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The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an in-person visit with debut novelist Gervais Hagerty, author In Polite Company, on September 28, at 6:00 p.m. Gervais will be introduced by Cassandra King Conroy, best-selling author and honorary chair of the nonprofit Conroy Center.
Whether realistic or fantastic, a great setting serves as more than a backdrop to the story. We’ll look at examples and explore strategies to incorporate descriptions and details that will bring your fictional world to life.
In this free, public presentation, explore Conroy’s spiritual and humanistic faith as reflected in his turbulent life and bestselling books—from his Roman Catholic upbringing to The Citadel’s honor code to themes of spirituality in his writings to his life of service as a mentor to his fellow writers to his connections to his “second church,” First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a virtual evening with Deborah J. Cohan, author of the memoir Welcome to Wherever We Are on Tuesday, October 5, at 6:00 p.m.
The Abbeville County Public Library will host a free public book club discussion of Pat Conroy's 1972 teaching memoir The Water Is Wide, led by Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center.
Join us online on Zoom for a guided tour of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, S.C., led by executive director Jonathan Haupt. This virtual tour will is presented in partnership with the Southeastern Writers Association and will offer insights and inspirations from the arc of Pat Conroy's storied life as an author and as a lifelong mentor to his fellow writers.
Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is hosted by Brooke McKinney and presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association.
As the first Authors in Celebration of Literacy program, the Palmetto Literacy Council will host Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt for a public presentation, Pat Conroy's Reverence for Teaching, on Saturday, October 16, at 11:00 a.m.
This workshop will create safe space and participants will be guided into the spaciousness of their imagination, encouraging writing from the soul. Through the use of questions, stories, images, word play & drawings/doodles we will write lists, topics, poems of all styles, titles, essays – or at least begin them.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning poets Elizabeth Robin and Ann-Chadwell Humphries. Both writers will be presenting and teaching at the 6th annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival on November 6.
Join us online on Zoom for a guided tour of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, S.C., led by executive director Jonathan Haupt. Presented in partnership with the Friends of South Carolina Libraries (FOSCL), this National Friends of the Library Week special program will include stories of Pat Conroy’s formative relationships with public and academic libraries, and his own personal library, told within the context of a tour of the new Conroy Center’s galleries and exhibits.
NeverMore Books and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with New York Times bestselling horror novelist Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group and The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires--in conversation with the Conroy Center's Holland Perryman and Jonathan Haupt.
This workshop will create safe space and participants will be guided into the spaciousness of their imagination, encouraging writing from the soul. Through the use of questions, stories, images, word play & drawings/doodles we will write lists, topics, poems of all styles, titles, essays – or at least begin them.