Workshop: Making Messes with Amber Wheeler Bacon
Online - ZOOMCome to this workshop prepared to write! We’ll be doing exercises in character development with bad behavior and mistakes in mind.
$45
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Workshop: Pitching Personal Essays and Op-Eds with Beverly Willett
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesIn this workshop, you’ll learn how to craft your pitches for personal essays and op-eds, and lift them out of the slush pile. Op-eds are not just for PhDs, celebrities, and those with discrete technical knowledge. Everyone has an expertise and we’ll explore how to find yours.
$45
Workshop (Part One): Find Your Storyteller’s Voice with Telling Trails
Online - ZOOMThis special pair of workshops is designed to engage with writers and creators searching for their storytelling voice. Instructor Iris Jackson will share experiences from her Telling Trails photos, poems, and writings, providing time for comments and conversation, with the goal of students creating and sharing their own narratives.
$60
Workshop: How to Publish Your Book with Mary T. Jacobs
Online - ZOOMIn this workshop, Mary will share the stories beyond her books, including how she developed and published them. Through Mary's stories of the missteps she took, the lessons she learned, and the approaches which now guide her publishing journey, she will offer advice and guidance for writers seeking to craft and publish their own books.
$45
Workshop (Part Two): Find Your Storyteller’s Voice with Telling Trails
Online - ZOOMThis special pair of workshops is designed to engage with writers and creators searching for their storytelling voice. Instructor Iris Jackson will share experiences from her Telling Trails photos, poems, and writings, providing time for comments and conversation, with the goal of students creating and sharing their own narratives.
$60
Workshop (Part 1): Demystifying the Poetic Form with Charlene Spearen
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesPoetry 101 is a free two-part in-person introductory poetry writing workshop led by Charlene Spearen at the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. Part I will explore not only examples of artistic expression in Conroy’s work but also the art of writing haikus, sonnets, as well as pastoral and ballad poetry as a vehicle of imaginative awareness.
Free
Workshop: How to Publish Your Book with Mary T. Jacobs
Online - ZOOMIn this workshop, Mary will share the stories beyond her books, including how she developed and published them. Through Mary's stories of the missteps she took, the lessons she learned, and the approaches which now guide her publishing journey, she will offer advice and guidance for writers seeking to craft and publish their own books.
$45
Workshop (Part 2): Imaginative Awareness and Risky Business with Charlene Spearen
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesPoetry 101 is a free two-part in-person introductory poetry writing workshop led by Charlene Spearen at the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. In Part 2 participants will learn how to cross barriers and take risks as they create poems that move their audience deeply into their own individual worlds and experiences.
Free
Workshop: Writing Dialogue that Works with Tiffany Quay Tyson
Online - ZOOMWe’ll look at examples of effective dialogue, discuss what makes these examples work, and use what we learn to practice writing dialogue on our own.
$45
2022 Festival Day One
Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe annual Conroy 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 festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners
2022 Festival Day Two
Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe annual Conroy 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 festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners
2022 Festival Day Three
Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe annual Conroy 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 festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners
Workshop: Creating Couplets and Ekphrastic Poetry with Glenis Redmond
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesSC Academy of Authors inductee, Upstate South Carolina poet, and teaching artist Glenis Redmond explores the power of poetry through the legacy of David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved potter-poet from Aiken, South Carolina.
$45
Workshop: Sticks & Stones: Turning Grief Into Verse with Angelo Geter
Online - ZOOMThis workshop will explore how poetry can transform our relationship with grief by using elegies, language and imagery to relinquish pain, give power and honor our losses.
$45
Workshop: Creating Your Writing Practice
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesUPDATE: This workshop is now Sold Out. Four award-winning novelists--Mindy Friddle, Rebecca T. Godwin, J.C. Sasser, and Michel Stone--will share their instructive insights on how to cultivate resilience, stoke your creativity, and find success as a writer.
$45
Workshop: Narrative Poetry & the Oral Tradition of Storytelling with Monica Lee Weatherly
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesNarrative Poetry and the Oral Tradition of Storytelling, with Monica Lee Weatherly, explores the art of storytelling through verse. In this workshop, participants of all experience levels are invited to learn the history of narrative poetry and develop skills to create poetry that combines the rhythmical qualities of language with the traditional elements of a story including, character, plot, structure and theme.
$45
Workshop: More Than Just a Backdrop with Anthony Grooms
Online - ZOOMIn this seminar and workshop, participants will discuss setting in prose fiction, including its importance in establishing “place,” its integration into scene, and its support of characterization and theme.
$45
Workshop: Stop Making Sense! with Luis H. Francia
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesTaking its title from a Talking Heads song, this two-hour workshop uses verbal play, emphasizing lyricism and non-narrative technique. As in jazz, a lyrical poem riffs on the verbal energy of its initial lines to evolve towards a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
$45
Workshop: Writing as Spiritual Practice with Valerie Sayers
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThis workshop will explore a broad range of writers, from Thicht Nhat Hahn to San Juan de la Cruz to Toni Morrison, whose writing has been anchored by their belief in (or search for) the Divine.
$45
Workshop: Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThis workshop is now sold out. Our thanks to everyone who registered in advance. Led by an award-winning memoirist and novelist, this workshop is for those who want to put in writing their cache of family legends or happenings, and for those who want to assist their parents or relatives or friends in doing just that. A great holiday gift for a loved one!
$45