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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
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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/
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