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
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October 2022 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
An Evening with Novelist Jamie Ford
Online - ZOOMIn partnership with Buxton Books of Charleston, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a virtual visit with bestselling novelist Jamie Ford, author The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, a newly named selection of the Today Show's Read with Jenna Book Club.
Free
Pine Ridge: I Was Born to Be in a Library: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries, presented by Jonathan Haupt
Congaree Elementary 1221 Ramblin Road, West ColumbiaPat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
Free
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
An Evening of Poetry with Glenis Redmond and Marlanda Dekine
Sandies 711 Bladen St., Beaufort, SC, United StatesPoet Glenis Redmond is a 2022 inductee of the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame) and a 2020 recipient of the South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts. Poet Marlanda Dekine is newly named as the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellow for Spoken Word / Slam Poetry and winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.
Free
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
Darlington: I Was Born to Be in a Library: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries, presented by Jonathan Haupt
Darlington County Library 204 N. Main St., Darlington, SC, United StatesPat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
Free
Book Signing at Grayco’s Annual Holiday Open House
Grayco 136 Sea Island Pkwy, Beaufort, SC, United StatesAs part of this year's annual Holiday Open House at Grayco (136 Sea Island Parkway, Lady's Island), the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a multi-author book signing. Join us at Grayco from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 10
Free
November 2022 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
Beaufort Human Library, Second Edition
Technical College of the Lowcountry - Building 12 Auditorium 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe second edition of the Beaufort Human Library will be held as a free public event on Sunday, November 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., at the Technical College of the Lowcountry's MacLean Hall (104 Reynolds St, bldg 12, Beaufort, SC), in partnership with TCL, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the Beaufort County Library System, the Storybook Shoppe, the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, and community organizers and volunteers.
Free
Edisto: I Was Born to Be in a Library: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries, presented by Jonathan Haupt
Edisto Beach Civic Center 42 Station Ct, Edisto IslandPat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
Free
An Evening of Poetry with Libby Bernardin and Jane Zenger
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening of poetry with Libby Bernardin, author of House in Need of Mooring (Press 53) and Jane Zenger, author of Night Bloomer (Muddy Ford Press) on Tuesday, November 15, at 5:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.).
Free
Conversation with YA Novelist Kalynn Bayron Nov 2022
Online - ZOOMIn this special virtual event of the Bluffton Book Festival, New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron will discuss her YA fantasy novel This Wicked Fate, her highly anticipated sequel to This Poison Heart, in conversation with book reviewers Millie Bennett and Jonathan Haupt, as well as a live in-studio audience of students from Bluffton High School.
Free
An Evening with Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt on Tuesday, November 29, at 6:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.).
Free
December 2022 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
Book Challenges Forum 2022
Technical College of the Lowcountry - Building 12 Auditorium 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC, United StatesJoin us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.
Free
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