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SUMMARY:An Evening with Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 27\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nBeaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with poet and writer Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude: Escapes with the Congaree\, on Monday\, November 27\, at 5:00 p.m. at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St #15\, Beaufort). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066. \nABOUT Swampitude\nA Finalist for the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize \n“Swampitude is the kind of book I look for…. I love its mix of the land and the personal and the philosophical. It’s marvelous….”–Joe Mackall\, editor\, River Teeth Journal \nSwampitude: Escapes with the Congaree explores and meditates upon the social\, literary\, historical\, personal\, ecological\, psychological\, and political meanings of a swamp: swamps in general\, and a particular swamp\, the Congaree in the center of South Carolina\, which has been designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve and is now Congaree National Park. \nA magical place of escape and fecundity\, the Congaree Swamp\, emblematic of all such often forbidding terrains\, is the largest old-growth river bottom forest in the United States. It is in the American South and has filtered much of that region’s history. The Congaree is also lucky to have gathered an environmental movement\, escaped the fate of most similar wetlands\, and to continue to flood\, drain\, and provide refuge for all creatures in need of it. This book celebrates the survival\, the stories\, and the continuance of such places. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn in South Carolina\, Quitman Marshall grew up in the swamp. He has published five books of poetry\, including You Were Born One Time (2014)\, which won the SC Poetry Archives Book Prize. A winner of the Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets and Writers\, Inc.\, and the founding coordinator of the Literary Series at the Spoleto Festival\, USA\, he has lived in Barcelona\, Washington\, DC\, Amherst\, MA\, New York City\, the suburbs of Paris\, and presently in Beaufort\, SC\, with his family. He works as a writer\, editor\, translator\, and teacher. \nPeggy Peattie is a multiple award-winning photo-journalist with 40 years experience. She worked for a decade in Los Angeles before joining The State newspaper in SC. There she published Down in Dixie\, a documentary of the racial tensions around the confederate flag. Back in San Diego\, she concentrates on stories of the border with Mexico and the unhoused community. \n  \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/an-evening-with-quitman-marshall-author-of-swampitude/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Strong Currents: Writing About Place\, Led by Patricia Foster
DESCRIPTION:CANCELED: This scheduled event has been canceled due to the presenter’s COVID diagnosis. We regret the inconvenience to those who have registered. \nRegister: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nThursday\, November 16\, 5:00-7:00 p.m. EDT\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \n“. . . feelings are bound up in places.” –Eudora Welty \nThis workshop will be an immersive writing class focused on the narrative terrain of place and its possibilities for writers of memoir and the personal essay. This means we will explore our inner maps of experience and memory\, assessing the physical texture and evocative details of a place (be it a room\, a meadow\, a neighborhood\, a town\, or a part of the country) as well as the value systems and moral struggles within that place (what is approved/silenced /avoided/revered/made nostalgic). \nIn this workshop\, we will make lists\, use repetitive phrases for rhythmic nuance\, do free-writes\, and use close readings of published essays/memoirs to guide us. As in all writing\, we are giving ourselves permission to take risks and surprise ourselves\, to allow our insights and experience to organize the writing. \nThursday\, November 16\, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nPatricia Foster is the author of Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award)\, Just beneath My Skin (starred Kirkus Review)\, Girl from Soldier Creek (SFA Fiction Award)\, and editor of four anthologies\, including Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. \nShe has won a Pushcart\, a Florida Arts Council Award\, an Iowa Dean’s Scholar Award\, a Clarence Cason Award\, a Yaddo fellowship and many other awards. She graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for 25 years. \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/workshop-strong-currents-writing-about-place-led-by-patricia-foster/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Patricia Foster
DESCRIPTION:CANCELED: This scheduled event has been canceled due to the presenter’s COVID diagnosis. We regret the inconvenience to those who have registered. \nWednesday November 15\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning writer Patricia Foster\, author of Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, on Wednesday\, November 15\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\n“Taking a cue from James Baldwin\, who found the innocence of privileged white Americans appalling\, Patricia Foster has recounted her own trajectory from clueless small-town Southern girl to a hard-won loss of innocence about the reality of racism…. A stunningly written\, unique and vital memoir.”–Phillip Lopate\, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay from the Classical Period to the Present \nIn Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, award-winning essayist Patricia Foster provides a double portrait of her family and her native region. A book of deeply personal essays\, Foster interrogates the legacy of racial tension in the South and the way race\, class\, gender\, and white privilege are entwined in her family story. \nInterviewing girls at Booker T. Washington High School in Tuskegee\, Alabama\, visiting the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery\, Alabama\, and exploring Africatown in Plateau\, Alabama\, Foster reflects on the racial scars and crossroads in her southern past as a way to reckon with the intimate places of her region’s wounding and grief. \nIn this story of the South\, a sense of place emerges not only from family histories and cultural traditions but also from wrestling with a culture’s irreconcilable ideas; the hard push to determine what matters. For Foster\, what matters are the shadow stories beneath our mythologies\, the complicated and radiant narratives that must be excavated and reckoned with. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPatricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award)\, Just beneath My Skin (starred Kirkus Review)\, Girl from Soldier Creek (SFA Fiction Award)\, and editor of four anthologies\, including Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. \nShe has won a Pushcart\, a Florida Arts Council Award\, an Iowa Dean’s Scholar Award\, a Clarence Cason Award\, a Yaddo fellowship and many other awards. She graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for 25 years. \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.
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