• December 2022 Open Mic Night

    Online - Facebook Live

    Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.

    Free
  • Book Challenges Forum 2022

    Technical College of the Lowcountry - Building 12 Auditorium 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC, United States

    Join us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.

    Free
  • January 2023 Open Mic Night

    Online - Facebook Live

    Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Facebook Live in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.

    Free
  • An Evening with Beth M. Howard, Author of World Piece

    The Rhett House Inn 1009 Craven St., Beaufort, SC, United States

    THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT. Please sign up for the waiting list to be contacted if there is a cancelation. Thank you for your interest! The Pat Conroy Literary Center and The Rhett House Inn will host an evening of pie and stories with Beth M. Howard, author of World Piece: A Pie Baker's Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding.

    $25
  • Workshop: Creating Your Writing Practice

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    UPDATE: This workshop is now Sold Out. Four award-winning novelists--Mindy Friddle, Rebecca T. Godwin, J.C. Sasser, and Michel Stone--will share their instructive insights on how to cultivate resilience, stoke your creativity, and find success as a writer.

    $45
  • An Evening of Poetry with Monica Lee Weatherly

    Sandies 711 Bladen St., Beaufort, SC, United States

    Weatherly will be reading from her poetry at Sandies at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce (711 Bladen St.) on Friday, February 3, at 5:30 p.m.

    Free
  • Workshop: Narrative Poetry & the Oral Tradition of Storytelling with Monica Lee Weatherly

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    Narrative Poetry and the Oral Tradition of Storytelling, with Monica Lee Weatherly, explores the art of storytelling through verse. In this workshop, participants of all experience levels are invited to learn the history of narrative poetry and develop skills to create poetry that combines the rhythmical qualities of language with the traditional elements of a story including, character, plot, structure and theme.

    $45
  • February 2023 Open Mic Night

    Sandies 711 Bladen St., Beaufort, SC, United States

    Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, the South Carolina Writers Association and Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce.

    Free
  • Book Launch for Lynn Seldon’s Novel Carolina’s Ring

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a public drop-in launch event for Seldon’s new novel, Carolina’s Ring, on Wednesday, February 15, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., at 601 Bladen St., in downtown Beaufort.

    Free
  • Workshop: More Than Just a Backdrop with Anthony Grooms

    Online - ZOOM

    In this seminar and workshop, participants will discuss setting in prose fiction, including its importance in establishing “place,” its integration into scene, and its support of characterization and theme.

    $45
  • An Evening of Art and Poetry with Midori Yamamura and Luis H. Francia

    Beaufort Arts Council - Beaufort, SC 921 Ribaut Road, Bldg. 1, Beaufort, SC, United States

    The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and Beaufort Arts Council will host art historian Midori Yamamura, speaking on Yoko Ono’s Painting to Hammer a Nail (1966) and poet Luis H. Francia, reading from his newest collection Thorn Grass (2021).

    Free
  • Workshop: Stop Making Sense! with Luis H. Francia

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    Taking its title from a Talking Heads song, this two-hour workshop uses verbal play, emphasizing lyricism and non-narrative technique. As in jazz, a lyrical poem riffs on the verbal energy of its initial lines to evolve towards a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

    $45
  • Workshop: Writing as Spiritual Practice with Valerie Sayers

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    This workshop will explore a broad range of writers, from Thicht Nhat Hahn to San Juan de la Cruz to Toni Morrison, whose writing has been anchored by their belief in (or search for) the Divine.

    $45
  • Workshop: Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson

    Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

    This workshop is now sold out. Our thanks to everyone who registered in advance. Led by an award-winning memoirist and novelist, this workshop is for those who want to put in writing their cache of family legends or happenings, and for those who want to assist their parents or relatives or friends in doing just that. A great holiday gift for a loved one!

    $45
  • An Evening with NYT Bestselling Novelist De’Shawn Charles Winslow

    NeverMore Books 910 Port Republic St, Beaufort, SC, United States

    As a free event of the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s seventh annual March Forth, the Conroy Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with New York Times bestselling novelist De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of the newly published Decent People, in conversation with Jonathan Haupt.

    Free
  • 7th Annual March Forth

    Penn Center 16 Penn Center Circle West, St. Helena Island, SC, United States

    Our Conroy Center's seventh annual March Forth will be held on Saturday, March 4, and Sunday, March 5, with a special preview event the evening of Friday, March 3.

    $30