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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: Beach Music
DESCRIPTION:Thursday September 28\, 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) \nSCHEDULE \n\nSeptember 28: Beach Music (1995)\nOctober 26 (Pat Conroy’s birthday): My Losing Season (2002)\nNovember 30 (5th Thursday due to Thanksgiving): The Pat Conroy Cookbook (2004)\n\nRegister at Eventbrite \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-beach-music/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nFree Registration: 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 a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels on Thursday\, September 21\, at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance.\nThe panel discussion will include editor Susan Cushman and contributing writers Cassandra King\, Wendy Reed\, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson. \nAbout All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels\n“All Night\, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays\, stories\, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people\, tell them what to do\, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes… In this stunning anthology which explores so many heartwarming brushes with celestial beings\, all these angels are messengers come to assure us we are not alone\, and we are loved.”—Margaret McMullan\, award-winning author of Where the Angels Lived \nThere is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking\, of course\, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels\, but also mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, grandfathers\, friends\, and even a homeless man and a dog. \nABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS\nThis is Susan Cushman’s fourth anthology to edit. She is also the author of two novels\, two memoirs\, and a short story collection. Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are her two favorite authors and inspired her to write. Enough said. \n  \n  \nCassandra King (Conroy) is the author of five best-selling novels and two nonfiction books. Her latest book\, Tell Me a Story\, a memoir about life with her late husband Pat Conroy\, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A conversation with Cassandra at her home in 2018 about angels—and particularly about the one that visited Pat as he was dying—was the inspiration for this book. \n  \nWendy Reed is an Emmy-winning writer and producer\, whose work include documentaries and the long-running series Bookmark with Don Noble and Discovering Alabama. She is the author of An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and the co-editor of All Out of Faith and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. \n  \nAfter almost twenty years as a features editor at Southern Living magazine\, Nancy Dorman-Hickson now freelances in Birmingham\, Alabama. She co-authored Diplomacy and Diamonds\, the best-selling memoir of Joanne King Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. She is working on a memoir which draws from her rural childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Mississippi. \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/panel-discussion-all-night-all-day-life-death-angels/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Susan Beckham Zurenda
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street) | please call The Center to reserve your seat: 843-379-7025 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with novelist Susan Beckham Zurenda\, author of The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\, on September 19\, at 5:00 p.m. Zurenda will be joined in conversation by bestselling author Cassandra King\, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Free and open to the public\, this special event will be held at The Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\nImpoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension\, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous\, studious girl seated nearby\, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina\, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel\, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling\, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore\, their stern but compassionate English teacher. \nHazel hides her homelessness from Sterling until he discovers her cleaning the motel’s office one morning when he goes with his slumlord father to unfreeze the motel’s pipes. With her secret revealed\, their relationship deepens. Angela\, who has her own struggles in a budding romance with the divorced principal\, offers Hazel the support her family can’t provide. Navigating between privilege and poverty\, vulnerability and strength\, all three must confront what they need from themselves and each other as Hazel gains the courage to oppose boundaries and make a bold\, life-changing decision at novel’s end. Gripping and richly drawn\, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel explores the complex bonds between adults and teenagers and the power of the families we both inherit and create. \nInspired by the author’s experiences teaching in a South Carolina high school\, the novel is also an unflinching\, authentic look at the challenges faced by America’s public school teachers and the struggles of the thousands of homeless children in motels who live\, precariously and almost invisibly\, amid the nation’s most affluent communities. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSusan Zurenda taught English for 33 years on the college level and at the high school level to AP students. Her debut novel\, Bells for Eli (Mercer University Press\, March 2020; paperback edition March 2021)\, has been selected the Gold Medal (first place) winner for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards)\, a Foreword Indie Book Award finalist\, a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance\, a 2020 Notable Indie on Shelf Unbound\, a 2020 finalist for American Book Fest Best Book Awards\, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021. \nShe has won numerous regional awards for her short fiction. She lives in Spartanburg\, SC. \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-susan-beckham-zurenda/
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SUMMARY:September 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for September is Yvette R. Murray\, author of the poetry collection Hush\, Puppy. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, September 14\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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:\nYvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review\, Emrys Journal\, Litmosphere\, A Gathering Together\, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow\, a 2021 Best New Poet selection\, a Watering Hole Fellow\, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina\, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. @MissYvettewrites. \n“Yvette Murray offers a collection that is so shrimp and grits\, so Gullah\, so Battery\, so Charleston. She invites us to taste\, feel\, and breathe her Charleston. She exercises her poetry muscles with traditional forms and lifts voices that Carolinians have heard all their lives. Let her be your tour guide through the pain and the joy. How grateful we are to share in her witness.”–Len Lawson\, author of Chime and co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry \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/september-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:An Evening with T. M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Bren McClain
