Poet Glenis Redmond is a 2022 inductee of the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame) and a 2020 recipient of the South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts. Poet Marlanda Dekine is newly named as the South Carolina Arts Commission Fellow for Spoken Word / Slam Poetry and winner of the 2021 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize.
SC Academy of Authors inductee, Upstate South Carolina poet, and teaching artist Glenis Redmond explores the power of poetry through the legacy of David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved potter-poet from Aiken, South Carolina.
Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
As part of this year's annual Holiday Open House at Grayco (136 Sea Island Parkway, Lady's Island), the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a multi-author book signing. Join us at Grayco from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 10
Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
The second edition of the Beaufort Human Library will be held as a free public event on Sunday, November 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., at the Technical College of the Lowcountry's MacLean Hall (104 Reynolds St, bldg 12, Beaufort, SC), in partnership with TCL, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the Beaufort County Library System, the Storybook Shoppe, the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, and community organizers and volunteers.
Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt will discuss Conroy’s lifelong love of books and libraries—focusing on the roles public libraries, school libraries, and Pat's own personal library played in his writing life.
Our nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening of poetry with Libby Bernardin, author of House in Need of Mooring (Press 53) and Jane Zenger, author of Night Bloomer (Muddy Ford Press) on Tuesday, November 15, at 5:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.).
In this special virtual event of the Bluffton Book Festival, New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron will discuss her YA fantasy novel This Wicked Fate, her highly anticipated sequel to This Poison Heart, in conversation with book reviewers Millie Bennett and Jonathan Haupt, as well as a live in-studio audience of students from Bluffton High School.
Our nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt on Tuesday, November 29, at 6:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.).
Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented on Zoom in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
Join us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.
This 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.
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.
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.
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.
UPDATE: 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.
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.
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.
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.
