April 2024 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
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Evening with novelist Carolyn P. Hartley, author of the Buried Sunshine Series
The Rhett House Inn 1009 Craven St., Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, in collaboration with the award-winning Rhett House Inn, will host an evening with historical novelist Carolyn P. Hartley, author of the Buried Sunshine Series, on Thursday, April 18, at 5:00-7:00 p.m., at the Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St., Beaufort).
$15
Workshop: Grants Make Cents Led by Penny Federspill
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesNeed alone is not enough to win grants. Led by Penny Federspill, Grants Make Cents will provide the basic skills needed to learn the essential elements of successful grant writing. These elements include methods of finding an appropriate grant funder, from your own backyard to paid research data firms.
$25
An Evening with poet Ray McManus
The Rhett House Inn 1009 Craven St., Beaufort, SC, United Stateshe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning poet Ray McManus, author of The Last Saturday in America, on Thursday, April 25, at 5:00 p.m., at the Rhett House Inn's garden (1009 Craven St., Beaufort).
Free
Pat Conroy Book Club: A Lowcountry Heart
The Rhett House Inn 1009 Craven St., Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe 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.
$10
An Evening with Mark Larson, Award-winning Educator and Author
Beaufort Bookstore 2127 Boundary St, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe Beaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Mark Larson, award-winning educator and author of Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation, on Monday, April 29, at 5:00 p.m., at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St, #15, Beaufort).
Free
South Carolina Academy of Authors 2024 Induction – SCAA Fellowship Winners
The Rhett House Inn 1009 Craven St., Beaufort, SC, United StatesSCAA Fellowship Winners reading at the Rhett House Inn Garden (1009 Craven St., Beaufort). Winners not yet announced.
Free
May 2024 Open Mic Night
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur monthly Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
An Afternoon with novelist Caroline Cleveland
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an afternoon with debut novelist Caroline Cleveland, author of When Cicadas Cry, on Saturday, May 11, at 2:00 p.m., at Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Free
An Evening with Mindy Friddle, author of Her Best Self
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesIn partnership with NeverMore Books, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Mindy Friddle, author of Her Best Self, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt
Free
Workshop: Submissions Strategies Led by Amber Wheeler Bacon
Online - ZOOMIn this workshop, Beating the Numbers Game: Submissions Strategies led by Amber Wheeler Bacon, we discuss what it’s like as a literary magazine editor moving through the slush pile: sins we’re willing to forgive, and those we’re not.
$45
Book Signing: Up Here: The Hunting Island Lighthouse and its Lightkeepers
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe Friends of Hunting Island, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, will host a drop-in book signing for the newly published coffee table book, Up Here: The Hunting Island Lighthouse and its Lightkeepers, with authors Theodore Panayotoff and Linda Miller on Saturday, June 8th, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Free
June 2024 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
Book Launch Drop In: Donna Keel Armer author of Moringa: Tree of Life ~ Book 2
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a free public drop-in launch event for Donna Keel Armer’s Moringa: Tree of Life ~ Book 2 in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series. Join us on Saturday, June 15, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 601 Bladen St., in downtown Beaufort.
Free
An Evening with McCracken King Poston Jr., author of Zenith Man
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with McCracken King Poston Jr., author of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom, on Thursday, June 27, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Free
July 2024 Open Mic Night
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur monthly Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
Workshop: Mystifying the Familiar Led by Jo Angela Edwins
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesIn this workshop, we’ll discuss how imaginative unions in poems can lead to insight. We’ll look at poems like Billy Collins’ “Hippos on Holiday” or Heid E. Erdrich’s “Indigenous Elvis at the Airport” to see the effect of the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the unexpected. As a generative exercise, we’ll also do a writing activity to inspire the beginnings of such a poem.
$40
An Evening with Jo Angela Edwins, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Jo Angela Edwins, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee and author of A Dangerous Heaven, on Saturday, July 13, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Free
An Evening with novelist Martha B. Boone, author of Mother Charity
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with retired surgeon turned novelist Martha B. Boone, author of Mother Charity, in conversation with retired FBI Special Agent turned novelist Dana Ridenour, author of the Lexie Montgomery Series, on Thursday, July 25, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Free
Children’s Book Fair 2024
Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion 310 Okatie Hwy, OkatieThe Pat Conroy Literary Center’s annual Lowcountry Children’s Book Fair will be held on Saturday, July 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Port Royal Sound Foundation Weezie Educational Pavilion (310 Okatie Hwy, Okatie). The Maritime Center will also be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and admission is free.
Free