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 12\, 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 heart-wrenching and beautiful story of a man and his family brought to its knees by the Civil War. . . . historical fiction at its finest.”–Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist T.M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Willie Morris Award-winning novelist Bren McClain. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, September 12\, 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 The Last Laird of Sapelo\nThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding\, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure\, Thomas Spalding. Following his father’s death in 1851\, Randolph parlays his father’s fame and gifted landholdings on Sapelo Island\, hobnobbing from Charleston to Savannah to Milledgeville and ultimately failing to thwart Georgia’s decision to follow South Carolina into secession by early 1861. \nWithin weeks after the assault on Fort Sumter\, Lincoln’s naval blockade threatens the entire southern coast. Colonel Randolph Spalding\, now a reluctant commander of militia\, faces a storm of life-altering events in the months that follow\, imperiling his family’s legacy\, livelihood\, and lands. He ultimately must decide between supposed justice and saving the life of a slave who exacted revenge for the murder and rape of two children on Sapelo Island. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAuthor T. M. Brown went back to school after a thirty-year sales and marketing career; his lifelong love for history\, teaching\, and coaching landed him in the classroom until he retired in 2014. He took up writing novels and has published four award-winning Southern novels. \nHe is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club\, Southeastern Writers Association\, Broadleaf Writers Association\, American Christian Fiction Writers\, and founding president of Hometown Novel Writers Association\, Inc.\, in Newnan\, Georgia. \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-t-m-brown/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tuesday Talk: Patrick Dean\, Author of Nature's Messenger
DESCRIPTION:Register: Click the “Book a Program button on the Port Royal Sound Foundation website \nTuesday\, September 12\, 3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT\nCost: $10\nVenue: Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center | 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC \nAs part of their Tuesday Talks series\, the Port Royal Sound Foundation Maritime Center\, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will host an afternoon lecture by Patrick Dean\, author of the recently published book Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World. The program will be held at the Maritime Center’s education classroom\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, on Tuesday\, September 12\, at 3:00 p.m. $10/person. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout Nature’s Messenger\n“In this enlightening biography\, nature writer Dean traces the life of British naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749)\, whose The Natural History of Carolina\, Florida\, and the Bahama Islands was among the first European accounts of the flora and fauna of the Americas and influenced John James Audubon. An informative account of an important if lesser-known naturalist.” — Publishers Weekly \nIn 1722\, Mark Catesby stepped ashore in Charles Town in the Carolina colony. Over the next four years\, this young naturalist made history as he explored deep into America’s natural wonders\, collecting and drawing plants and animals which had never been seen back in the Old World. Nine years later Catesby produced his magnificent and groundbreaking book\, The Natural History of Carolina\, the first-ever illustrated account of American flora and fauna. \nIn Nature’s Messenger\, acclaimed writer Patrick Dean follows Catesby from his youth as a landed gentleman in rural England to his early work as a naturalist and his adventurous travels. A pioneer in many ways\, Catesby’s careful attention to the knowledge of non-Europeans in America—the enslaved Africans and Native Americans who had their own sources of food and medicine from nature—set him apart from others of his time. \nNature’s Messenger takes us from the rice plantations of the Carolina Lowcountry to the bustling coffeehouses of 18th-century England\, from the sun-drenched islands of the Bahamas to the austere meeting-rooms of London’s Royal Society\, then presided over by Isaac Newton. It was a time of discovery\, of intellectual ferment\, and of the rise of the British Empire. And there on history’s leading edge\, recording the extraordinary and often violent mingling of cultures as well as of nature\, was Mark Catesby. \nIntensively researched and thrillingly told\, Nature’s Messenger will thrill fans of exploration and early American history as well as appealing to birdwatchers\, botanists\, and anyone fascinated by the natural world. \nAbout the author: \nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. \nAn avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee\, and is the author of A Window to Heaven\, about the summit of Denali. \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/tuesday-talk-patrick-dean-author-of-natures-messenger/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Maritime Center\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC\, 29909\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Prince of Tides
DESCRIPTION:Thursday August 24\, 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) \nSCHEDULE \n\nAugust 24: The Prince of Tides (1986)\nSeptember 28: Beach Music (1995)\nOctober 26 (Pat Conroy’s birthday): My Losing Season (2002)\nNovember 30 (5th Thursday due to Thanksgiving): The Pat Conroy Cookbook (2004)\n\nRegister at Eventbrite \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-prince-of-tides/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Amy Paige Condon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 22\, 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 Amy Paige Condon\, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs\, newly released in paperback. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, August 22\, 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 A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place\n“This is not a simple life\, my friend\, and there are no simple answers.” The late editor of the late Miami News\, Bill Baggs\, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail―a frequent occurrence\, as Baggs\, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper\, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns\, such as protecting the environment\, desegregating public schools\, and peace in Vietnam. \nUnder his leadership\, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances\, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window\, police officers stationed outside his home\, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb\, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments\, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five\, his story nearly died with him\, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions\, like how to live in peace with one another? \nIn this first biography of this influential editor\, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt\, Georgia\, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II\, the civil rights movement\, the Cuban Missile Crisis\, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit\, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat\, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. \n“The marquee proclaiming the most celebrated journalists of the twentieth century probably wouldn’t include Bill Baggs. But ask everyone listed on the marquee who’s missing. By unanimous consent\, they’d say Bill Baggs\, the daring\, fearless\, ‘rapscallion’ editor of the Miami News. Why? Because as Amy Paige Condon so masterfully reveals\, Baggs led them on race\, Vietnam\, the environment\, historic preservation\, land conservation\, and the liberal conversation we’re still having today. This is a necessary resurrection of a departed journalist worth celebrating.”–Hank Klibanoff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press\, the Civil Rights Struggle\, and the Awakening of a Nation \n“When a book keeps you riveted into the wee hours of the morning\, and then brings tears to your eyes when it ends\, you can be pretty sure it’s a winner.”