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SUMMARY:July 2025 Virtual Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, July 10\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is novelist Abagail Summers\, author of After the Storm. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 10\, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual – Facebook \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 author:\nAbagail Summers is a Lowcountry author of short stories\, poetry\, and novels—including Life with a Bird Out the Window (2014)\, Forgiving the Past (2020)\, The Untold Legacy (2021)\, and her newest release\, After the Storm (2025). \nTwo of her short stories\, Shining Light and Claire De Lune\, were published in the anthology An Iron Fist in A Velvet Glove\, and both were awarded honorable mention in the Globe Soup 7-Day Writing Contest. Summers earned her BA in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a member of several writing groups\, including Write Like You Mean It\, Kingsbridge Writers Circle\, Writers Beyond Borders\, Charlotte Lit\, and Main Street Writes\, She has been regular participant in the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Open Mic Nights. \n  \nAbout After the Storm\nJune Waters walks away from the country music business at the height of her popularity\, leaving people wondering why. But only she knows why. Not even the people closest to her know what’s happening inside her head or her heart. To make matters worse\, her dad is dying from lung cancer and can no longer run the farm on his own\, which has put her family in jeopardy of losing it all. Against their will\, June moves her absent husband and resentful daughter to her hometown of Franklin\, Tennessee. But when she’s there\, her past weaves its way back into her life\, leaving her with many questions about who she is. Not only that\, but the hourglass has been turned\, the bank starts the foreclosure process. As she balances on the high wire of life\, she must make an agonizing choice: Fight for the land she loves by heading back to Nashville with her pride tucked back into her pocket\, or become the mother her daughter needs her to be. \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/july-2025-virtual-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:May 2025 Virtual Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, May 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is fiction writer James Alan Gill\, author of the story collection Not Dark Yet. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, May 8\, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual – Facebook \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 author:\nJames Alan Gill was raised in a town with no stoplights by a family of coal miners\, then attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale where he earned degrees in History and Creative Writing. \nHis work has appeared in numerous publications\, including Colorado Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, The Common\, Sou’wester\, The Laurel Review\, Midwestern Gothic\, Fried Chicken and Coffee\, Atticus Review\, Book of Matches\, and Prime Number Magazine. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is a seven-time winner of the JD Supra Reader’s Choice Award for his writing in the legal technology industry. He currently lives with his wife\, Brittany\, in Minneapolis. \n“Not Dark Yet unfurls like a fantastic roll of film capturing the hidden pockets of wonder in the lives of the denizens of James Alan Gill’s Illinois town of Matin. People fall in and out of love\, race cars\, make friends\, make tracks\, as ordinary lives reveal the extraordinary\, all the while wrestling with the fundamental question\, Can you really live the life you want and still please the people who love you?”—Whitney Otto\, New York Times Bestselling Author of How to Make an American Quilt and Eight Girls Taking Pictures. \n“Gill writes\, with grace and humor and pain\, about small-town life. This evocative chronicle of plain lives in crisis belongs on the same shelf as the stories of Bobbie Ann Mason and Raymond Carver. Poignant and powerful.”—Benjamin Percy\, author of The Ninth Metal\, Red Moon\, and Thrill Me. \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/may-2025-virtual-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:March 2025 Virtual Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, March 13\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is multi-genre author Susan Tekulve\, whose newest book is Bodies of Light\, her first full-length poetry collection. Hosted by poet Melissa Whiteford St. Clair\, Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, March 13\, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual – Facebook \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 author:\nSusan Tekulve’s newest book Bodies of Light is her first full-length poetry collection. She is the author of Second Shift: Essays (Del Sol Press) and In the Garden of Stone (Hub City Press)\, winner of the South Carolina Novel Prize and a Gold IPPY Award. She’s also published two short story collections: Savage Pilgrims (Serving House Books) and My Mother’s War Stories (Winnow Press). \nHer photo essay\, “White Blossoms\,” appeared in Issue 12 of the KYSO Flash Anthology. Her nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, The Georgia Review\, The Louisville Review\, Puerto del Sol\, New Letters\, and Shenandoah. Her web chapbook\, Wash Day\, appears in the Web Del Sol International Chapbook Series\, and her story collection\, My Mother’s War Stories\, received the 2004 Winnow Press fiction prize. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She teaches in the BFA and MFA writing programs at Converse University. \n“Susan Tekulve’s Bodies of Light both illuminates and enchants. In odes to body parts—teeth and thumbs\, feet and hair—as well as bodies inside bodies (pregnancies)\, this poet delights in the corporal and spiritual. In elegies\, Tekulve honors the bodies of her beloved dead and the magic of her garden. Hummingbirds\, tarantulas\, stinkbugs\, spiders\, and bees wearing ‘tiny yellow combat boots’ populate these terrific poems of wonder and dazzle.”