, call the Great Smokies Writing Program at 828/232-5122.