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SUMMARY:8th Annual March Forth
DESCRIPTION:Eighth Annual March Forth to Be Held on March 2 & 3 in Port Royal\, Beaufort\, and St. Helena Island \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center’s eighth annual March Forth will be held on Saturday\, March 2\, and Sunday\, March 3. This special event commemorates the anniversary of Pat Conroy’s passing on March 4\, 2016\, with programs on major themes of his writing and teaching life\, including social justice\, inclusivity\, conservation\, education\, and storytelling. \nLearn more and register in advance at Eventbrite \nMarch Forth will include appearances by novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, author of Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize); novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection); naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World; award-winning nature photographer Kelley Luikey; Spring Island Trust executive director Andy Jones; National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman; and the students of DAYLO. \nMarch Forth is hosted this year by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt\, Conroy Center board member Ginger Olszewski\, and Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans. \nFree events will be held at the Port Royal Farmers Market and the Conroy Center on Saturday\, March 2. A ticketed all-day event (including a catered lunch by award-winning caterer and cookbook author Debbi Covington) will be held at Penn Center on St. Helena Island on Sunday\, March 3. Books by presenting authors will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. \nMarch Forth is presented in collaboration between the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and Penn Center\, NeverMore Books\, Lowcountry Pride\, the Port Royal Farmers Market\, the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park\, the Rhett House Inn\, MarshSong Cottage\, Catering by Debbi Covington\, and DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, and sponsored in part by the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. \n~SCHEDULE OF EVENTS~\nTEDDY BEAR PICNIC READ-ALOUD and READ WITH A RANGER at the PORT ROYAL FARMERS MARKET on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n9:30-Noon. Student volunteers from local chapters of DAYLO will be reading children’s picture books to young readers and their families\, with light snacks provided. DAYLO students will be joined by National Park Service Ranger Katherine Freeman from the Reconstruction Era National Historic Park for a special read-aloud\, Read with a Ranger. This free event will be held near the gazebo at the Port Royal Farmers Market (1615 Ribaut Rd\, Port Royal). No registration needed. \nAN AFTERNOON WITH JEFFREY DALE LOFTON\, AUTHOR OF RED CLAY SUZIE\, at the CONROY CENTER on SATURDAY\, MARCH 2\n2:00-3:30 p.m. Award-winning writer Jeffrey Dale Lofton will discuss his debut novel Red Clay Suzie (Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize) at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, presented in collaboration with Lowcountry Pride. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited for this free event; please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nTICKETED MARCH FORTH EVENTS at PENN CENTER on SUNDAY\, MARCH 3\n9:30-10:00 a.m. Attendee check-in.\n10:00-11:30 a.m. Birding and nature walk of Penn Center led by naturalist and Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute executive director Andy Jones.\n11:30 to Noon. Catered lunch by Debbi Covington. (Register in advance by February 26 for lunch. Day-of registrations may be possible without lunch.)\nNoon to 1:00 p.m. Novelist\, musician\, and educator Brendan Slocumb\, author of Symphony of Secrets and The Violin Conspiracy (A Good Morning America Book Club Selection) in conversation with Conroy Center Executive Director Jonathan Haupt\, presented with the generous support of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club.\n1:00 to 1:20 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n1:20 to 2:20 p.m. Naturalist and biographer Patrick Dean\, author of Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World\, in conversation with Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans.\n2:20-2:40 p.m. Book signing break with NeverMore Books.\n2:40-3:40 p.m. A special slideshow presentation by award-winning nature photographer\, naturalist\, and educator Kelley Luikey.\n3:40-4:00 p.m. Closing remarks. \n~ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS~\nPatrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher\, a political media director\, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. An avid trail-runner\, paddler\, and mountain-biker\, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Dean is the author of A Window to Heaven\, about the summit of Denali\, and Nature’s Messenger: Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World. \n  \nDr. Andy Jones\, executive director of the Spring Island Trust and Lowcountry Institute\, is a lifelong naturalist\, with a passion for the biodiversity of the Southeast. He studied biological sciences at the University of Tennessee\, and completed his PhD on the evolutionary history of Philippine birds at the University of Minnesota. From 2006 until early 2022\, he served curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He has also served as a board member and on the research committee of Black Swamp Bird Observatory\, as a board member of Winous Point Marsh Conservancy\, and as Secretary of the American Ornithological Society. He has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society for his contributions to ornithology. \nJeffrey Dale Lofton is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress in Washington\, D.C. A veteran stage actor turned debut novelist\, he is the author of Red Clay Suzie\, written through his personal lens growing up an outsider figuring out life and love in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. The novel was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize). \n  \nKelley Luikey is an award-winning photographer\, educator\, and Master Naturalist. Her photography consistently ranks in the Top 100 Images for national and international competitions such as the National Audobon Society and North American Nature Photographers Association. Her work hangs in private homes and offices across the country\, has appeared in numerous publications–including National Audubon Society magazine and the cover of Garden and Gun magazine. Through her work\, she hopes to inspire others to appreciate and preserve the beauty of the Lowcountry. Luikey resides in Port Royal with her husband and two children. She currently exhibits at Pluff Mudd Art in Bluffton and MacDonald Marketplace in Beaufort. \nBrendan Slocumb is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a degree in music education\, concentrations on Violin and Viola. For the past two decades\, he has been a public and private school music educator from kindergarten through twelfth grade\, teaching general music\, orchestra\, and guitar ensembles. His students were often chosen for district and regional orchestras. In 2005\, Brendan was named Teacher of the Year for Robert E. Lee High School; he has been named to Who’s Who of American teachers\, and is a Nobel Teacher of distinction. Brendan also serves as an educational consultant for the Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C. He is the author of two novels: The Violin Conspiracy (a selection of the Good Morning America Book Club) and the recently released Symphony of Secrets.
