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Virtual Tour of Pat Conroy Literary Center: Born to Be in a Library

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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.

Free
evening with grady hendrix
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An Evening with Grady Hendrix

NeverMore Books 910 Port Republic St, Beaufort, SC

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.

Free
writers workshop
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Workshop: Spiritual Improv, with TZiPi Radonsky (Part 2)

Online - ZOOM

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.

$100
writers workshop
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Workshop: Spiritual Improv, with TZiPi Radonsky (Part 3)

Online - ZOOM

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.

$100
2021 Pat Conroy Literary Festival

2021 Festival Day One

Beaufort, SC

The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners

2021 Pat Conroy Literary Festival

2021 Festival Day Two

Beaufort, SC

The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners

2021 Pat Conroy Literary Festival

2021 Festival Day Three

Beaufort, SC

The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners

2021 Pat Conroy Literary Festival

2021 Festival Day Four

Beaufort, SC

The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners

workshop with william walsh
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Workshop: Finding the Truth in a Poem, with William Walsh

Online - ZOOM

In this poetry workshop and discussion, led by poet and editor William Walsh, we will talk about the idea of truth. What is the truth in a poem? Why does the original truth oftentimes warrant a new truth? What is the reality of truth in some poems?

$45
Kalynn Bayron at Bluffton Book Festival
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Conversation with YA Novelist Kalynn Bayron

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Bestselling author Kalynn Bayron discusses her YA fantasy novels Cinderella Is Dead and This Poison Heart in conversation with Holland Perryman, Millie Bennett, Alisha Arora, members of Beaufort High School's DAYLO: Diversity Youth Literary Organization, moderated by Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.

Free
Evening with Julie Mcalpin Richmond
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An Evening with Julie McAlpin Richmond

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC

The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Julie McAlpin Richmond (Julie Satterfield-Price) author of Green Grass & High Times, on November 30, at 6:00 p.m.

Free
book signing with Janisse Ray
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Night on the Town Signing with Janisse Ray

NeverMore Books 910 Port Republic St, Beaufort, SC

During Beaufort's annual Night on the Town celebration, NeverMore Books and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a book signing with American Book Award-winning writer Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and, most recently, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonder in a World Beyond Humans.

Free
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The Pat Conroy Literary Center has a limited number of autographed collectible copies of Pat Conroy's books available for retail sale in our gift shop. For current inventory and pricing, please contact us at 843-379-7025 or contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org

Please contact Brooke McKinney at the Center by phone at (843)-379-7025 or email her at brooke@patconroyliterarycenter.org

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Pat Conroy Literary Center
601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC 29902 (Map & Directions)

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