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SUMMARY:December 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, December 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Robert Maynor\, author of The Big Game Is Every Night\, winner of the South Carolina Novel Series. \nWhen: Thursday\, December 14\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) \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 Maynor is from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. He lives and writes in a patched-up fish camp on the bank of the Edisto River\, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in North America. His fiction explores the spectrum of complexities and contradictions in the contemporary American South. His short stories have appeared in Blood Orange Review\, BULL\, The Carolina Quarterly\, and CRAFT\, among other outlets. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and he is the past recipient of the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the Coker Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. The Big Game Is Every Night is his debut novel. www.robertmaynor.com \n“Written in spare yet evocative prose\, Robert Maynor’s The Big Game is Every Night is a quiet and powerful meditation on broken families\, fractured friendships\, the pain of reckoning with having the thing that most defines you taken away in an instant\, and the legacy violence leaves in its wake.”—John Vercher\, author of After the Lights Go Out \n“One of the most honest works of fiction I have ever read. The Big Game Is Every Night is a bruised and brutal debut about a boy on the precipice of manhood and all the terror it entails. Maynor’s novel made me want to cradle my two sons and never let go.” —J.C. Sasser\, author of Gradle Bird \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/december-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:Workshop: When the “Heat of Feeling Warms the Intellect” Led by Jacquelyn Markham
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nTuesday\, December 12\, 6:00-7:30 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 \nHave you ever struggled with the shape and form of your poem? Or\, simply wondered what form best fit the experience you wanted to express? Whether your poem is inspired by the “heat of feeling” or you must invite the muse to your poem\, the interplay between form and content is important to your creative process. In this generative workshop\, we will draw on guidance from poets Denise Levertov and Mary Oliver\, as we explore different containers for our experiences. We will move from organic form through free verse to formal patterns\, such as the cinquain and rondeau\, to see our experiences take shape in new ways. \nWho should attend this workshop? Those who love language and long to express their experiences in words. Any level can take away some tips for the process of hearing and expressing what Levertov calls our “constellations of experience.” \nTuesday\, December 12\, 6:00-7:30 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: \nDr. Jacquelyn Markham has been writing\, teaching\, and publishing poetry for over three decades. She earned a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing with a focus on poetry from Florida State University. Her recent chapbook\, Rainbow Warrior (Finishing Line Press\, 2023)\, adds to her many publications in literary journals\, magazines\, and anthologies\, including Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005\, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology\, Lullwater Review\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, The High Window\, Woman and Earth\, among others. A recipient of numerous grants and awards for literary merit\, she has also published The Complete Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1884-1935) for which she was awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for distinguished contribution to scholarship. \nDr. Markham has taught writing for universities throughout the southeast as well as in community settings. Currently\, she mentors poets and writers while living and writing near the coast of South Carolina. \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-when-the-heat-of-feeling-warms-the-intellect-led-by-jacquelyn-markham/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Eat It and Like It host Jesse Blanco\, author of Savannah Food Crawls
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 8\, 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 of with Eat It and Like It host Jesse Blanco\, author of Savannah Food Crawls\, in conversation with food and travel writers Lynn and Cele Seldon. \nFree and open to the public\, this event will be held on Friday\, December 8\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Weather permitting\, the event will be outside. Books by all three authors will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Jesse Blanco and Savannah Food Crawls\nSavannah Food Crawls: Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite and Libation at a Time is an exciting culinary tour through one of Georgia’s most beautiful cities. Each crawl is the complete recipe for the perfect tourist day\, a new way to experience your own city\, or simply great food stories to enjoy from home. Put on your walking shoes and your stretchy pants and dig into Savannah one dish at a time. \nJesse Blanco is\, without question\, one of Savannah’s most recognizable personalities. His laid-back style and ability to connect with viewers and readers remain his calling card following a 24-year career in television news. During his 5 years as primary news anchor at the local FOX affiliate\, Jesse always found creative ways to connect with his audience. That talent extended to his weekly column in the Savannah Morning News\, which very quickly became one of the paper’s most popular features from 2012 to 2018. \nIn 2010\, Jesse and his business partner created a blog and later a television show dedicated to the underappreciated side of Savannah’s food scene. Four years later\, Savannah’s food scene exploded and Eat It and Like It found itself sitting in the front row to witness it all. Since 2014 he’s been the Savannah area’s only full-time food writer. This year\, his first book documenting Savannah’s food scene\, Savannah Food Crawls\, was published\, to be followed next year by Charleston Food Crawls. \nJesse was born in California but calls Miami his hometown. Having been raised in a very large Cuban-American family where the genetic makeup consists of food\, music\, dancing\, laughing\, and friendship. Throw in an insatiable desire to travel and explore and you get someone who is only happy learning or trying new things. Jesse is married with one child. \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWERS\nJesse will be interviewed by husband and wife writers Lynn and Cele Seldon\, the authors of 100 Things to Do in Savannah Before You Die\, 100 Things to Do in Charleston Before You Die\, and countless travel and food articles appearing in local\, regional\, and national publications. \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-eat-it-and-like-it-host-jesse-blanco-author-of-savannah-food-crawls/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Halle Hill\, author of Good Women