–Denise Duhamel\, author of Pink Lady\, Scald\, and Blowout \n“It’s a kind of magic\, the way Susan Tekulve’s forthright monosyllabic titles (Bonnet\, Grief\, Kimono\, Son—the list goes on) blossom into poems so lush in vision\, so voluptuous in vocabulary and song\, they feel as bountiful as the planet we live on. Tekulve’s poems have their specific concerns of course (parenting\, for example\, and world travel) but ultimately she’s in love with existence itself\, whether elegiac or celebratory\, and her one-word titles (Relics\, Geodes\, Feathers: the list goes on) are keys to a lavish proof of that love’s great depth.”–Albert Goldbarth\, author of History (and Pre-)\, Saving Lives\, and Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology \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/march-2025-virtual-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:January 2025 Virtual Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, January 9\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is Niles Reddick\, award-winning short story writer and author of Who’s Going to Pray for Me Now? Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, January 9\, 2025 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual – Facebook \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 author:\nNiles Reddick is author of a novel\, four short fiction collections\, and two novellas. His work has appeared in over five hundred publications including The Saturday Evening Post\, New Reader Magazine\, Cheap Pop\, Flash Fiction Magazine\, Citron Review\, Hong Kong Review\, and Vestal Review. \n“Even though we don’t know when it’s going to happen\, be damn sure\, if it’s going epic than we need a 1965 Skylark\, fast and focused with a smooth and graceful landing\, to help blast the transition! Reddick presses fiction into the ultimate excursion. DEATH! Who’s Going To Pray For Me Now is a mesmerizing collection: flammable and saturating tales of those final moments when we become feverish weeds whacked into oblivion. These narrative adventures are palpable and inescapable. LOVE! GET A COPY”–Meg Tuite\, author of White Van and an editor at Bending Genres \n“The stories in Niles Reddick’s Who’s Going to Pray for Me Now? show us what it means to be in the know\, whether it’s the inside of a 1965 Skylark or the way to handle snakes in a county church. But there’s also a lot of heart here\, the little hurts and reconciliations of coupledom in a world where two equals more than one plus one. The best flash fiction keeps opening outward after you’ve read it. Reddick’s stories do that and more.”—David Galef\, author of My Date with Neanderthal Woman and editor of Vestal Review \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/january-2025-virtual-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:November 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, November 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Mamie Morgan\, author of Everyone I’ve Danced with Is Dead. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, November 14\, 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:\nMamie Morgan received an MFA from UNC Wilmington and a BA in English and Religious Studies from Wofford. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals\, including Washington Square Review\, the Oxford American\, Fish Barrel Review\, Nimrod\, Muzzle\, Four Way Review\, Yemassee\, Carolina Quarterly\, Inkwell\, and the Greensboro Review. She lives in the woods with her husband and their two pit bulls\, Henrietta Modine and Wednesday Stewart. \n  \nAbout Everyone I’ve Danced with Is Dead \n“Reading these poems is like sitting down with a friend for a conversation-the kind of friend you trust to tell all of the truth\, but with mercy. These whip-smart poems don’t flinch\, even at the hardest truths about what it means to be human-to love and to lose\, to damage and be damaged\, to live through moments ‘where the quake originates\,’ that make you cling to ‘every word that had ever made me want to stay alive.’ These poems have an electric power\, one strong enough to change lives. Morgan faces devastation with such an open grace and generosity that a reader can’t help but feel there’s one truth more real than any other: that even in the moments that shake us to the core\, there is always hope.”–Emma Bolden \n“The central organ pumping blood through these poems is wonderment. Morgan’s particular brand of wonder knows no hierarchies: love\, betrayal\, fallings out\, quotidian\, joy\, jail\, sex\, school\, the body\, war\, race\, politics\, and that old tricker Death all crowd around the same table. This book pulls you forward and shows you the world as it is–a mess worth celebrating\, recoiling from\, enduring\, and embracing. These poems are built of risk and witness–importantly\, they have the language and daring to match. This is one helluva barn burner.”–Michael McGriff \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/november-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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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/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:June 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, June 13\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is novelist Laura Mahaffey\, author of Subject to the Tide. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, June 13\, 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:\nLaura Mahaffey writes romance with a dash of suspense\, a hint of folklore\, and a splash of magical realism. She loves to explore the potential of the unseen. Coastal South Carolina is home to some of her fondest memories. She’s kayaked its marshes\, explored its cemeteries\, and fell in love with its beauty during the four years she lived among the mysteries brewing in the Spanish Moss. Now\, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two dogs\, a dignified miniature schnauzer and a sassy shitzu.www.dooglewrites.com \n“Subject to the Tide is a beguiling novel weaving hints of romance and dark mystery into a dreamy\, love letter to the shadow haunted\, South Carolina coast. Amanda and Hal make for an entertaining tandem whose story you won’t want to put down.”