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SUMMARY:An Evening with Ruth P. Watson\, Author of A Right Worthy Woman
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 7\, 2023 – 5:00-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Eventbrite\nLocation: Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St. \n“A Right Worthy Woman takes its place alongside novels such as Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s Trouble the Water\, illuminating African-American heroes born in strife who find the strength\, fortitude\, and love to lead lives touched by grace.”–Historical Fiction Review \nIn 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. A reception will follow the author’s presentation\, with books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Free and open to the public\, advance registration is requested. This event will be held at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St.\, on Friday\, July 7\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. \nRegister in advance here. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT A Right Worthy Woman\nIn the vein of The Engineer’s Wife and Carolina Built\, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia’s Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker\, the daughter of a formerly enslaved woman who became the first Black woman to establish and preside over a bank in the United States. \nMaggie Lena Walker was ambitious and unafraid. Her childhood in 19th-century Virginia helping her mother with her laundry service opened her eyes to the overwhelming discrepancy between the Black residents and her mother’s affluent white clients. She vowed to not only secure the same kind of home and finery for herself\, but she would also help others in her community achieve the same. \nWith her single-minded determination\, Maggie buckled down and went from schoolteacher to secretary-treasurer of the Independent Order of St. Luke\, founder of a newspaper\, a bank\, and a department store where Black customers were treated with respect. With the help of influential friends like W.E.B. DuBois and Mary McLeod\, she revolutionized Richmond in ways that are still felt today. Now\, her rich\, full story is revealed in this stirring and intimate novel. \n“A Right Worthy Woman is a remarkable and stirring novel\, a story destined to be told. Ruth P. Watson brings to vivid life a woman who changed history\, a woman both determined and fascinating\, a woman named Maggie Lena Walker. From the heartbreaking opening line to the closing scene\, the reader is on a transformational journey as Maggie Lena Walker revolutionizes both Richmond\, Virginia and women’s history. Inspiring and rich with detail\, this is your next book club read.” — Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times bestselling author \n“History that’s never been told is being shared by master storyteller Ruth Watson in such an epic way.” — Brenda Jackson\, New York Times bestselling author \n“It is my distinct honor and pleasure to support this inspiring novel based on the life and times of Maggie Lena Walker\, who was one of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority esteemed honorary members\, inducted into our beloved organization in 1926.” — Dr. Valerie Hollingsworth Baker\, 25th International Centennial President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nRuth P. Watson is the author of Blackberry Days of Summer\, An Elderberry Fall\, Cranberry Winter\, and Strawberry Spring. A musical stage play\, “Blackberry Daze”\, is based on her debut novel. \nShe is the recipient of the Caversham Fellowship\, an artist and writer’s residency in KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa\, where she published her first children’s book in Zulu\, Our Secret Bond. She is a freelance writer and member of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators\, and has written for Upscale\, Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and other publications. She is an adjunct professor and project manager\, who lives with family in Atlanta\, Georgia. https://www.ruthpwatson.com/ \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-ruth-p-watson-author-of-a-right-worthy-woman/
LOCATION:Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Beatriz Williams
DESCRIPTION:Sunday July 9\, 2023 – 2:00-3:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe 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). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nAbout The Beach at Summerly\nNew York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read\, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. \nJune 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war\, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly\, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop\, daughter of Summerly’s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island’s settlers\, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother\, Olive traveled the world\, married fascinating men\, and involved herself in political causes. She’s also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons\, Amory and Shep\, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic history. \nAs the summer wears on\, Emilia develops a deep rapport with Olive\, who urges her to leave the island for a life of adventure\, while romance blossoms with the sturdy and honorable Shep. But the heady promise of Peabody patronage is blown apart by the arrival of Sumner Fox\, an FBI agent who demands Emilia’s help to capture a Soviet agent who’s transmitting vital intelligence on the West’s atomic weapon program from somewhere inside the Summerly estate. \nApril 1954. Eight years later\, Summerly is boarded up and Emilia has rebuilt her shattered life as a professor at Wellesley College\, when shocking news arrives from Washington—the traitor she helped convict is about to be swapped for an American spy imprisoned in the Soviet Union\, but with a mysterious condition only Emilia can fulfill. A reluctant Emilia is summoned to CIA headquarters\, where she’s forced to confront the harrowing consequences of her actions that fateful summer\, and a choice that could destroy the Peabody family—and Emilia’s chance for redemption—all over again. