UNC Asheville's 2008-09 Writers at Home Series wraps up with readings from authors Marc Fitten and Mindy Friddle at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 17, at Malaprops's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public.

Fitten, a published author and editor, is the recipient of the Paul Bowles Fellowship for Fiction. He has published work in "Prairie Schooner," "The Louisville Review" and online at "Esquire." Fitten's debut novel, "Valeria's Last Stand," was released this month in nine countries. He is currently a doctoral student at Georgia State University and lives in Atlanta where he is the editor of "The Chattahoochee Review."

Friddle was awarded the 2008-09 Individual Artist Fellowship in prose from the South Carolina Arts Commission and has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize. Her first novel, "The Garden Angel," was selected for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program in 2004 and was a National Public Radio Summer Reading pick. Friddle's second novel, "Secret Keepers," was recently released. She currently lives in Greenville, S.C. where she writes a column for the Greenville Journal and she also directs the Writing Room, a community-based nonprofit program to bring writers to Greenville for seminars and readings.

The Writers at Home Series is sponsored by UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program. For more information, call the program at 828/232-5122.