–Carol McCabe Booker\, editor of Alone Atop the Hill \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAmy Paige Condon is the founder of the Refinery Writing Studio and the associate editor of Beacon\, a quarterly news magazine published by the Savannah Morning News. She is the coauthor of Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook and The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. \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-amy-paige-condon/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:August 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, August 10\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Ed Madden\, past Poet Laureate of Columbia and author of the newly published collection A Pooka in Arkansas. \nWhen: Thursday\, August 10\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \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:\nEd Madden is the author of four other books and four chapbooks of poetry\, most recently Ark\, about his father’s last months in hospice care\, and So they can sing\, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize. \nHe is a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina\, where he teaches Irish literature\, queer studies\, and creative writing. From 2015 through 2022\, Ed has served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia\, SC. He is recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica\, Brazil. \n“This book redeems the curse of where and what we are born into by conjuring spells. Bestial. Animistic. The poet strutting around like a mythic centaur\, or if you like\, a domestic ass. This book flies in the face of making the rough places plain and the crooked straight. You won’t have to have grown up queer in the deep rural South to be touched by the lyrical antics that go on here\, this alternative gospel spreading its haunches till every knee bow\, every tongue confess\, this chorus of Hallelujah inflected/infected by its own down and dirty twang.”—Timothy Liu \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/august-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:An Evening with USA Today Bestselling Author Leonard Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday August 9\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Call the bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-812-9460\nLocation: Nevermore Books | 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort \n“A testament to the power of deductive reasoning…. Goldberg brings his characters vibrantly to life… a worthy successor to Conan Doyle’s original.”―Charleston Post and Courier \nNeverMore Books and the Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with USA Today bestselling mystery novelist Leonard Goldberg\, author of The Wayward Prince (Book 7 in the Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Series)\, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt. This free event will be held on Wednesday\, August 9\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Call the bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-812-9460 \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Wayward Prince\nDuring the height of the Great War\, playboy Prince Harry\, the third in line to the British throne\, vanishes in thin air while horseback riding in Hyde Park. When his absence continues on for days\, the royal family grows concerned and summons Scotland Yard\, who can only recover scant\, unrevealing clues. The concern deepens when MI5 decodes a recent message from German spies in London which speaks of a captured asset that will bring great embarrassment to the Crown. There is a strong belief within the Intelligence agency that plans are underway to transport the captive prince to Berlin without delay. Despite an intensive search\, no trace of the royal can be detected. \nWith Scotland Yard and MI5 baffled\, Joanna Holmes\, daughter of the famed British detective\, and the senior and younger Dr. Watsons are called in\, and they soon find themselves entangled in a web of abortion\, murder\, treason\, and spies\, all of which is seemingly being orchestrated by an arch-enemy of the long-dead Sherlock Holmes. In their race to rescue Prince Harry\, it becomes clear that the mastermind behind the maze of crimes has a singular motive in mind. He desires overdue revenge in the form of Joanna’s death. \n“An appealing installment for franchise fans and newcomers alike.” ―Kirkus Reviews \n“Goldberg amply demonstrates once again just how compelling a figure Joanna Holmes has become. Simply put\, this series is one of the best continuations of the Sherlock mythos that one could hope for.”―Mystery Scene \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nLeonard Goldberg is the USA Today bestselling author of the Joanna Blalock medical thrillers. His novels have been translated into a dozen languages and were selections of the Book of the Month Club\, French and Czech book clubs\, and The Mystery Guild. They were featured as People’s “Page-Turner of the Week” and at the International Book Fair. After a long career affiliated with the UCLA Medical Center as a Clinical Professor of Medicine\, he now lives on an island off the coast of Charleston\, SC. \n  \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWER \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, a frequent guest book reviewer for the Charleston Post and Courier\, and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. \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-usa-today-bestselling-author-leonard-goldberg/
LOCATION:NeverMore Books\, 910 Port Republic St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Fair 2023
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 8\, 2023 – 10 am – 2 pm EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 4 hrs\nLocation: Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion | 130 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, SC 29909 \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \n“A gorgeous book that will touch every child’s longing to connect with someone ‘out there’ who is like them.” Is how School Library Journal praised Indigo Dreaming\, the newest picture book from award-winning children’s author Dinah Johnson. Indigo Dreaming is a meditation on place\, wonder\, and connectedness as experienced by two young girls on opposite sides of the Atlanta Ocean. \nDinah Johnson will be the special guest author at the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s annual Children’s Book Fair\, to be held on Tuesday\, August 8\, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion (130 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie). Presented in partnership between the nonprofit Conroy Center\, the Port Royal Sound Foundation\, the Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore\, and DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization\, this special event is free and open to the public. \nJohnson will give a reading from Indigo Dreaming at 11:00 a.m. Student volunteers from DAYLO will be hosting a Teddy Bear Picnic read-aloud throughout the event. \nOther participating authors and artists in the Children’s Book Fair are Patricia Bee\, author of Try’umsee’s Wings; Bill Borg artist of Myrtle the Loggerhead Turtle; Rebecca Chamberlain\, author and artist of Maralee & the Turtles of the Sea; Lisa Anne Cullen\, author and artist of Haskel and Greta; Mary T. Jacobs\, author of the Big Daddy Series; Ann Eilers Lilly\, author of Scoot’s Savannah Rescue; Susan Montanari\, author of My Dog’s a Chicken; Robin Prince Monroe\, author of The Silent Glades; Sheree Richnow\, author of Dixie the Rescue Dog Makes New Friends; Susan Diamond Riley\, author of The Sea Witch’s Revenge; and Katherine Robinson\, author of The Crabs on Calhoun. \nAll Hands on Deck\, the student anthology from the 6th annual Camp Conroy will also make its debut at the Children’s Book Fair. And the Bluffton-based Storybook Shoppe will have a selection of other popular lowcountry children’s books available as well. \nAbout the Featured Author:\nDinah Johnson is the award-winning author of many books for young readers\, including H Is for Harlem\, which received five starred reviews and was named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year\, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year\, and a Horn Book Fanfare title. Indigo Dreaming is her most recent book. A professor of English at the University of South Carolina\, she lives in Columbia. Learn more at www.dinahjohnsonbooks.com. \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/childrens-book-fair-2023/
LOCATION:Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion\, 310 Okatie Hwy\, Okatie\, 29909
CATEGORIES:Education
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Lords of Discipline
DESCRIPTION:Thursday July 27\, 2023 – 6:30 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. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \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-lords-of-discipline/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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SUMMARY:Haiku Night Featuring Natasha Akery and Miho Kinnas
