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SUMMARY:July 2025 Virtual Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, July 10\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is novelist Abagail Summers\, author of After the Storm. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 10\, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual – Facebook \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org \nWe want to build our community of writers and an appreciation for the art and talent of new\, emerging\, and long-time writers. Thank you for supporting this partnership! \nEvent Facebook Page \nAbout our author:\nAbagail Summers is a Lowcountry author of short stories\, poetry\, and novels—including Life with a Bird Out the Window (2014)\, Forgiving the Past (2020)\, The Untold Legacy (2021)\, and her newest release\, After the Storm (2025). \nTwo of her short stories\, Shining Light and Claire De Lune\, were published in the anthology An Iron Fist in A Velvet Glove\, and both were awarded honorable mention in the Globe Soup 7-Day Writing Contest. Summers earned her BA in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a member of several writing groups\, including Write Like You Mean It\, Kingsbridge Writers Circle\, Writers Beyond Borders\, Charlotte Lit\, and Main Street Writes\, She has been regular participant in the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Open Mic Nights. \n  \nAbout After the Storm\nJune Waters walks away from the country music business at the height of her popularity\, leaving people wondering why. But only she knows why. Not even the people closest to her know what’s happening inside her head or her heart. To make matters worse\, her dad is dying from lung cancer and can no longer run the farm on his own\, which has put her family in jeopardy of losing it all. Against their will\, June moves her absent husband and resentful daughter to her hometown of Franklin\, Tennessee. But when she’s there\, her past weaves its way back into her life\, leaving her with many questions about who she is. Not only that\, but the hourglass has been turned\, the bank starts the foreclosure process. As she balances on the high wire of life\, she must make an agonizing choice: Fight for the land she loves by heading back to Nashville with her pride tucked back into her pocket\, or become the mother her daughter needs her to be. \n  \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.
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Katherine Scott Crawford author of The Miniaturist's Assistant
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 17\, 2025 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, in partnership with Beaufort Bookstore\, will host an evening with novelist Katherine Scott Crawford\, author of The Miniaturist’s Assistant\, on Thursday\, July 17\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). \nBooks will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nThe Miniaturist’s Assistant explores the mystery of time\, how our choices ripple throughout history\, and what it means to be a fully-realized woman— in any century. \n2004: In historic Charleston\, recently divorced art conservator Gamble Vance throws herself into her career restoring centuries-old miniature portraits. But one portrait haunts her: a woman in a fox stole\, with familiar hazel eyes. When Gamble meets a girl in an alley\, she’s convinced it’s the same woman— and it’s not the first time they’ve met. For help\, Gamble turns to African American Studies scholar Tolliver Jackson— a former foster kid with secrets of his own. But as Gamble’ s memories resurface\, the pair discover a connection which may endanger more than one life… in more than one lifetime. \n1804: Miniature portraitist and fallen-away Quaker Daniel Petigru paints for Charleston’ s high society. Daniel and his sister live with a free Black family\, their connection long and complicated. When Gamble arrives from the future and her presence puts them all at risk\, Daniel must decide if he loves her enough to let her go. \n“What a lush\, bold novel is The Miniaturist’s Assistant by Katherine Scott Crawford\, blending love\, intrigue\, and the role of portrait art in history for a story that is as suspenseful as it is wildly romantic. I’m not a fan of time travel tales in general\, but the astounding journey of art restorer Gamble Vance through the Charleston of the present and the very long past transcends genre and takes the reader places that are entirely new.”—Jacquelyn Mitchard\, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and The Birdwatcher \n“The Miniaturist’s Assistant is a multifaceted love story wrapped in a mystery that unfurls on the changing winds of history. A rollicking\, page-turning tale\, this unforgettable novel explores time travel\, art\, passion\, the complexity of past sins\, and the abundant promises embedded in the here and now. Katherine Scott Crawford has written a beautiful book steeped in humanity\, truth\, and wonder.”—Connie May Fowler\, author of Before Women had Wings \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKatherine Scott Crawford is the award-winning author of The Miniaturist’s Assistant and Keowee Valley. A former backpacking guide\, adjunct professor\, and recovering academic\, her newspaper column appeared weekly across the country and abroad\, including in USA Today\, The Detroit Free Press\, the Herald Scotland\, and more. Winner of a North Carolina Arts Award in fiction\, she holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. \nShe’d rather be in the woods with her dog than anywhere else\, enjoys curious people\, adventure\, and snow—and believes historical fiction the best way to time travel. An eleventh-generation Southerner\, she directs writing retreats at a remote mountain lodge in Western North Carolina\, where she lives with her family. \n  \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/an-evening-with-katherine-scott-crawford-author-of-the-miniaturists-assistant/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Novelist Karen White\, Author of That Last Carolina Summer
DESCRIPTION:Register: Register at EventBrite \nWednesday\, July 23\, 2025 · 5 – 7pm EDT\nCost: $40 (no refunds)\nVenue: Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce | 711 Bladen Street Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Storybook Shoppe bookstore are honored to host an evening with New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Karen White\, author of newly published That Last Carolina Summer. Join us on Wednesday\, June 23\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 711 Bladen Street (BCBCC\, ground floor). This event will also feature a special welcome by Conroy Center honorary chair and bestselling author Cassandra King. \nAdvance registration required; $40 fee includes an autographed copy of That Last Carolina Summer\, the author’s presentation\, and refreshments. This is a book-with-ticket event; no refunds will be possible. Additional copies of Karen White’s books will also be available for sale and signing through the Storybook Shoppe. \nLearn more and register at EventBrite \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT THE BOOK\nBeloved bestselling author Karen White returns with a captivating Southern drama about sisterhood\, secrets and one woman’s reckoning with the past. \nAs a child\, Phoebe Manigault developed the gift of premonition after she was struck by lightning in the creek near her Charleston home. Plagued throughout her life by mysterious dreams\, and always living in the shadow of her beautiful sister\, Addie\, Phoebe eventually moves to the West Coast\, as far from her family as possible. Now\, years later\, she is summoned back to South Carolina\, to help Addie care for their ailing mother. \nAs Phoebe’s return lures her back into deep-rooted tensions and conflicts\, she is drawn to Celeste\, whose granddaughter went missing years ago. Their connection brings comfort to Phoebe\, while Celeste’s adult grandson Liam resurrects complicated emotions tied to Phoebe’s past.\nBut the longer Phoebe spends in her childhood home\, the more her recurring nightmares intensify—bringing her closer to the shocking truth that will irrevocably change everything. Unfolding against the lush backdrop of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, That Last Carolina Summer is an unforgettable story about the unbreakable bonds of family and the gift of second chances. \n“This multi-generational story is layered with juicy family secrets while exploring sisterhood\, the power of memory\, and the pull of home. The perfect summer read.”—Jamie Brenner\, bestselling author of A Novel Summer \n“Karen White brings all her magnificent storytelling gifts to this stunner of a novel. As much as you want to race along and discover all the secrets\, you find yourself stopping to savor the truths she weaves into every twist and turn. If That Last Carolina Summer has a flaw\, it is this: you won’t ever want to wake up from its spell.”—Beatriz Williams\, bestselling author of Husbands & Lovers \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKaren White is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author with millions of copies of her books in print in fifteen different languages. When not writing\, Karen spends her time reading and bird-watching. She and her husband have two grown children and a spoiled Havanese dog\, Sophie\, and she divides her time between Atlanta\, Georgia\, and the northwest Florida coast. \n  \n  \n  \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/an-evening-with-new-york-times-and-usa-today-bestselling-novelist-karen-white-author-of-that-last-carolina-summer/
LOCATION:Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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