Upcoming Events

Open Mic Night–Featuring Novelist Michael Spake, Author of Life Close to the Bone

601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States, South Carolina 29902

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. Interested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. About Our Featured Authors Michael Spake is the author of Life [...]

Pat Conroy: An Introduction to a Lowcountry Legend

21A-1 Market Street. Beaufort, SC 29906

On Monday, August 25, at 6:00-8:00 p.m., Village Social of Habersham will host Pat Conroy: An Introduction to a Lowcountry Legend, presented by Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. This special event is the first in a series of collaborative lectures and author discussions to be held in partnership between Village Social of Habersham and the Conroy Center from August through February. Internationally acclaimed writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) is best remembered as the author of The Water Is Wide, The [...]

Our Prince of Scribes: Featuring Stephanie Austin Edwards, Lynn Seldon, and John Warley

21A-1 Market Street. Beaufort, SC 29906

Best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Winner of 17 book awards, the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: [...]

Nature Writing: Kayak on the Chechessee and Write about It

310 Okatie Hwy, Okatie, SC, United States, South Carolina 29909

RSVP Required. Click the orange “Book a Program” button on our website to sign up! portroyalsoundfoundation.org We who live in the South Carolina Lowcountry are fortunate to be surrounded by its extraordinary nature – the marsh and its seasons, live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, 180 degrees of ever-changing sky, marsh and shore birds, crabs and dolphins and fish, the bright sunshine that lights this southern world, and of course, water…the ocean and rivers and their tides. In this workshop you’ll kayak on the Chechessee [...]

An Evening with Novelist Carla Damron, Author of The Weird Girl

Pat Conroy Literary Center

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Carla Damron, author of The Weird Girl, on Tuesday, October 28, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Damron will be in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and DAYLO student leader E Achurch. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. ABOUT THE WEIRD GIRL “A riveting read that [...]

Virtual Open Mic Night — Featuring Devreaux Baker, Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry Winner

601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States, South Carolina 29902

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, November 13, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is poet Devreaux Baker, winner of the 2025 Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry. 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 [...]

Our Prince of Scribes: Featuring Margaret Shinn Evans, Bren McClain, and Sean A. Scapellato

21A-1 Market Street. Beaufort, SC 29906

Best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of his lasting impact on literary life in and well beyond the American South. Winner of 17 book awards, the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: [...]

Open Mic Night–Featuring Poet Emily Rosko, Author of Weather Inventions

601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States, South Carolina 29902

The Pat Conroy Literary Center's monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday, December 11, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured poet will be Emily Rosko, author of Weather Inventions. Open Mic will also include short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. Interested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. About Our Featured Author Emily Rosko’s books include: Weather Inventions; Prop Rockery, winner of [...]

Pat Conroy as Nature Writer

21A-1 Market Street. Beaufort, SC 29906

On Monday, January 26, at 6:00-8:00 p.m., at Village Social of Habersham, 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 lowcountry not only as a setting but as the [...]

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