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SUMMARY:Afternoon with award-winning novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 2\, 2024 – 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 Center\, in collaboration with Lowcountry Pride\, will host an afternoon with award-winning novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, author of Red Clay Suzie\, Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize\, on Saturday\, March 2\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited. Please call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Red Clay Suzie\n“Lofton’s descriptive prose is spellbinding; having never been to Georgia myself\, I feel like I now know exactly what the air tastes like and how the red clay feels beneath my fingers in the garden. Taken together\, the author has created an almost impressionist masterpiece of inner machinations and sensory experiences that leave you pleasantly dazed and content when you finally turn the last page.”—San Francisco Book Review \n“Make a glass of sweet tea\, pull up a porch chair\, and a cloth to mop your brow. Red Clay Suzie roots readers in the pacing of the South as Lofton coaxes his people from the heat and the rain and the gardens and the cars. It is a journey of refuge and emergence—helped and hindered by family and friends. Even through the characters’ most painful moments of discovery and loss\, it is an absolute joy to read. Three cheers to Jeffrey Dale Lofton and his stellar debut novel.”—Claire Green\, former President of Parents’ Choice Foundation \nThe coming-of-age story of Philbet\, a gay\, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia\, who battles bullying\, ignorance\, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places. \nFueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes\, and obsessed with cars\, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox\, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time\, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways\, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave. \nAbout Jeffrey Dale Lofton\nJeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia\, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. During those early years he spent many a night trodding the boards of the DC’s theaters and performing arts centers\, including the Kennedy Center\, Signature Theatre\, Woolly Mammoth\, and Studio Theatre. He even scored a few television screen appearances\, including a residuals-rich Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant wisecracked “is the finest work of your career.” \nUltimately he stepped away from acting for other\, more traditional work\, including providing communications counsel to landscape architects and helping war veterans tell their stories to add richness and nuance to historical accounts. At the same time\, he focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science. Today\, he is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \nRed Clay Suzie is his first work of fiction\, written through his personal lens growing up an outsider figuring out life and love in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. \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/afternoon-with-award-winning-novelist-jeffrey-dale-lofton/
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SUMMARY:Afternoon with Dr. Kathleen Corley\, author of the The Magical Place We Call School
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 9\, 2024 – 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 Center will host an afternoon with award-winning educator and Red Cedar Elementary School principal Dr. Kathleen Corley\, author of the The Magical Place We Call School: Creating a Safe Space for Learning and Happiness in a Challenging World. \nFree and open to the public\, this author event will be held on Saturday\, March 9\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited. Please call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout the Book\n“Some day\, a techie will invent a chip that can pre-install 40 years of classroom wisdom into every new teacher or principal. Until then\, we’ve got Dr. Kathleen Corley’s book.”–Lenore Skenazy\, president of Let Grow\, author of Free-Range Kids \n“An often encouraging\, compassionate\, and reasoned approach to running elementary schools.”–Kirkus Reviews \nAt a time when public discourse rages on about what students should or should not be taught\, when books are being banned\, when school shootings fill the news\, and when families are still reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic—here comes The Magical Place We Call School. With its fresh focus on the power and perils of education\, it’s an intentional way of thinking that will intrigue readers everywhere. \nIn her literary debut\, school principal Dr. Kathleen Corley\, a forty-year veteran in elementary education\, writes knowingly and with unique humor and insight about the value of education\, how kids think and learn\, what they need to succeed in and out of school\, and how their home life affects their performance. Plus\, she tackles some of the most daunting societal issues impacting children today\, from bullying to gun violence and beyond. \nDr. Corley reminds us that something extraordinary still occurs in classrooms across America—not just miraculously\, but by design and with tenacity. \nIn The Magical Place We Call School\, Corley shares human interest stories that shed light on what is and isn’t working and provides a calm hand and a much-needed perspective from the front lines of learning. Her deep caring for the children\, educators\, and parents in her midst shines through\, providing a true sense of what she calls “the magic of schools.” It’s a book not to be missed. \nAbout the Authors\nDr. Kathleen Corley is an award-winning educator\, an authority on school culture\, and the charismatic principal at Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton\, S.C. Renowned for her unique communication and management