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SUMMARY:October 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, October 12\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Brooke McKinney\, author of the debut poetry collection The Distance Between Birds. \nWhen: Thursday\, October 12\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \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 featured writer:\nBrooke McKinney is a poet and writer from South Georgia where she grew up on a farm and was raised by bulldogs. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Valdosta State University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. \nBrooke’s work was a finalist in the Key West Emerging Writer’s Contest and the World’s the Best Short-Short Story. Her nonfiction has received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference\, and Writers in Paradise. Her poetry collection\, The Distance Between Birds\, is forthcoming October 2023. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Awards and most recently\, her poetry was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review\, Copper Nickel\, New South\, Salt Hill Journal\, Potomac Review\, The Southeast Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO Poetry\, Artemis and Kestrel. She lives in Beaufort\, SC\, with two dogs\, Jane and Arlo. \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/october-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:September 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for September is Yvette R. Murray\, author of the poetry collection Hush\, Puppy. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, September 14\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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 featured writer:\nYvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review\, Emrys Journal\, Litmosphere\, A Gathering Together\, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow\, a 2021 Best New Poet selection\, a Watering Hole Fellow\, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina\, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. @MissYvettewrites. \n“Yvette Murray offers a collection that is so shrimp and grits\, so Gullah\, so Battery\, so Charleston. She invites us to taste\, feel\, and breathe her Charleston. She exercises her poetry muscles with traditional forms and lifts voices that Carolinians have heard all their lives. Let her be your tour guide through the pain and the joy. How grateful we are to share in her witness.”–Len Lawson\, author of Chime and co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry \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/september-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:August 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, August 10\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Ed Madden\, past Poet Laureate of Columbia and author of the newly published collection A Pooka in Arkansas. \nWhen: Thursday\, August 10\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \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 featured writer:\nEd Madden is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry\, most recently Ark\, about his father’s last months in hospice care\, and So they can sing\, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. \nHe is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina\, where he teaches Irish literature\, queer studies\, and creative writing. From 2015 through 2022\, Ed has served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica\, Brazil. \n“This book redeems the curse of where and what we are born into by conjuring spells. Bestial. Animistic. The poet strutting around like a mythic centaur\, or if you like\, a domestic ass. This book flies in the face of making the rough places plain and the crooked straight. You won’t have to have grown up queer in the deep rural South to be touched by the lyrical antics that go on here\, this alternative gospel spreading its haunches till every knee bow\, every tongue confess\, this chorus of Hallelujah inflected/infected by its own down and dirty twang.”—Timothy Liu \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/august-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:July 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for July is Robert J. Dreseen\, author of the poetry collection I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 13\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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 featured writer:\nRobert J. Dreesen is a publisher of scholarly books in New York City\, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He is the author of 20th Century Tool Shed\, a poetry collection. Dreesen returns to Nebraska every fall for an annual trip up the Missouri River with his brothers-in-bottle called “I Ain’t Lewis and You Ain’t Clark.” \n“The poems in Robert Dreesen’s I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit may be set in a truck stop bar but its ‘cricks’ are deep\, concealing the poet’s family’s loving reticence—‘for anything declared might be taken away’—with raucous living. Dreesen\, for whom two pianos in the room resembled ‘two horses in the pasture resting heads on one another’s rumps\,’ carries this blank verse tribute to his father from ‘engine whisperers’ to ‘a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.’ I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit tells a sad\, sure story with a wallop of an ending.”—Terese Svoboda\, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent \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/july-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:June 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, June 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Helen P. Bradley\, author of the novel Breach of Trust\, forthcoming in May 2023. \nWhen: Thursday\, June 8\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \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 featured writer:\nHelen P. Bradley’s debut novel Breach of Trust draws from her experiences during twenty-seven years heading a nationally-recognized crime victim advocacy program. A former newspaper journalist\, Helen has written curricula\, essays\, and articles for the National Organization for Victim Assistance\, the National Center for Victims of Crime\, and the Georgia Victim Assistance Academy. Her writing has been published in The Savannah Anthology\, Savannah Magazine\, The Savannah Morning News\, and Law Enforcement Magazine. She volunteered for 10 years with Deep Center\, a Savannah youth literacy program that won a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts award. \nIn August 2022\, Helen won first place in a national essay contest out of a field of 55 entries. NextTribe\, the “voice of women aging boldly\,” sponsored the contest in which Helen’s essay\, “From High Heels to Hot Wheels\,” reveals how she unexpectedly became a first-time mom at the age of 52\, when her husband’s two-year-old grandson came to live with them. Learn more at www.helenpbradley.com. \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/june-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:May 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for May is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, author of the debut novel Even As We Breathe\, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, May 11\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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 featured writer:\nAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians\, resides in Qualla\, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. \nHer debut novel\, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020)\, was a finalist for the Weatherford Award\, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020\, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in Yes! Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Our State Magazine\, and The Atlantic. She is a former secondary English and Cherokee Studies educator. Currently\, Clapsaddle is an editor for the Appalachian Futures Series (UPK)\, serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian\, and is the President of the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers Network. www.asaunookeclapsaddle.com \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/may-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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