–Erick Mertz\, author of the Strange Air Series \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/june-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:April 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, April 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Heather Corbally Bryant\, author of The Coffin Makers. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual  \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 The Coffin Makers\n“Heather Corbally Bryant’s eleventh collection of poetry shows her deepening grasp of language\, and follows her grappling with the exigencies of a global pandemic in both intricate and plainspoken poetry.”–Laura Munson\, bestselling author and founder of Haven Writing Retreats \n“In The Coffin Makers\, Heather Corbally Bryant offers us poetic witness to a world turned upside down by catastrophic fear\, in clear\, beautiful poems\, marking out our moments of grief\, isolation and hope\, step by step. These poems will remain with us as graceful testament to our moment of crisis.”–Eibhear Walshe\, Director of Creative Writing\, University College Cork \nAbout our featured writer:\nHeather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has also taught at Harvard\, the University of Michigan and the Pennsylvania State University where she has won awards for her teaching. She has written eleven books of poetry\, a prize-winning academic book\, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War\, and a work of creative nonfiction\, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, the Massachusetts Book Award\, and have won Honorable Mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. \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/april-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
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SUMMARY:February 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, February 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is mystery novelist Sally Handley\, author of The Mystery of the Bogus Blooms. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, February 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 The Mystery of the Bogus Blooms\nWhen Holly Donnelly gets invited to speak about home-composting at Pineland Park Community College’s Eco-Fair\, the last thing she and her sister Ivy expect is to become involved in\, not one\, but two murder investigations. Throw in a controversy over a student GMO experiment that yields unexpected results\, and once again the gardening duo find themselves called upon to help those falsely accused. Are the murders and the experiment connected? Can the stalwart sisters find the real killer and save the students’ scholarships? Not without a little help from their friends. Joining them to solve the mystery are trusted allies from past adventures\, Kate Farmer and her neighbors\, Benny and Razor\, along with the plucky Peppy Alvarez and rookie FBI agent Nicky Manelli. \nAbout our featured writer:\nSally Handley is author of the Holly & Ivy cozy mystery series and the stand-alone suspense novel\, Stop the Threat. She also writes a series on the Kindle Vella platform entitled The Adventures of Trixie\, written from her faithful companion’s point of view. A member of Sisters in Crime\, Sally hosts a monthly on-line Mystery Book Club and a Meet the Authors Series on her YouTube Channel\, @sallyhandley1430. For more information\, visit her website at www.sallyhandley.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/february-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:November 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 November is Halle Hill\, author of the story collection Good Women. 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\, November 9\, 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:\nHalle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem\, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)\, she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Joyland\, New Limestone Review\, Southwest Review\, and The Oxford American\, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. https://hallehill.com \n“In Good Women\, Halle Hill gifts us an unflinching peek at women who are trying\, women who are aching\, women who are running their hands along the walls of their dark hearts\, fumbling for the light. Important and beautifully written\, this collection is alive with bite and verve tick-tick-ticking on every page.”—Leesa Cross-Smith\, author of Whiskey & Ribbons \n“A stunning slow burn brimming with observation\, emotion\, and incident.”—Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \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/november-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:September 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 September is Yvette R. Murray\, author of the poetry collection Hush\, Puppy. 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\, September 14\, 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:\nYvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review\, Emrys Journal\, Litmosphere\, A Gathering Together\, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow\, a 2021 Best New Poet selection\, a Watering Hole Fellow\, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina\, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. @MissYvettewrites. \n“Yvette Murray offers a collection that is so shrimp and grits\, so Gullah\, so Battery\, so Charleston. She invites us to taste\, feel\, and breathe her Charleston. She exercises her poetry muscles with traditional forms and lifts voices that Carolinians have heard all their lives. Let her be your tour guide through the pain and the joy. How grateful we are to share in her witness.”–Len Lawson\, author of Chime and co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry \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/september-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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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
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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