skills\, Corley has a bachelor’s in music education from the University of Illinois\, a master’s in music administration from Chicago Musical College\, Roosevelt University\, and a Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Illinois. \nChicago-born\, Dr. Corley began her career in education as an elementary music teacher and transitioned to education administration to make a wider impact upon student achievement and school culture. She entered the administrative ranks as an assistant principal in Palatine\, Illinois\, then became an elementary school principal in Lynchburg\, Virginia\, Salem Massachusetts\, and Bluffton\, South Carolina. She was the founding principal at three of those schools and has been an educator for over forty years (and still counting). Corley has been an assistant professor at Salem State University and continues to mentor principals. \nGlenn Plaskin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books and his profiles and syndicated columns have appeared in the New York Times\, the Daily News\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Family Circle\, US Weekly\, Ladies Home Journal\, Cosmopolitan\, W\, and Playboy. His TV appearances include The Today Show\, Oprah\, Larry King\, Joan Rivers\, Sally Jessy Raphael\, Geraldo\, and Good Day New York. Plaskin is also a recognized collaborator and ghostwriter for CEOs\, entertainment personalities\, high achievers\, newsmakers\, performing artists\, and public speakers. \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/afternoon-with-dr-kathleen-corley-author-of-the-the-magical-place-we-call-school/
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SUMMARY:March 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, March 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is award-winning poet Evelyn Berry\, author of Grief Slut. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, March 14\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) \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 Grief Slut\n“Grief Slut exposes the paradoxical nature of queer life in the South. Required reading in an age of trans discrimination\, Berry’s lines will serve as balm and bulwark. exposing the joyous heartbreak of rural queerness.”—Sim Kern\, author of The Free People’s Village and Seeds From the Swarm \n“Evelyn Berry’s Grief Slut is a book-length aubade to the genderqueer self and body\, to the South\, to violence and desire and Baja Blast. Grief Slut is a riotously beautiful collection of poems\, a love song to flesh and the experience of too muchness that is oh-so-human\, oh-so-queer\, and oh-so-Southern.”—Han VanderHart\, author of What Pecan Light \nAbout our featured writer:\nEvelyn Berry is a trans\, Southern writer\, editor\, and educator. She’s the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications\, 2023) and Buggery (Bateau Press\, 2020)\, winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize. \nShe’s a recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship\, 2022 Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize\, 2019 Broad River Prize for Prose\, and 2018 Emrys Poetry Prize\, among other honors. Berry has been performing in venues around the country (and world!) for more than ten years. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, South Carolina Review\, Gigantic Sequins\, Raleigh Review\, Taco Bell Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbia\, 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/march-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Foodways in Poetry Led by Jennifer Bartell Boykin
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, March 23\, 2024 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nCollard greens\, okra\, fried chicken\, company chicken\, pileau (pronounced perlo)\, sweet tea\, pound cake and more appear throughout my poetry. Each dish is important to my experiences with my family and my community. Think of the dishes that are staples for you. What are the memories you have with that food? How do you feel while eating it? Who are you with? The tastes\, textures\, and smells are the menu for memory\, emotion\, and therefore poetry. \nIn this workshop\, we will explore the connections between food\, memory\, and poetry. Come with 1-2 dishes and memories associated with them in mind. If you have a family recipe you’d like to explore\, bring that too. \nIn addition to teaching her workshop\, Bartell Boykin will also be reading from and discussing her new collection of poems at the Conroy Center from 5:00-6:30 p.m. that same evening. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nSaturday\, March 23\, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nPoet Laureate of Columbia\, South Carolina\, and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the author of Traveling Mercy (from Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian\, Callaloo\, the Raleigh Review\, kinfolks: a journal of black expression\, the museum of americana: a literary review\, and Scalawag. \nBartell Boykin is the recipient of fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole. She teaches creative writing and English dual-enrollment courses at Spring Valley High School in Columbia\, South Carolina\, where she was named the 2019–20 Teacher of the Year. She is also an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and an Augusta Baker Scholar at the University of South Carolina’s School of Information Science\, where she is pursuing her master of library and information science degree. Bartell Boykin was born and raised in Bluefield\, a Black community in Johnsonville\, South Carolina. \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/workshop-foodways-in-poetry-led-by-jennifer-bartell-boykin/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Columbia City Poet Laureate Jennifer Bartell Boykin