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBeatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels\, including Her Last Flight\, The Summer Wives\, and The Golden Hour\, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. \nA native of Seattle\, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-afternoon-with-beatriz-williams/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:July 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for July is Robert J. Dreseen\, author of the poetry collection I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 13\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org \nWe want to build our community of writers and an appreciation for the art and talent of new\, emerging\, and long-time writers. Thank you for supporting this partnership! \nEvent Facebook Page \nAbout our featured writer:\nRobert J. Dreesen is a publisher of scholarly books in New York City\, where he has lived for the past thirty years. He is the author of 20th Century Tool Shed\, a poetry collection. Dreesen returns to Nebraska every fall for an annual trip up the Missouri River with his brothers-in-bottle called “I Ain’t Lewis and You Ain’t Clark.” \n“The poems in Robert Dreesen’s I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit may be set in a truck stop bar but its ‘cricks’ are deep\, concealing the poet’s family’s loving reticence—‘for anything declared might be taken away’—with raucous living. Dreesen\, for whom two pianos in the room resembled ‘two horses in the pasture resting heads on one another’s rumps\,’ carries this blank verse tribute to his father from ‘engine whisperers’ to ‘a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.’ I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit tells a sad\, sure story with a wallop of an ending.”—Terese Svoboda\, author of Black Glasses Like Clark Kent \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/july-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Kerry Peresta\, Author of The Torching
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday July 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nBeaufort 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). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066. \nABOUT The Torching\n“Kerry Peresta has done it again\, giving us Olivia Callahan\, a complex heroine\, who is strong\, yet vulnerable\, clear-headed one moment\, lost in the terrifying fog of traumatic brain injury the next. In THE TORCHING\, we get to ride along as Olivia battles to rebuild\, literally and figuratively\, her life and her home\, while her murky past continues to throw shadows over her present and future. Tightly written\, this one’s a heart-pounding page-turner from beginning to end.”–Annette Dashofy\, award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the Zoe Cham \nThree years ago\, Olivia Callahan endured an assault that resulted in a devastating brain injury. She survived\, but she couldn’t remember anything about her life or who she was. Now\, she’s determined to build a bridge between the past she lost and the life she must reclaim. \nWhen Olivia crosses paths with Private Investigator Tom Stark\, she is drawn to the investigative field\, and becomes his intern. She finds a heavily redacted\, forty-five-year-old file locked in his desk drawer that mentions her mother as a young woman. Why had her mentor hidden the file from her\, and why had he never mentioned a case involving her mother? \nAs Olivia moves forward with her fledgling career\, a string of mysterious fires moves through the community\, puzzling the Baltimore Arson Investigative Unit. One of the fires strikes Olivia’s beloved farmhouse in rural Maryland. Now\, in addition to uncovering the secrets bound within the redacted file\, she becomes convinced that the fires happening around the area are disturbing calling cards…and they’re meant for her. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKerry Peresta is the author of the Olivia Callahan Suspense series. Kerry spent thirty years in advertising as an account manager\, creative director\, copywriter\, and editor. She began writing full-time in 2009 as a newspaper humor columnist. \nHer books feature strong\, quirky\, women who wrestle with personal choices that result in dangerous and often bizarre situations. She is a member of Sisters in Crime\, Mystery Writers of America\, South Carolina Writers Association\, Island Writers Network\, and a presenter for the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Kerry and her husband live in Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. www.kerryperesta.net. \n  \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-kerry-peresta-author-of-the-torching/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Interiority with Amber Wheeler Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nThursday\, July 20\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. EDT\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nOnline: Zoom \nWhen it comes to writing fiction\, Kurt Vonnegut said to “Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters\, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.” Got it. We can do that. But as we do\, it can become difficult to show readers how characters think and feel about all of these awful things happening in their lives. In first drafts\, “thoughts” and “feelings” can often be written involving the heart and lungs\, focused on heartbeats\, breathing rhythms and all sorts of skipping\, palpitating\, throbbing\, panting\, catching and swallowing. \nIn 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. \nCome to this workshop ready to write\, and maybe laugh at some of the ridiculous clichés we’ve all leaned on in the past. \nThis interactive writers workshop will be held as an online video conference call through Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participating writers after registering. \nThursday\, July 20\, 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Zoom. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nAmber Wheeler Bacon is a writer\, editor and teacher whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Crazyhorse\, Ecotone\, Epiphany\, Five Points\, New Ohio Review\, Post Road\, Prairie Schooner and Witness. You can find her writing online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. \nShe is the recipient of the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a 2021 scholarship from Bread Loaf Environmental. In 2020\, her story collection was a finalist for Hub City Press’s C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize and Moon City Press’s Short Fiction Award. She received the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction. She was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize\, nominated by Ecotone. Amber has an MFA from Bennington College\, teaches at Coastal Carolina University and lives by the beach in South Carolina. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/workshop-interiority-with-amber-wheeler-bacon/
LOCATION:Online – ZOOM
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SUMMARY:Haiku Night Featuring Natasha Akery and Miho Kinnas
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: TUESDAY\, JULY 25\, 2023 AT 7 PM – 8 PM EDT\nCost: Free | Advance registration by July 23 is required to receive the Zoom link and attend. \nThis 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. Both poets will also be reading from their work. This free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThis free virtual event will be hosted on Zoom. Details for joining the video call will be provided to all participants after registering. \nAbout our authors: \nNatasha Akery is a language arts teacher and poet from Charleston\, South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies\, specializing in biblical literature and esoteric traditions. For three years\, she was an editor and a writer for 1:1000\, an online literary journal that published flash fiction paired with photographs. \nShe now devotes her writing practice to haiku with themes of heritage\, motherhood\, and spirituality. You can find her poems on Instagram (@writethreelines)\, on Ello (@writethreelines) and in I Am a Furious Wish: Anthology of Lowcountry Poets\, Vol. 1 published by Free Verse Press. Her first chapbook\, in [the name]\, is a collection of haiku inspired by the desert and biblical stories. It is available through Bottlecap Press. \nOne of the founding instructors for Camp Conroy: Build A Book summer camp\, Miho Kinnas is a Japanese poet and translator. The author of two poetry collections\, Today\, Fish Only and Move Over\, Bird (Math Paper Press)\, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the City University of Hong Kong. \nHer book reviews\, essays\, translations\, and poems in journals and anthologies in Asia and the U.S\, including Best American Poetry 2023\, Quixotica: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press)\, Tokyo Poetry Magazine\, The Petigru Review (2023 Pushcart Nomination)\, andThe Belletrist Magazine (2019 Pushcart Nomination). She teaches haiku/tanka-based poetry workshops locally and virtually. We Eclipse Into the Other Side (Pinyon Publishing)\, written with E. Ethelbert Miller\, is forthcoming. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/haiku-night-featuring-natasha-akery-and-miho-kinnas/
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Lords of Discipline
DESCRIPTION:Thursday July 27\, 2023 – 6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: $10\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite | Limited to 20 participants\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe 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. Book discussions will be held on fourth Thursdays beginning at 6:30 p.m. Limited to 20 participants each month. $10/person. Advance registration required. Participants are expected to read the books and to come prepared to discuss them. Discussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nSCHEDULE \n\nApril 27: The Boo (1970)\nMay 25 The Water Is Wide (1972)\nJune 22: The Great Santini (1976)\nJuly 27: The Lords of Discipline (1980)\n\nFuture discussion dates will be announced this summer\, once the book club is underway. \nRegister at Eventbrite \nABOUT OUR DISCUSSION LEADERS \nDr. Charlene Monahan Spearen received her MFA degree in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of South Carolina. She is currently serving as the Public Relations and Special Projects Coordinator for Penn Center after a successful career in academia at Allen University. She served as the Program Coordinator for the University of South Carolina’s Arts Institute and was the Assistant Director for the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. In addition to her work throughout the Carolinas\, Spearen has been a featured reader and Creative Writing instructor and scholar in County Monaghan and County Mayo\, Ireland. She has published a full-length collection of poems titled A Book of Exquisite Disasters. Her poems have appeared in journals and publications throughout the United States. \nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press\, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy\, named by Garden & Gun magazine as one of “the top ten things to love about the South.” Haupt’s book reviews and author interviews have appeared in the Charleston Post and Courier\, Lowcountry Weekly\, Beaufort Lifestyle\, Savannah Morning News’ Beacon magazine\, Southern Review of Books\, and Southern Writers Magazine’s Suite T blog. He is co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, the recipient of seventeen book awards. He serves on the boards of the Friends of South Carolina Libraries and the South Carolina Academy of Authors. In 2020\, Haupt was recognized with the Doug Marlette Literacy Leadership Award presented by the Pulpwood Queens\, the largest book club in the U.S. \n\nThis program and others like this would not be possible without your financial help for which\, as always\, Pat Conroy Literary Center gratefully thanks you.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-book-club-the-lords-of-discipline/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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