The UNC Asheville 2009-2010 Writers at Home Series continues with readings by students in the Great Smokies Writing Program's prose master class. The readings will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, at Malaprop's Bookstore/Café, 55 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public.

Novelist Elizabeth Lutyens serves as instructor for the prose master class, which offers guidance for students who are working on a collection of essays or stories, a novel or a memoir. The readers will include Cheryl Dietrich, Judi Godlenberg, David Guinn, Tom Honea, Karen Nilson and Jerry Stubblefield.

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.