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: TUESDAY\, JULY 25\, 2023 AT 7 PM – 8 PM EDT\nCost: Free | Advance registration by July 23 is required to receive the Zoom link and attend. \nThis highly interactive virtual session will feature Natasha Akery’s new book of haiku\, in [the name]\, and other haiku. Akery has published her work on social media for years\, and also uses haiku in her classrooms as a teaching tool. Aided by fellow poet Miho Kinnas\, Akery will discuss various topics on haiku and welcome questions from the audience. Both poets will also be reading from their work. This free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThis free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participants after registering. \nAbout our authors: \nNatasha Akery is a language arts teacher and poet from Charleston\, South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies\, specializing in biblical literature and esoteric traditions. For three years\, she was an editor and a writer for 1:1000\, an online literary journal that published flash fiction paired with photographs. \nShe now devotes her writing practice to haiku with themes of heritage\, motherhood\, and spirituality. You can find her poems on Instagram (@writethreelines)\, on Ello (@writethreelines) and in I Am a Furious Wish: Anthology of Lowcountry Poets\, Vol. 1 published by Free Verse Press. Her first chapbook\, in [the name]\, is a collection of haiku inspired by the desert and biblical stories. It is available through Bottlecap Press. \nOne of the founding instructors for Camp Conroy: Build A Book summer camp\, Miho Kinnas is a Japanese poet and translator. The author of two poetry collections\, Today\, Fish Only and Move Over\, Bird (Math Paper Press)\, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. \nHer book reviews\, essays\, translations\, and poems in journals and anthologies in Asia and the U.S\, including Best American Poetry 2023\, Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press)\, Tokyo Poetry Magazine\, The Petigru Review (2023 Pushcart Nomination)\, andThe Belletrist Magazine (2019 Pushcart Nomination). She teaches haiku/tanka-based poetry workshops locally and virtually. We Eclipse Into the Other Side (Pinyon Publishing)\, written with E. Ethelbert Miller\, is forthcoming. \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/haiku-night-featuring-natasha-akery-and-miho-kinnas/
LOCATION:Online – ZOOM
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Interiority with Amber Wheeler Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nThursday\, July 20\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. EDT\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nOnline: Zoom \nWhen it comes to writing fiction\, Kurt Vonnegut said to “Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters\, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.” Got it. We can do that. But as we do\, it can become difficult to show readers how characters think and feel about all of these awful things happening in their lives. In first drafts\, “thoughts” and “feelings” can often be written involving the heart and lungs\, focused on heartbeats\, breathing rhythms and all sorts of skipping\, palpitating\, throbbing\, panting\, catching and swallowing. \nIn this class\, we’ll work on engaging with a character’s thoughts and feelings in ways that move beyond these cliches\, using specificity and deepening character. This will be a generative workshop. Using your own characters and their harrowing situations\, we’ll look at\, discuss and practice Rebecca Makkai’s four techniques to writing interiority: Action\, Thought\, Specific Physical Interiority and Tangential Thought. \nCome to this workshop ready to write\, and maybe laugh at some of the ridiculous clichés we’ve all leaned on in the past. \nThis interactive writers workshop will be held as an online video conference call through Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participating writers after registering. \nThursday\, July 20\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Zoom. 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: \nAmber Wheeler Bacon is a writer\, editor and teacher whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse\, Ecotone\, Epiphany\, Five Points\, New Ohio Review\, Post Road\, Prairie Schooner and Witness. You can find her writing online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. \nShe is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a 2021 scholarship from Bread Loaf Environmental. In 2020\, her story collection was a finalist for Hub City Press’s C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize and Moon City Press’s Short Fiction Award. She received the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction. She was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize\, nominated by Ecotone. Amber has an MFA from Bennington College\, teaches at Coastal Carolina University and lives by the beach in 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-interiority-with-amber-wheeler-bacon/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kerry Peresta\, Author of The Torching
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 19\, 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 suspense novelist Kerry Peresta\, author of The Torching (book 3 in the Olivia Callahan series)\, on Wednesday\, July 19\, 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 The Torching\n“Kerry Peresta has done it again\, giving us Olivia Callahan\, a complex heroine\, who is strong\, yet vulnerable\, clear-headed one moment\, lost in the terrifying fog of traumatic brain injury the next. In THE TORCHING\, we get to ride along as Olivia battles to rebuild\, literally and figuratively\, her life and her home\, while her murky past continues to throw shadows over her present and future. Tightly written\, this one’s a heart-pounding page-turner from beginning to end.”–Annette Dashofy\, award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Zoe Cham \nThree years ago\, Olivia Callahan endured an assault that resulted in a devastating brain injury. She survived\, but she couldn’t remember anything about her life or who she was. Now\, she’s determined to build a bridge between the past she lost and the life she must reclaim. \nWhen Olivia crosses paths with Private Investigator Tom Stark\, she is drawn to the investigative field\, and becomes his intern. She finds a heavily redacted\, forty-five-year-old file locked in his desk drawer that mentions her mother as a young woman. Why had her mentor hidden the file from her\, and why had he never mentioned a case involving her mother? \nAs Olivia moves forward with her fledgling career\, a string of mysterious fires moves through the community\, puzzling the Baltimore Arson Investigative Unit. One of the fires strikes Olivia’s beloved farmhouse in rural Maryland. Now\, in addition to uncovering the secrets bound within the redacted file\, she becomes convinced that the fires happening around the area are disturbing calling cards…and they’re meant for her. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKerry Peresta is the author of the Olivia Callahan Suspense series. Kerry spent thirty years in advertising as an account manager\, creative director\, copywriter\, and editor. She began writing full-time in 2009 as a newspaper humor columnist. \nHer books feature strong\, quirky\, women who wrestle with personal choices that result in dangerous and often bizarre situations. She is a member of Sisters in Crime\, Mystery Writers of America\, South Carolina Writers Association\, Island Writers Network\, and a presenter for the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Kerry and her husband live in Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. www.kerryperesta.net. \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-kerry-peresta-author-of-the-torching/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:July 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for July is Robert J. Dreseen\, author of the poetry collection I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 13\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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 J. Dreesen is a publisher of scholarly books in New York City\, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He is the author of 20th Century Tool Shed\, a poetry collection. Dreesen returns to Nebraska every fall for an annual trip up the Missouri River with his brothers-in-bottle called “I Ain’t Lewis and You Ain’t Clark.” \n“The poems in Robert Dreesen’s I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit may be set in a truck stop bar but its ‘cricks’ are deep\, concealing the poet’s family’s loving reticence—‘for anything declared might be taken away’—with raucous living. Dreesen\, for whom two pianos in the room resembled ‘two horses in the pasture resting heads on one another’s rumps\,’ carries this blank verse tribute to his father from ‘engine whisperers’ to ‘a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.’ I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit tells a sad\, sure story with a wallop of an ending.”—Terese Svoboda\, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent \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/july-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Beatriz Williams
