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SUMMARY:August 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, August 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Jessica Goody\, author of Phoenix: Transformation Poems. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, August 8\, 2024 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:\nJessica Goody is the award-winning author of Defense Mechanisms (Phosphene Publishing\, 2016) and Phoenix: Transformation Poems (CW Books\, 2019). Her writing has appeared in over one hundred publications\, including The Wallace Stevens Journal\, Reader’s Digest\, Phantom Drift\, The High Window\, Bird’s Thumb\, The Centrifugal Eye\, Really System\, Along Southern Roads\, Event Horizon\, The Dime Show Review\, Chicken Soup for the Soul\, The Seventh Wave\, Third Wednesday\, The MacGuffin\, Harbinger Asylum\, and The Maine Review. \nDefense Mechanisms was chosen as a “Power Read” by Hilton Head Monthly\, a Book of the Month by The Creativity Webzine\, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 North Street Book Prize. Jessica facilitated poetry slams and taught writing courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USCB. She contributed poetry to the stage productions Womanhood and A Voyage of Poetic Discovery for the Sun City Community Theatre and CoronaVox: Stories from the Front for the Phamaly Theatre Company. \nA freelance journalist\, she has been a contributing writer for Hilton Head Monthly\, The Bluffton Sun\, SunSations\, Local Life and Bluffton Today. Jessica is the winner of the 2016 Magnets and Ladders Poetry Prize. Her poem “Beachcombing” was recently added to the Hilton Head Poetry Trail. \n“Phoenix: Transformation Poems is a rich triumph and marks its author\, once again\, as an artist whose work should be followed closely by those interested in the forces shaping the future of American poetry.”–Harvey Trabb\, author of September 19 \n“This is strong poetic work.”—Bill Newby\, author of Passing Through \n“Jessica Goody excels in description\, pulling in readers with her use of words to capture the senses.”–Harvee Lau\, Book Dilettante \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/august-2024-open-mic-night/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open Mic Night\, Featuring Jessica Goody\, Author of Phoenix: Transformation Poems
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, August 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Jessica Goody\, author of Phoenix: Transformation Poems. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nInterested in reading as part of Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. \nAbout Our Featured Writer\nJessica Goody is the award-winning author of Defense Mechanisms (Phosphene Publishing\, 2016) and Phoenix: Transformation Poems (CW Books\, 2019). Her writing has appeared in over one hundred publications\, including The Wallace Stevens Journal\, Reader’s Digest\, Phantom Drift\, The High Window\, Bird’s Thumb\, The Centrifugal Eye\, Really System\, Along Southern Roads\, Event Horizon\, The Dime Show Review\, Chicken Soup for the Soul\, The Seventh Wave\, Third Wednesday\, The MacGuffin\, Harbinger Asylum\, and The Maine Review. Defense Mechanisms was chosen as a “Power Read” by Hilton Head Monthly\, a Book of the Month by The Creativity Webzine\, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 North Street Book Prize. Jessica facilitated poetry slams and taught writing courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at USCB. She contributed poetry to the stage productions Womanhood and A Voyage of Poetic Discovery for the Sun City Community Theatre and CoronaVox: Stories from the Front for the Phamaly Theatre Company. A freelance journalist\, she has been a contributing writer for Hilton Head Monthly\, The Bluffton Sun\, SunSations\, Local Life and Bluffton Today. Jessica is the winner of the 2016 Magnets and Ladders Poetry Prize. Her poem “Beachcombing” was recently added to the Hilton Head Poetry Trail. \n“Phoenix: Transformation Poems is a rich triumph and marks its author\, once again\, as an artist whose work should be followed closely by those interested in the forces shaping the future of American poetry.”–Harvey Trabb\, author of September 19 \n“This is strong poetic work.”—Bill Newby\, author of Passing Through \n“Jessica Goody excels in description\, pulling in readers with her use of words to capture the senses.”–Harvee Lau\, Book Dilettante
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/virtual-open-mic-night-featuring-jessica-goody-author-of-phoenix-transformation-poems/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Photographic Prompts Led by Amber Wheeler Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWednesday August 14\, 2024 · 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Zoom \nAuthor Donna Baier Stein said that writers can use photography to “expand… meaning—not in terms of enlarging [an] original work\, but in terms of offering more possibilities.” \nIn this workshop\, Expose & Compose: Photographic Prompts led by Amber Wheeler Bacon\, we use a combination of professional and amateur photography\, including our own family photos\, in conversation with poems and short prose to generate creative new work. We’ll use the unconscious subtexts of these photos\, the befores and afters\, and the memories they evoke. We’ll also take a look at the objective properties of the photographs\, including composition and the objects within them to inspire us. \nThe workshop will include 4 prompts\, so come to this class ready to write. What creative possibilities are lying in wait in these photographs? Sign up and find out! All genres welcome! \nThis virtual workshop will be held via Zoom on August 14\, 6:00-8:00 p.m.\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nAmber Wheeler Bacon is a writer and teacher whose work has appeared in Crazyhorse\, Ecotone\, Epiphany\, Five Points\, Prairie Schooner and Witness. You can find her writing online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. She’s the recipient of the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a 2021 Bread Loaf scholarship. She received the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction\, a 2023 Prairie Schooner Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize\, nominated by Ecotone Magazine. \nAmber has an MFA from Bennington College and teaches English at Coastal Carolina University. She’s been a fiction editor at Four Way Review\, Managing Editor for South Carolina Writers Association publications and a daily editor at the Southern Review of Books. She lives by the beach in South Carolina and is represented by Amy Bishop-Wycisk at Trellis Literary Management. \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.
