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SUMMARY:Grassroots Marketing for Authors: Workshop Led by Helen P. Bradley
DESCRIPTION:GRASSROOTS MARKETING FOR AUTHORS\nA Writers Workshop Led by Helen P. Bradley\, Author of Breach of Trust \nToday’s social media landscape is more saturated than ever\, making it hard for new writers to stand out\, connect with their target readers\, and sell more books. In this writers workshop\, instructor Helen P. Bradley will share how she promoted her debut novel Breach of Trust on a tight budget by using tried-and-true old school marketing. \nYou’ll learn how to: create community\, find book clubs and events\, write an elevator pitch\, organize a book launch\, create a mailing list\, and more. Even if you’re an introvert and marketing sounds more painful than a sunburn\, you can promote your book to your ideal audience with these authentic\, ethical marketing tools. \nThis workshop is for published authors as well as those still on the writing journey. It’s never too early to think about marketing. Come hang out with other writers and bring something to write with like old school pen and paper or your favorite device. \nLocation and Cost\nThis is an in-person writers workshop\, held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St\, Beaufort). Limited to 15 participants with advance registration required; $50/person. \nAbout Our Instructor\nHelen P. Bradley’s debut novel\, Breach of Trust\, was released in April 2023. It draws from her experiences during twenty-seven years heading a nationally-recognized crime victim advocacy program. It’s about one woman’s fight to protect crime victims and expose corruption within the district attorney’s office that leads her on a harrowing and life-changing journey. \nHelen was nominated for 2024 Georgia Author of the Year for a debut novel. She recently was voted Best Local Author and Breach of Trust Best New Local Book in Connect Savannah’s Best Of contest. More than 100 people attended her book launch and broke all sales records for the bookstore selling her books. In August 2022\, she won first place in NextTribe’s essay contest. The essay about raising her grandson was selected out of a field of 55 entries from across the country. \nFor a decade (pre-Covid) she mentored middle school student writers through the Deep program which was recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama (www.deepcenter.org). She helped young people write their powerful stories and they\, in turn\, inspired her to write hers. \nShe’s written curricula\, essays\, and articles for The National Organization for Victim Assistance\, The National Victim Center\, and the Georgia Victim Assistance Academy. She was a journalist at two daily South Carolina newspapers and has had essays published in The Savannah Anthology\, Savannah Magazine\, The Savannah Morning News\, and Law Enforcement Magazine.After her victim advocacy career\, she started a wedding officiant business\, Savannah Simple Weddings. \nHelen has a degree in English from Clemson University and earned a master’s in public administration from Georgia Southern University. She served as a trainer for the National Organization for Victim Assistance\, The National Victim Center\, and numerous other organizations. She lives in Savannah\, Georgia\, with her husband\, teen grandson\, and an antisocial rescue cat. She enjoys practicing yoga\, gobbling chocolate\, and reading obituaries.
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SUMMARY:Pat Conroy as Nature Writer
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, January 25\, at 3:00-5:00 p.m.\, at Village Social of Habersham\, Pat Conroy Literary Center executive director Jonathan Haupt and poet Tim Conroy will discuss the nature writing of Pat Conroy\, the bestselling author of The Water Is Wide\, The Great Santini\, The Prince of Tides\, and more. From his obscure boyhood poetry to his beloved lyrical adult prose\, Conroy wrote about the beauty of our natural world as both wondrous and perilous\, using the lowcountry not only as a setting but as the central character of his many books. This presentation will highlight representative examples of Conroy’s nature writing from across the span of his writing life\, drawing attention to how Conroy’s relationship with nature is also ultimately a relationship with his deeply felt spiritual and humanistic faith. \n– – –\nBy popular demand\, this program is now being offered twice: January 25 AND 26.\n– – – \nThe $25 registration fee includes the presentation\, refreshments\, and a donation in support of the year-round educational mission of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. Register in advance for this event and others in this series at\nhttps://www.villagesocialhabersham.net/upcoming-events \nAbout Our Presenters\nJonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, the past director of the University of South Carolina Press\, and co-editor of the anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy\, winner of 17 book awards. He is a frequent guest book reviewer for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Charleston Post and Courier. Under Jonathan’s leadership\, the Conroy Center has been recognized as an American Library Association Literary Landmark\, an affiliate of the American Writers Museum\, and winner of the Civitas Award for Tourism Leadership. \nTim Conroy\, the author of the collections Theologies of Terrain and No True Route\, is a poet and retired educator. His work has appeared in Fall Lines\, Blue Mountain Review\, Jasper Magazine\, Marked by the Water\, Sheltered\, Twelve Mile Review\, Poetry on the Comet\, The Post and Courier\, Ukweli: Searching for Healing Truth\, DWG Anthology\, and Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy. In 2022\, he received the Broad River Prize for prose from Fall Lines\, Volume IX. A founding board member of the Pat Conroy Literary Center established in his brother’s honor.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/pat-conroy-as-nature-writer-2/
LOCATION:21A-1 Market Street. Beaufort\, SC 29906
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