November 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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Beaufort Human Library, Second Edition
Technical College of the Lowcountry - Building 12 Auditorium 104 Reynolds Street, Bldg 12, Beaufort, SC, United StatesThe 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.
Free
Edisto: I Was Born to Be in a Library: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries, presented by Jonathan Haupt
Edisto Beach Civic Center 42 Station Ct, Edisto IslandPat 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.
Free
An Evening of Poetry with Libby Bernardin and Jane Zenger
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur 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.).
Free
Conversation with YA Novelist Kalynn Bayron Nov 2022
Online - ZOOMIn 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.
Free
An Evening with Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo
Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United StatesOur 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.).
Free
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
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