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SUMMARY:2023 Festival Day One
DESCRIPTION:Eighth Annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival\, October 26-29\, 2023 \nJoin Us in the Storied Lowcountry for the 8th Annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival on October 26-29\, 2023! The Pat Conroy Literary Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The 8th Annual Conroy Festival will be held on Thursday\, October 26\, through Sunday\, October 29\, as a series of free and ticketed events in Beaufort\, SC\, featuring author discussions\, writers workshops\, a poetry reading\, a screening of the film The Lords of Discipline\, and a musical performance. The ribbon cutting for the new Witness Tree Park has been postponed to 2024. \nTickets will be available for all events but the workshops at the door\nPresenting writers\, poets\, and instructors include bestselling authors Ron Rash (The Caretaker)\, Mary Alice Monroe (The Summer of Lost and Found)\, Mary Kay Andrews (Bright Lights\, Big Christmas)\, Victoria Benton Frank (My Magnolia Summer)\, Cassandra King (Tell Me a Story)\, Homeira Qaderi (Dancing in the Mosque)\, and Mitchell Zuckoff (The Secret Gate); screenwriter Tom Pope (The Lords of Discipline); Gallery Books executive editor Carrie Feron; poets Jennifer Bartell Boykin (Traveling Mercy)\, Freya Manfred (When I Was Young and Old)\, and Tim Conroy (No True Route); English professors and literary scholars Valerie Sayers\, Sean Heuston\, and Ellen Malphrus; and many more. \nOctober 26 Schedule (click for more information on the Festival website) \n12:00 pm TOURS: Pat Conroy Literary Center @ Pat Conroy Literary Center – Free\n2:00 pm WORKSHOP: Say What? A Playful Dialogue Workshop Led by Valerie Sayers @ Pat Conroy Literary Center – $45\n\n6:30 pm BOOK CLUB: My Losing Season @ Rhett House Inn – $10 \nFestival Website Links: \nEvents Schedule \nWorkshops \nFestival Facebook Page (where you can watch many author events) \nPresenters \nThe nonprofit Conroy Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday\, noon to 4:00 p.m. (with extended hours during the festival weekend) at 601 Bladen Street in historic downtown Beaufort.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/2023-festival-day-one/
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: My Losing Season
DESCRIPTION:Thursday October 26\, 2023 – 6:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nOctober 26 (Pat Conroy’s birthday): My Losing Season (2002)\nNovember 30 (5th Thursday due to Thanksgiving): The Pat Conroy Cookbook (2004)\n\nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-book-club-my-losing-season/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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