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 7\, 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 \n“A stunning slow burn brimming with observation\, emotion\, and incident.”—Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning writer Halle Hill\, author of the newly published story collection\, Good Women\, on Thursday\, December 7\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nAbout Good Women\n“In Halle Hill’s Good Women\, we meet mothers and daughters\, lovers and friends\, saints and aint’s––all longing for something\, some place\, someone. They are curious\, messy\, and determined\, and Hill’s fierce and dazzling pen lets us feel every ounce of their complicated desires. Every mistake\, every realization\, every triumph\, every tragedy. This is a fantastic firecracker of a collection I’ll return to again and again!”—Deesha Philyaw\, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies \n“This heralds a bright new talent.”—Publishers Weekly \nIn her dynamic debut\, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. \nDarkly funny and deeply human\, Good Women observes how place\, blood ties\, generational trauma\, obsession\, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds\, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice\, Hill carefully shines a light on how these twelve women shape and form themselves through faith and abandon\, transgression and conformity\, community\, caution\, and solitude. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nHalle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem\, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)\, she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Joyland\, New Limestone Review\, Southwest Review\, and The Oxford American\, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. https://hallehill.com \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-halle-hill-author-of-good-women/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Pat Conroy Cookbook
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 30\, 2023 – 6:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and the award-winning Rhett House Inn will host a monthly book club discussion of Pat Conroy’s dozen books in order of publication\, moderated by Charlene Spearen and Jonathan Haupt. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nRegister at Eventbrite \nFuture discussion dates will be announced this fall. \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \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/pat-conroy-book-club-the-pat-conroy-cookbook/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Linda Lovely\, author of A Killer App
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 29\, 2023 – 6:00-7:30 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 mystery novelist Linda Lovely\, author of A Killer App (An HOA Mystery)\, on Wednesday\, November 29\, at 6:00 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. \nIn keeping with the themes and plot of her newest novel\, Linda will also be discussing AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its implications for writers and readers. \nAbout A Killer App\nKylee Kane\, a security consultant for Welch HOA Management\, finds the first victim\, Andy Fyke\, crumpled at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Kylee suspects his fall’s no accident and is tied to Andy’s campaign to prohibit rentals in his Hilton Head Island community. Yet\, Andy’s obvious enemies have ironclad alibis. When another Lowcountry HOA retiree dies in a hit-and-run boat tragedy\, Kylee begins to think the incidents are linked-even though the victims and their assailants have little in common. \nThe link is the Chameleon\, an Artificial Intelligence expert\, who can create a deepfake of almost anyone-living or dead. Even more frightening is the Chameleon’s ability to seek out disturbed souls and laser-focus their rage. A talent employed to compel subjects to act as surrogate assassins. When Kylee begins to pursue the Chameleon\, the AI expert decides it’s time to groom an assassin to permanently sideline Kylee. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nA Killer App is Linda Lovely’s eleventh mystery/suspense novel. Whether she’s writing cozy mysteries\, historical suspense or contemporary thrillers\, her novels share one common element-smart\, independent heroines. Humor and romance also sneak into every manuscript. \nHer work has been recognized as a finalist by such prestigious awards as RWA’s Golden Heart for Romantic Suspense and Thriller Nashville’s Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery. A long-time member of Sisters in Crime and former chapter president\, Lovely also belongs to Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. She lives on a lake in Upstate South Carolina with her husband\, and enjoys swimming\, tennis\, gardening\, long walks\, and\, of course\, reading. \nAs part of her discussion of AI\, Lovely will also address: What prompted her to create a villain with expertise in AI? How did she investigate the tools at the disposal of an AI-savvy bad actor? How does AI respond if you ask it about potential perils for humanity…and benefits? How does AI impact authors? What’s the immediate impact for authors in regard to publishing contracts and copyright infringement? Are there legitimate and ethical ways for authors to use AI? How many books are currently being generated by AI and sold in competition with human author creations? What did the screen writers win in their strike against the studios? What protections exist for cover artists and designers? How can readers determine if the books they’re considering buying are AI-generated? Why should they care? What does AI mean long-term for the publishing world? \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-linda-lovely-author-of-a-killer-app/
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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.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-patricia-foster/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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