DESCRIPTION:Sunday July 9\, 2023 – 2:00-3:30 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 Literary Center will host an afternoon with New York Times bestselling novelist Beatriz Williams\, author of The Beach at Summerly\, on Sunday\, July 9\, at 2:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nAbout The Beach at Summerly\nNew York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read\, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. \nJune 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war\, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly\, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop\, daughter of Summerly’s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island’s settlers\, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother\, Olive traveled the world\, married fascinating men\, and involved herself in political causes. She’s also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons\, Amory and Shep\, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic history. \nAs the summer wears on\, Emilia develops a deep rapport with Olive\, who urges her to leave the island for a life of adventure\, while romance blossoms with the sturdy and honorable Shep. But the heady promise of Peabody patronage is blown apart by the arrival of Sumner Fox\, an FBI agent who demands Emilia’s help to capture a Soviet agent who’s transmitting vital intelligence on the West’s atomic weapon program from somewhere inside the Summerly estate. \nApril 1954. Eight years later\, Summerly is boarded up and Emilia has rebuilt her shattered life as a professor at Wellesley College\, when shocking news arrives from Washington—the traitor she helped convict is about to be swapped for an American spy imprisoned in the Soviet Union\, but with a mysterious condition only Emilia can fulfill. A reluctant Emilia is summoned to CIA headquarters\, where she’s forced to confront the harrowing consequences of her actions that fateful summer\, and a choice that could destroy the Peabody family—and Emilia’s chance for redemption—all over again. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBeatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels\, including Her Last Flight\, The Summer Wives\, and The Golden Hour\, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. \nA native of Seattle\, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. \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-afternoon-with-beatriz-williams/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ruth P. Watson\, Author of A Right Worthy Woman
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 7\, 2023 – 5:00-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Eventbrite\nLocation: Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St. \n“A Right Worthy Woman takes its place alongside novels such as Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s Trouble the Water\, illuminating African-American heroes born in strife who find the strength\, fortitude\, and love to lead lives touched by grace.”–Historical Fiction Review \nIn partnership with the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with historical novelist Ruth P. Watson\, author of the newly published A Right Worthy Woman. A reception will follow the author’s presentation\, with books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Free and open to the public\, advance registration is requested. This event will be held at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St.\, on Friday\, July 7\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. \nRegister in advance here. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT A Right Worthy Woman\nIn the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built\, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker\, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States. \nMaggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to the overwhelming discrepancy between the Black residents and her mother’s affluent white clients. She vowed to not only secure the same kind of home and finery for herself\, but she would also help others in her community achieve the same. \nWith her single-minded determination\, Maggie buckled down and went from schoolteacher to secretary-treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke\, founder of a newspaper\, a bank\, and a department store where Black customers were treated with respect. With the help of influential friends like W.E.B. DuBois and Mary McLeod\, she revolutionized Richmond in ways that are still felt today. Now\, her rich\, full story is revealed in this stirring and intimate novel. \n“A Right Worthy Woman is a remarkable and stirring novel\, a story destined to be told. Ruth P. Watson brings to vivid life a woman who changed history\, a woman both determined and fascinating\, a woman named Maggie Lena Walker. From the heartbreaking opening line to the closing scene\, the reader is on a transformational journey as Maggie Lena Walker revolutionizes both Richmond\, Virginia and women’s history. Inspiring and rich with detail\, this is your next book club read.” — Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times bestselling author \n“History that’s never been told is being shared by master storyteller Ruth Watson in such an epic way.” — Brenda Jackson\, New York Times bestselling author \n“It is my distinct honor and pleasure to support this inspiring novel based on the life and times of Maggie Lena Walker\, who was one of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority esteemed honorary members\, inducted into our beloved organization in 1926.” — Dr. Valerie Hollingsworth Baker\, 25th International Centennial President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nRuth P. Watson is the author of Blackberry Days of Summer\, An Elderberry Fall\, Cranberry Winter\, and Strawberry Spring. A musical stage play\, “Blackberry Daze”\, is based on her debut novel. \nShe is the recipient of the Caversham Fellowship\, an artist and writer’s residency in KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa\, where she published her first children’s book in Zulu\, Our Secret Bond. She is a freelance writer and member of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators\, and has written for Upscale\, Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and other publications. She is an adjunct professor and project manager\, who lives with family in Atlanta\, Georgia. https://www.ruthpwatson.com/ \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-ruth-p-watson-author-of-a-right-worthy-woman/
LOCATION:Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Polly Stewart\, Author of The Good Ones\, in Conversation with Dana Ridenour
DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 29\, 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 \nThe Beaufort Bookstore\, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will host an evening with novelist Polly Stewart\, author of The Good Ones\, in conversation with retired FBI special agent turned thriller writer Dana Ridenour. This free event will be held on Thursday\, June 29\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at 2127 Boundary St.\, Ste 15. Books will be available for sale and signing. Call Beaufort Bookstore to reserve your seat: 843-525-1066. \n“Polly Stewart’s The Good Ones is a fantastic achievement. A classic Southern Gothic tale told through the prism of modern-day sensibilities. Not to be missed.”—S. A. Cosby\, New York Times bestselling author of Razorblade Tears \n“Smart\, dark\, and suspenseful\, The Good Ones skillfully navigates the sharp edges of small-town secrets that cut deep. A beautifully written mystery that’ll keep you guessing til the end.”—Laura McHugh\, award-winning author of What’s Done in Darkness \nABOUT The Good Ones\nThe last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home\, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle—as well as her grieving husband and young daughter—behind. \nNow\, nearly twenty years later\, Nicola\, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend\, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola\, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she’s reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly\, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls\, Nicola obsessively searches the internet\, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren’s ultimate fate. \nDriven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend\, Nicola takes a job in her hometown\, determined to uncover any bit of information\, any small clue\, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel\, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past—or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPolly Stewart is the author of The Good Ones\, forthcoming from Harper Books in June 2023. As Mary Stewart Atwell\, she’s also the author of Wild Girls (Scribner 2012). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and Poets & Writers\, among other publications. She runs the Craft of Crime Fiction interview series\, formerly published on Fiction Writers Review and now appearing on Instagram. \n  \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-polly-stewart/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:Workshop: June 2023 Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: Tuesday June 27\, 2023; 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC) with a Zoom option \nDid you tell yourself this is the year to publish some of your family stories? Whether your goal is a family-only writing project or maybe something a lot bigger\, begin writing and sharing with other writers in this follow-up to the February class. This course will enable you to start (or continue) the process with a goal of completing a project in the fall. \nCovers Beginning the Stories\, Finding Structure in Your Many Tales\, Publication\, and What to Do after Publishing the Stories\, as well as a round-robin sharing of work with feedback. Attendance at Writing Family Stories 1 is not required. \nThis interactive writers workshop will be held as an in-person class at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, with an option for remote participants to join via Zoom. \nTuesday\, June 27\, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Limited to 15 participants. $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nEstelle Ford-Williamson’s most recent book is Rising Fawn\, a novel set in Atlanta and Lookout Mountain\, GA. Previously she published Abbeville Farewell\, a Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia\, and co-wrote a memoir\, Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a ‘Lost Boy’ Refugee with Majok Marier. For four years\, she led “Writing Your Story” workshops at a senior center in the Atlanta area; a dozen students went on to publish full memoirs. \nShe has received awards for her novels and short fiction\, and offers writing workshops through the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association; she lives on nearby St. Helena Island. \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-june-2023-writing-family-stories-with-estelle-ford-williamson/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Great Santini
DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 22\, 2023 – 6:30 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. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \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-great-santini/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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SUMMARY:Camp Conroy: Summer Camp for Young Writers & Artists 2023
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION: Eventbrite \nCamp Conroy is a two-week day camp build-a-book experience for young writers and artists\, ages 8 to 14. Participants will create independently and collaboratively as they research\, write\, illustrate\, edit\, design\, and ultimately publish a book together. \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s 6th annual Camp Conroy will be held June 12 to 23\, Monday to Friday\, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Drop-off and pick-up hours are between 8:00-9:00 a.m. and 3:30-4:00 p.m.)\, with a closing reading to be held on Friday afternoon\, June 23. Presented in partnership with Beaufort Middle School\, the camp will creatively explore this year’s theme\, “When we find ourselves on a voyage exploring the unknown\, we discover extraordinary adventures leading to the most bountiful treasures.” \nDuring the first week of the camp\, we invite our campers to immerse themselves in creative exploration as they respond to our theme. In the second week\, campers refine their stories\, essays\, poems\, artwork\, and photography as they build their anthology together. Participants also constructively critique one another’s work\, forming thematic connections as they combine their selected works into a cohesive\, collaborative publication. \nCamp Conroy invites diversity and inclusivity among our campers with respect to race\, religion\, ability\, and all other aspects of identity.\nCamp Conroy 2023 Theme: When we find ourselves on a voyage exploring the unknown\, we discover extraordinary adventures leading to the most bountiful treasures. \nThe $300 registration fee for Camp Conroy includes two weeks of instruction\, camp activities\, and healthy daily snacks. Students must bring their own lunches and drinks each day. (This is a day camp; overnight lodging and meals are not included.) After the camp\, participants will each receive a copy of their published anthology. Registration closes on May 15. \nIn the 2004 Pat Conroy Cookbook\, Pat describes his “Bill Dufford Summer” spent between his junior and senior years on the campus of Beaufort High School (what is now Beaufort Middle School\, the site of last year’s Camp Conroy). It was a transformative summer for Pat and for his principal\, mentor\, and surrogate father figure\, Bill Dufford. As Pat writes at the end of his recollection\, “I had everything—the best summer of my life.” That has been and remains the goal of our Camp Conroy\, to give our campers the best summers of their lives. We hope you will join us this year. \nApplying for a Scholarship: A limited number of full and partial scholarships are available\, including a scholarship established in memory of Maura Connelly\, an instructor in our original Camp Conroy. To apply\, interested students should submit a sample of their work (story\, essay\, poem\, artwork\, or photography) with a brief letter about their interest in the Camp Conroy experience by May 15\, to the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, Attention: Camp Conroy\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC 29902. Scholarship recipients will be contacted in early June. \nSponsoring a Scholarship: Tax-deductible donations to the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center are most welcome to sponsor student scholarships or a visiting instructor for Camp Conroy. See the camp registration link for details. \nQuestions: Email us at campconroysc@gmail.com. \nMEET OUR INSTRUCTORS \nLisa Anne Cullen is an author\, illustrator\, and artist. Her most recent books are the Carolina folktales Little Orange Honey Hood\, Three Wild Pigs (University of South Carolina Press/Young Palmetto Books) and Haskell & Greta (Quantum 8 Press). She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists\, Seacoast Artists Guild\, Seacoast Artist’s Guild & Gallery Writer’s Group\, and teaches art and illustration. She holds an MFA in writing for children. \n  \nTwice nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2019 & 2023)\, Miho Kinnas is a Japanese poet and translator. Two collections of poetry\, Today\, Fish Only (2014) and Move Over\, Bird (2019) were published by Math Paper Press. We Eclipse Into the Other Side\, co-written with E. Ethelbert Miller\, will be released from Pinyong Publishing in summer\, 2023. Elaine Equi chose her poem\, “Three Shrimp Boats Over the Horizon” (Wet Cement Press Magazine) for The Best American Poetry 2023. \n  \nMaddy Roth is a third grade teacher at Lady’s Island Elementary School. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Early Childhood Education with a minor in Special Education from Pennsylvania State University in the spring of 2021. She also runs a competitive gymnastics program at The Foundry in Beaufort and coaches JV Cheerleading at Beaufort High School. \n  \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. In 2020\, he was awarded the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \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/camp-conroy-summer-camp-for-young-writers-artists-2023/