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 23\, 2024 · 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST\nFree\nPlease call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Columbia City Poet Laureate Jennifer Bartell Boykin\, author of the debut poetry collection Traveling Mercy\, on Saturday\, March 23\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited. Please call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nBoykin will also be teaching a poetry writing workshop earlier that same afternoon\, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. To learn more and register for the workshop\, please visit https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT THE BOOK\nTraveling Mercy navigates the journeys of a Black woman from rural South Carolina. Her travels transcend time as she encounters history\, nature\, and grief. She sits with the eldest residents before her birth\, with the first ancestor who came to these shores\, with her parents through their marriage\, and through her own loneliness in the wake of their deaths. Planting as she harvests\, this book is a lament and a love story to survival. \n“After reading a single magnificent poem in Traveling Mercy\, “the sapling in your chest floods with too much water and light.” Read a handful of poems\, and find yourself on the poet’s ferry crossing the river “between thens and tomorrows.” Every magical\, existential line is an iteration of Jennifer Bartell’s dexterous poetics. This accomplished debut elegizes human loss while celebrating the resilience that persists through witness and language. Traveling Mercy is a dazzling first book.”–National Book Award-Winning Poet Terrance Hayes \n“Bartell’s Traveling Mercy is such an intimate history of a Black girl raised by Black women\, raised by church fans and magnolia memories\, dream-hymns of Black people pushing through mud and disease and held together by traditions. This rich collection of poems\, by a Black girl who knows how and why to style okra seeds in her hair\, spills with fat oysters and a community’s petrified pounded grace. Bartell assures she will never give us one chance to hold our breath\, as we jump into this never-ending deep end of blazing life\, therefore\, prepare to be drenched.”– National Book Award-Winning Poet Nikky Finney \nAbout our writer: \nPoet Laureate of Columbia\, South Carolina\, and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the author of Traveling Mercy (from Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian\, Callaloo\, the Raleigh Review\, kinfolks: a journal of black expression\, the museum of americana: a literary review\, and Scalawag. \nBartell Boykin is the recipient of fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole. She teaches creative writing and English dual-enrollment courses at Spring Valley High School in Columbia\, South Carolina\, where she was named the 2019–20 Teacher of the Year. She is also an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and an Augusta Baker Scholar at the University of South Carolina’s School of Information Science\, where she is pursuing her master of library and information science degree. Bartell Boykin was born and raised in Bluefield\, a Black community in Johnsonville\, South Carolina. \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-columbia-city-poet-laureate-jennifer-bartell-boykin/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Publishing Pursuits: Traditional or Indie? Led by Kim Poovey
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWednesday\, March 27\, 2024 · 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nYou’ve finished your manuscript and are ready to share it with the world! The question is whether to go with a traditional publisher or try your hand at independent (Indie) publishing. There are pros and cons to both. Learn the differences between traditional\, hybrid\, and Indie publishing and how to decide which is the best option for your manuscript. \nThis workshop will cover:\n*Aspects of traditional publishing with large and small presses\, hybrid publishing\, and Indie publishing\n*The pros and cons of traditional and Indie publishing\n*Questions you need to ask when considering traditional or hybrid publishing\n*The ins and outs of Indie publishing \nWhat this workshop does not cover:\n*How to write a query letter\n*How to pitch to agents \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nKim Poovey is an author of historical fiction and hauntings. She began her writing career with a traditional publishing house for her first two novels\, Truer Words and Through Button Eyes: Memoirs of an Edwardian Teddy Bear. In 2017\, she switched to Indie publishing and hasn’t looked back. Under her imprint\, Dickens Ghost Publishing\, LLC\, Kim has produced five books; a collection of short stories\, the first three novels in her Dreamist series about a woman who can communicate with the dead in her dreams\, and Shadows of the Moss\, book one in a historical fiction trilogy. \nKim has presented for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) through USCB as well as presenting at Camp Conroy for the past two summers. In addition\, Kim has written for several magazines\, including Beaufort Lifestyle\, Bluffton Breeze\, Citizen’s Companion\, and the Civil War Times. When not writing\, Kim is a school psychologist who lives with her husband and fur babies in a haunted 1890s cottage in the Lowcountry. \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/workshop-publishing-pursuits-traditional-or-indie-led-by-kim-poovey/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy Book Club: The Death of Santini
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 28\, 2024 – 6:30-7:30 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. \nDiscussions will be held at The Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nRegister at Eventbrite \nJanuary 25: South of Broad\nFebruary 21: My Reading Life\nMarch 28: The Death of Santini\nApril 25: A Lowcountry Heart \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-death-of-santini/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club Discussion
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