The 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.
In 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.
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.
Camp 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.
The 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.
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.
The 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.
In 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.
The 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).
Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Beaufort 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).
In 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.
This 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.
The 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.
Dinah 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
NeverMore 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.
Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center, and the South Carolina Writers Association.
The 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.
The 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.
As 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.