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SUMMARY:June 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, June 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Helen P. Bradley\, author of the novel Breach of Trust\, forthcoming in May 2023. \nWhen: Thursday\, June 8\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 Bladen St.) \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:\nHelen P. Bradley’s debut novel Breach of Trust draws from her experiences during twenty-seven years heading a nationally-recognized crime victim advocacy program. A former newspaper journalist\, Helen has written curricula\, essays\, and articles for the National Organization for Victim Assistance\, the National Center for Victims of Crime\, and the Georgia Victim Assistance Academy. Her writing has been published in The Savannah Anthology\, Savannah Magazine\, The Savannah Morning News\, and Law Enforcement Magazine. She volunteered for 10 years with Deep Center\, a Savannah youth literacy program that won a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts award. \nIn August 2022\, Helen won first place in a national essay contest out of a field of 55 entries. NextTribe\, the “voice of women aging boldly\,” sponsored the contest in which Helen’s essay\, “From High Heels to Hot Wheels\,” reveals how she unexpectedly became a first-time mom at the age of 52\, when her husband’s two-year-old grandson came to live with them. Learn more at www.helenpbradley.com. \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/june-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Two-Sentence Elevator Pitch with Ann Garvin
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This workshop has been rescheduled to Thursday June 1\, 2023 6:00-8:00 p.m. EDT \nRegister: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of ten participants is needed for this workshop.)\nOnline: Zoom \nWhen an agent or editor asks\, “What’s your book about?” will your brief description (your logline) capture their interest? Will they ask for more? Will they see you as a skilled professional or an eager newbie who isn’t quite sure what they are doing? \nEven the most skilled authors find distilling their book down to a compelling pitch difficult to do\, not because they don’t know what their book is about\, but because they do. In fact\, they know it so well that they don’t want to leave anything out. This results in more of a summary than juicy marketing copy designed to hook and interest an agent or a publisher. \nIn this virtual workshop led by USA Today bestselling novelist and Tall Poppy Writers founder Ann Garvin\, you will learn how to get to the very heart of your project and make certain that the story you’re working on is compelling and clear. Even the most complicated or quiet of tales can be pitched in such a way that people will sit up and take notice. \nTuesday\, May 9\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Zoom. Limited to 15 participants. $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nThis workshop will be held as an online video conference call through Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participating writers after registering. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nAnn Garvin\, PhD\, is the USA Today bestselling author of five funny and sad novels about people who do too much\, in a world that asks too much from them. Her forthcoming novel\, There’s No Coming Back From This\, will be published this August. Ann teaches in the low-residency master of fine arts program at Drexel University and lives in Wisconsin with her anxious and overly protective dog\, Peanut. She is the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers and is dedicated to helping authors find readers and vice versa. For more information visit www.anngarvin.net. \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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LOCATION:Online – ZOOM
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Kristen Ness
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 26\, 2023 – 5:30-6:30 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 Kristen Ness\, author of the debut novel At Loggerheads\, on Friday\, May 26\, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this special author event will be held at the Conroy Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \n“Kristen Ness’s At Loggerheads is a thrilling debut novel intertwined with mystery\, nature\, romance\, and betrayal. Set on a lush barrier island\, Ness offers the reader a rich sense of place in a whodunit that reflects on the meaning of home.”—New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe \nAbout At Loggerheads\nBrooke Edens\, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles\, has longed for a sense of home and belonging ever since her return to Anders Isle. But something is amiss on the Lowcountry island where she grew up. For years\, loggerheads have been disappearing from the beach and development has been encroaching on the island’s natural beauty and maritime forest. \nWhen a dead body is found on the same day as a mutilated loggerhead\, Brooke uses clues from her knowledge of sea turtles to help Detective Drew Young\, her closest friend and potential love interest\, investigate the many big crimes beginning to surface on their small island. Brooke’s life is further complicated by her ex-fiancé\, Charlotte-based attorney Caldwell Madden\, who appears on the island for a work trip and to support the presidential campaign of his father\, a US Senator. \nMore than just a whodunit\, this murder mystery includes romance\, nature\, politics\, real estate\, and science. With a captivating sense of place\, the story unfolds as a love letter to the barrier islands and coastal towns of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, where the often-opposing forces of mother nature and human nature influence what people will do for money\, for power\, and for love. Amid the many revelations\, betrayals\, and twists that threaten to pull Brooke and Drew apart\, will they be able to untangle the web of crimes\, catch the murderer and\, ultimately\, find a way back to each other? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKristen Ness grew up mostly in South Carolina\, spending countless days with nature and falling in love with the ocean and its creatures on Isle of Palms\, where she walks the beach at sunrise each summer in search of sea turtle nests as a volunteer for the Island Turtle Team. \nWhile practicing immigration law for the past twenty years\, Kristen has been moonlighting in pursuit of her lifelong passion for writing and her obsession with marine biology. Writing\, real estate\, politics\, and even publishing run in her blood as the daughter of an English teacher and a land developer\, and the great-granddaughter of the 14th Governor of North Dakota whose family owned and published The Bismarck Tribune. She has a BA in English from Duke University\, a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law\, and serves as an appointed member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Coral Advisory Panel. \nKristen lives in Charleston\, SC\, with her husband\, their two children\, two guinea pigs\, and a cat. At Loggerheads is her first novel. https://kristenness.com \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-novelist-kristen-ness/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Water is Wide
