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August 2025 Open Mic Night

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center's monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday, August 14, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured novelist will be Michael Spake, author of Life Close to the Bone. Open Mic will also include short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. When: Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT Price: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min Where: Conroy Center (601 [...]

Firing The Clay: A Poetry Workshop Led by Tim Conroy

Port Royal Sound Maritime Center 310 Okatie Hwy, Okatie, SC, United States

In this two-hour writing workshop led by Tim Conroy, poets will explore approaches to revision, considering the content and sound of each word, line, and stanza of each poem. Do you need to lower expectations to generate your first draft? Do you allow the poem to discover its true beginning? Do the prepositional phrases stall the poem into a nosedive? Do your verbs disappoint your poems? Are the adverbs really necessary? Does the poem need its current chronology? Have you played Jenga with the poem [...]

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Silent Book Club Beaufort

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Silent Book Club Beaufort, a unique take on the traditional book club, will hold its next meetup on Saturday, July 19, from 4:30 to 6:30PM at the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.). A relaxed and pressure-free space for readers of all types, this community gathering invites book lovers to enjoy their current reads in a welcoming and peaceful atmosphere. Silent Book Club Beaufort is co-sponsored by the Conroy Center and the student book club DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization). Unlike traditional [...]

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Teddy Bear Picnic Read Aloud with Daylo – September

Port Royal Farmers Market 1615 Ribault Rd, Port Royal, SC, United States

On the first Saturday of every month, you can join the student volunteers of DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization for a Teddy Bear Picnic read-aloud at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd.). In collaboration with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, high school and college student volunteers from the Beaufort-based chapters of DAYLO gather at the gazebo in Naval Heritage Park from 9:30 a.m. to noon to read diverse, inclusive picture books to children and their families, inspiring a love of stories, [...]

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The Prince of Tides Book Club Discussion – Presented by Jonathan Haupt & Ellen Malphrus

Port Royal Sound Maritime Center 310 Okatie Hwy, Okatie, SC, United States

“Wholeness. It all comes back. It’s all a circle.”–Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides Pat Conroy’s 1986 masterwork The Prince of Tides is the quintessential lowcountry novel, beloved by millions as their point of entrance into the lush southern geography, lyrical voice, and complex interweaving of fact and fiction which define the author’s literary legacy. Join Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and USC Beaufort English professor and Writer in Residence Ellen Malphrus for a book club discussion of the novel, its major [...]

Virtual Open Mic Night – Featuring Novelist Laura Leigh Morris, Author of The Stone Catchers

Virtual Event

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, September 11, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is novelist Laura Leigh Morris, author of The Stone Catchers. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres, with host Melissa Whiteford St. Clair. Interested in reading as part of virtual Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. About Our Featured [...]

Silent Book Club Beaufort

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Silent Book Club Beaufort, a unique take on the traditional book club, will hold its next meetup on Saturday, September 13, from 4:30 to 6:30PM at the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.). A relaxed and pressure-free space for readers of all types, this community gathering invites book lovers to enjoy their current reads in a welcoming and peaceful atmosphere. Silent Book Club Beaufort is co-sponsored by the Conroy Center and the student book club DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization). Unlike traditional [...]

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“I Was Born to Be in a Library”: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries

Charleston Country, SC - Public Library 68 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC, United States

"A library could show you everything, if you knew where to look."—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life The author of "The Prince of Tides," "The Great Santini" and "The Water Is Wide," Pat Conroy (1945–2016) is synonymous with the literature of the Lowcountry. Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life. Through video and audio clips, photographs, and published and [...]

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How to Create Suspense: Writers Workshop led by Melinda Farris

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

How to Create Suspense: 5 Unforgettable Cliffhanger-Ending Techniques How do you keep the reader reading when the average adult's attention span is 8.25 seconds? Cliffhangers are a technique used by genre writers (who sometimes get a bad rap) to keep their readers reading. And isn’t that what we all aspire to, above everything? Because cliffhangers are sometimes associated with schlocky writing, that doesn't mean we should ignore their usefulness as a craft tool in all sorts of writing. We'll look at five chapter-ending cliffhanger techniques [...]

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Pat Conroy as Nature Writer – Presented by Jonathan Haupt & Tim Conroy

Port Royal Sound Maritime Center 310 Okatie Hwy, Okatie, SC, United States

“My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.”—Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides An encore presentation! Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous, using the [...]

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