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Monday, July 8, 2024
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Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
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July 11, 2024 -Open Mic Night, Featuring Novelist Rebecca Thompson
Open Mic Night, Featuring Novelist Rebecca Thompson
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday, July 11, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is novelist Rebecca Thompson, winner of the Ann Head Literary Prize and author of the duology The Girl of the Tree and Seeking the Truth. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. Interested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us [...]
Friday, July 12, 2024
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Saturday, July 13, 2024
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July 13, 2024 -Mystifying the Familiar: Writers Workshop Led by Jo Angela Edwins
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July 13, 2024 -An Evening with Jo Angela Edwins, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee and Author of A Dangerous Heaven
Mystifying the Familiar: Writers Workshop Led by Jo Angela Edwins
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how imaginative unions in poems can lead to insight. We’ll look at poems like Billy Collins’ “Hippos on Holiday” or Heid E. Erdrich’s “Indigenous Elvis at the Airport” to see the effect of the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the unexpected. As a generative exercise, we’ll also do a writing activity to inspire the beginnings of such a poem. Saturday, July 13, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is [...]
An Evening with Jo Angela Edwins, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee and Author of A Dangerous Heaven
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Jo Angela Edwins, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee and author of A Dangerous Heaven, on Saturday, July 13, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. Edwins will also lead a poetry writing workshop earlier that afternoon, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Details and registration: https://mystifyingthefamiliar.eventbrite.com About the book [...]
Sunday, July 14, 2024
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