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 25\, 2023 – 6:30 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. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \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-water-is-wide/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Rainbow Warrior with Jacquelyn Markham
DESCRIPTION:Thursday May 18\, 2023 – 5:30-7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free public drop-in event\nRegistration: No advance registration needed\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a public launch event for Jacquelyn Markham’s new collection of poetry\, Rainbow Warrior\, on Thursday\, May 18\, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 601 Bladen St.\, in downtown Beaufort. No advance registration required. Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be provided. The author will give a reading from her new book at 6:30 p.m. \nAbout Rainbow Warrior\nThe powerful poems in Rainbow Warrior make connections between the lives of the islanders of the South Pacific impacted by nuclear testing on Bikini and nearby islands and the Deep Water Horizon oil spill that devastated land and sea off the coast of Louisiana. The poems in this collection—some narrative\, some epic\, some lyrical—delve into ecopoetics to reveal the human toll of environmental disasters. \nImages of the lone Ivory Billed Woodpecker\, now extinct\, juxtaposed with a child listening to the “Mother of the Sea” chant from a spiral shell\, or fledglings the “size of pennies/…copper in the sun” make everyday moments of healing and beauty in nature even more poignant. These poems that follow the moon and the tides strike awe in our hearts and move us toward a deeper social consciousness. \n“Jacquelyn Markham’s dedication of Rainbow Warrior to Rachel Carson prepares us for the power of this collection. Each of the ten poems gives us not only an insightful appreciation of nature but an awareness of its fragility in the lives of humans who too often view themselves as ‘gods’ in relation to it\, enjoying what they will without understanding they are destroying it. Drawing from indigenous lore\, and imagining the voices of the people directly affected\, Markham—as though herself listening to the spirit of the sea in a spiral shell\, as though heartfully calling on sky power—expresses outrage and terror in the dark necessary reminder that warfare’s bombs and greed’s oil drilling have poisoned our Earth. ‘I plunge into the water trying/yet I wonder will we survive?’ epitomizes the spirit of this strong sequence compelling in silent reading and superbly ready to be performed aloud by many voices.”–Katharyn Howd Machan\, author of Dark Side of the Spoon and other collections \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nDr. Jacquelyn Markham has loved poetry since wandering through the meadow along a mint-lined brook as a child in rural Michigan. She has written poetry for nearly as long\, so as a freshman in college\, she decided to make a career of it. After earning her bachelor’s degree in English\, she earned a master’s and a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. \nAuthor of two chapbooks and a personal mythology\, Peering Into the Iris: An Ancestral Journey\, she has published nationally and internationally in literary journals\, magazines\, and anthologies\, including Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005\, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology\, Anthology of Appalachian Writers\, Lullwater Review\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, The High Window\, and Woman and Earth\, among others. \nDr. Markham enjoyed a rich academic career from which she retired as a full professor. During her academic career\, her love of poetry extended to scholarship as she “rescued” 19th century women poets who had fallen into obscurity\, focusing on collecting the far-flung poems published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman during her lifetime. The result is the award-winning reference The Complete Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman\, 1884-1935\, Together with Commentary and Notes (Mellen Press\, 2014)\, recipient of the Adele Mellen Prize “for its distinguished contribution to scholarship.” She currently mentors poets and writers\, making her home 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/book-launch-rainbow-warrior-with-jacquelyn-markham/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:May 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for May is Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, author of the debut novel Even As We Breathe\, winner of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, May 11\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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:\nAnnette Saunooke Clapsaddle\, a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians\, resides in Qualla\, NC. She holds degrees from Yale University and the College of William and Mary. \nHer debut novel\, Even As We Breathe (UPK 2020)\, was a finalist for the Weatherford Award\, named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020\, and received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (2021). It also is the first novel published by a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Clapsaddle’s work appears in Yes! Magazine\, Lit Hub\, Our State Magazine\, and The Atlantic. She is a former secondary English and Cherokee Studies educator. Currently\, Clapsaddle is an editor for the Appalachian Futures Series (UPK)\, serves on the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Cherokee Indian\, and is the President of the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers Network. www.asaunookeclapsaddle.com \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/may-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Therapeutic Journaling with Sandra E. Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: Saturday May 6\, 2023; 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC) \nThis interactive writing workshop will highlight how to use therapeutic journaling to become more resilient by transforming traumatic events into opportunities for growth\, reframing failures into successes\, and changing unhelpful habits into ones that strengthen wellbeing. \nInstructor Sandra E. Johnson\, LMSW\, is the author of The Resilience Journal: 365 Days to Balance and Peace of Mind\, and a copy of the journal is included in the registration fee (a $19 value). \nThis is an in-person writers workshop\, held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St\, Beaufort). Limited to 15 participants; $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nTherapeutic journaling expert Sandra E. Johnson\, LMSW\, is the author of The Resilience Journal: 365 Days to Balance and Peace of Mind (Clarkson Potter)\, a 365-day journal designed to strengthen skills to not just survive adversity but thrive from it. \nPraised by bestselling authors Sharon Salzberg and Karen Casey\, PhD\, as well as mindfulness leaders Richard Miller\, PhD\, Shivani Hawkins\, and Stacey Milner-Collins\, The Resilience Journal offers inspirational quotes by great thinkers followed by interactive writing prompts to serve as guides towards greater wellness and resiliency. It is preceded by The Mind-Body Peace Journal: 366 Mindful Prompts for Serenity & Peace (Sterling Publishing)\, which has sold widely around the world and been highlighted in Psychology Today. \nJohnson is also a novelist. Her novel Flowers for the Living (Texas Review Press) garnered nominations for a PEN/Faulkner Award and Paterson Prize for Fiction. Her narrative nonfiction book\, Standing on Holy Ground: A Triumph over Hate in the Deep South (St. Martin’s Press) received glowing reviews from O: The Oprah Magazine\, USA Today\, Southern Living\, and other publications. Since earning a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina in 1988\, Johnson has been a clinical social worker with a number of health care organizations\, including those specializing in psychiatric services. \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-therapeutic-journaling-with-sandra-e-johnson/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Boo
DESCRIPTION:Thursday April 27\, 2023 – 6:30 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. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \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-boo/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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