December 2022 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Free
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Book Challenges Forum 2022
Technical College of the Lowcountry - Building 12 Auditorium 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC, United StatesJoin us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.
Free
Workshop: Sticks & Stones: Turning Grief Into Verse with Angelo Geter
Online - ZOOMThis workshop will explore how poetry can transform our relationship with grief by using elegies, language and imagery to relinquish pain, give power and honor our losses.
$45
January 2023 Open Mic Night
Online - Facebook LiveOur 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 StatesTHIS 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 StatesUPDATE: 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 with Award-Winning Novelists Mindy Friddle, Rebecca T. Godwin, J.C. Sasser & Michel Stone
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesUPDATE: This event is now at full capacity. Four award-winning novelists will read from and discuss their work at the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort) on Saturday, January 21, at 5:00 p.m.
Free
An Evening of Poetry with Monica Lee Weatherly
Sandies 711 Bladen St., Beaufort, SC, United StatesWeatherly 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 StatesNarrative 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 StatesOur 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 StatesThe 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 - ZOOMIn 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 StatesThe 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 StatesTaking 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 StatesThis 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 StatesThis 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 StatesAs 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 StatesOur 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
An Evening with Memoirist Donna Keel Armer
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host Donna Keel Armer author of the travel memoir Solo in Solento, on Thursday, March 16, at 5:00 p.m. Donna’s talk, “One Story, Two Books,” will explore her globetrotting experiences as her book was translated into Italian as Un’americana in Salento and she was invited on a recent book tour of Southern Italy and Sicily.
Free
Book Launch: Slack Tide with Nancy Ritter
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur nonprofit Conroy Center is honored to host the book launch for Slack Tide, the Beaufort-based debut novel from Nancy Ritter. This free public drop-in event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort) on Saturday March 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.
Free