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SUMMARY:Expose & Compose: Photographic Prompts\, Workshop Led by Amber Wheeler Bacon
DESCRIPTION:Author Donna Baier Stein said that writers can use photography to “expand… meaning—not in terms of enlarging [an] original work\, but in terms of offering more possibilities.” In this workshop\, we use a combination of professional and amateur photography\, including our own family photos\, in conversation with poems and short prose to generate creative new work. We’ll use the unconscious subtexts of these photos\, the befores and afters\, and the memories they evoke. We’ll also take a look at the objective properties of the photographs\, including composition and the objects within them to inspire us. The workshop will include 4 prompts\, so come to this class ready to write. What creative possibilities are lying in wait in these photographs? Sign up and find out! All genres welcome! \nThis virtual workshop will be held via Zoom on August 14\, 6:00-8:00 p.m.\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $45/person. \nRegister in advance at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nABOUT OUR INSTRUCTOR:\nAmber Wheeler Bacon is a writer and teacher whose work has appeared in Crazyhorse\, Ecotone\, Epiphany\, Five Points\, Prairie Schooner and Witness. You can find her writing online at Ploughshares and CRAFT. She’s the recipient of the 2018 Breakout Writers Prize sponsored by The Author’s Guild and a 2021 Bread Loaf scholarship. She received the 2022 Lit/South Award for flash fiction\, a 2023 Prairie Schooner Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Chautauqua Janus Prize\, nominated by Ecotone Magazine. Amber has an MFA from Bennington College and teaches English at Coastal Carolina University. She’s been a fiction editor at Four Way Review\, Managing Editor for South Carolina Writers Association publications and a daily editor at the Southern Review of Books. She lives by the beach in South Carolina and is represented by Amy Bishop-Wycisk at Trellis Literary Management.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/expose-compose-photographic-prompts-workshop-led-by-amber-wheeler-bacon/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Zackary Vernon\, Author of Our Bodies Electric
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Zackary Vernon\, author of Our Bodies Electric\, on Friday\, August 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 in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nAbout the Book and Author:\nTormented by his religious family and the broader conservative community of Pawley’s Island\, South Carolina\, fourteen-year-old Josh struggles with the pressure to conform to their puritanical standards. As he embarks upon his high school years\, Josh meets a supportive cast of eccentric small-town characters\, falls in love with his classmate\, becomes obsessed with David Bowie\, and fumbles in his attempts to make his own thongs. But it’s when his elderly neighbor gives him a copy of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” that he begins to understand his own sexuality. Our Bodies Electric is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the exuberance of youth\, the individual quest for sexual identity\, and the joy of finding connections in the most unexpected of places. \n“In this spirited coming-of-age novel\, Zack Vernon vividly renders Josh and his fellow middle-school misfits as they seek understanding and acceptance in a world that wishes only to trap them into a stifling conformity. Our Bodies Electric is poignant and comic\, and Vernon’s linking Walt Whitman’s celebration of indi-viduality to the characters adds to the novel’s pleasures.”—Ron Rash\, author of The Caretaker\, Serena\, and In the Valley \n“I haven’t heard music so sweet and heartfelt since I first read Lewis Nordan. Imagine a novel that sings like a love-drunk cross between The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Breakfast Club. Now imagine it set in the sweltering heat of lowcountry South Carolina. Now imagine it told in the spirit of Walt Whitman. Now imagine that book in your hands.”—Mark Powell\, Hurricane Season and The Late Rebellion \nZackary Vernon is a writer and scholar based in Boone\, North Carolina. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals\, including The Bitter Southerner\, Carolina Quarterly\, and Southern Cultures\, and he received the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review. He is currently an Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-zackary-vernon-author-of-our-bodies-electric-2/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Zackary Vernon\, author of Our Bodies Electric
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 23\, 2024 – 5:30-7:00 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 evening with novelist Zackary Vernon\, author of Our Bodies Electric\, on Friday\, August 23\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). \nFree and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Our Bodies Electric\nTormented by his religious family and the broader conservative community of Pawley’s Island\, South Carolina\, fourteen-year-old Josh struggles with the pressure to conform to their puritanical standards. As he embarks upon his high school years\, Josh meets a supportive cast of eccentric small-town characters\, falls in love with his classmate\, becomes obsessed with David Bowie\, and fumbles in his attempts to make his own thongs. But it’s when his elderly neighbor gives him a copy of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” that he begins to understand his own sexuality. Our Bodies Electric is a coming-of-age story that celebrates the exuberance of youth\, the individual quest for sexual identity\, and the joy of finding connections in the most unexpected of places. \n“In this spirited coming-of-age novel\, Zack Vernon vividly renders Josh and his fellow middle-school misfits as they seek understanding and acceptance in a world that wishes only to trap them into a stifling conformity. Our Bodies Electric is poignant and comic\, and Vernon’s linking Walt Whitman’s celebration of indi-viduality to the characters adds to the novel’s pleasures.”—Ron Rash\, author of The Caretaker\, Serena\, and In the Valley \n“I haven’t heard music so sweet and heartfelt since I first read Lewis Nordan. Imagine a novel that sings like a love-drunk cross between The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Breakfast Club. Now imagine it set in the sweltering heat of lowcountry South Carolina. Now imagine it told in the spirit of Walt Whitman. Now imagine that book in your hands.”—Mark Powell\, Hurricane Season and The Late Rebellion \nAbout the Author \nZackary Vernon is a writer and scholar based in Boone\, North Carolina. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals\, including The Bitter Southerner\, Carolina Quarterly\, and Southern Cultures\, and he received the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review. \nHe is currently an Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University. \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-novelist-zackary-vernon-author-of-our-bodies-electric/
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