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An Evening with Novelist Maddie Dawson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Maddie Dawson, author of Snap Out of It, on Thursday, November 2, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing.

Free

Book Launch: No True Route with Tim Conroy

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a free public drop-in launch event for poet Tim Conroy's second book, No True Route. Join us on Wednesday, October 25, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 601 Bladen St., in downtown Beaufort.

Free

Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this highly interactive four-day workshop, we’ll reactivate (and even befriend) our inner editors. We’ll examine other writers’ early drafts, try our hand at editing those, and compare our efforts to final, published versions. Instead of worrying where to put commas, we’ll explore where our characters are, what they’re saying and doing, and why.

$2225

Book Launch: The Red Starfish with Donna Keel Armer

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a free public drop-in launch event for Donna Keel Armer’s The Red Starfish ~ Book #1 in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series. Join us on Saturday, October 7, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 601 Bladen St., in downtown Beaufort. No advance registration required.

Free

An Evening with Terah Shelton Harris

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Terah Shelton Harris, author of One Summer in Savannah, on Friday, October 6, at 5:00 p.m., at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.).

Free

Panel Discussion – All Night, All Day: Life, Death & Angels

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night, All Day: Life, Death & Angels on Thursday, September 21, at 5:00 p.m.

Free

An Evening with Susan Beckham Zurenda

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with novelist Susan Beckham Zurenda, author of The Girl from the Red Rose Motel, on September 19, at 5:00 p.m. Zurenda will be joined in conversation by bestselling author Cassandra King, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy.

Free

An Evening with Amy Paige Condon

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Amy Paige Condon, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn't Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs, newly released in paperback.

Free

An Afternoon with Beatriz Williams

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Literary Center will host an afternoon with New York Times bestselling novelist Beatriz Williams, author of The Beach at Summerly, on Sunday, July 9, at 2:00 p.m. Free and open to the public, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).

Free

Workshop: June 2023 Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Whether your goal is a family-only writing project or maybe something a lot bigger, begin writing and sharing with other writers in this follow-up to the February class. This course will enable you to start (or continue) the process with a goal of completing a project in the fall.

$45

An Evening with Novelist Kristen Ness

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host Kristen Ness, author of the debut novel At Loggerheads, on Friday, May 26, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, this special author event will be held at the Conroy Center, 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort.

Free

Book Launch: Rainbow Warrior with Jacquelyn Markham

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a public launch event for Jacquelyn Markham’s new collection of poetry, Rainbow Warrior, on Thursday, May 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 601 Bladen St., in downtown Beaufort.

Free

Workshop: Therapeutic Journaling with Sandra E. Johnson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This interactive writing workshop will highlight how to use therapeutic journaling to become more resilient by transforming traumatic events into opportunities for growth, reframing failures into successes, and changing unhelpful habits into ones that strengthen wellbeing.

$45

Book Launch: Jury of One with John Warley

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Our nonprofit Conroy Center is honored to host the book launch for Jury of One, the new Beaufort-based legal thriller from novelist John Warley.

Free

Book Launch: Slack Tide with Nancy Ritter

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Our nonprofit Conroy Center is honored to host the book launch for Slack Tide, the Beaufort-based debut novel from Nancy Ritter. This free public drop-in event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort) on Saturday March 18, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Free

An Evening with Memoirist Donna Keel Armer

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host Donna Keel Armer author of the travel memoir Solo in Solento, on Thursday, March 16, at 5:00 p.m. Donna’s talk, “One Story, Two Books,” will explore her globetrotting experiences as her book was translated into Italian as Un’americana in Salento and she was invited on a recent book tour of Southern Italy and Sicily.

Free

Workshop: Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This workshop is now sold out. Our thanks to everyone who registered in advance. Led by an award-winning memoirist and novelist, this workshop is for those who want to put in writing their cache of family legends or happenings, and for those who want to assist their parents or relatives or friends in doing just that. A great holiday gift for a loved one!

$45

Workshop: Writing as Spiritual Practice with Valerie Sayers

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This workshop will explore a broad range of writers, from Thicht Nhat Hahn to San Juan de la Cruz to Toni Morrison, whose writing has been anchored by their belief in (or search for) the Divine.

$45

Workshop: Stop Making Sense! with Luis H. Francia

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Taking its title from a Talking Heads song, this two-hour workshop uses verbal play, emphasizing lyricism and non-narrative technique. As in jazz, a lyrical poem riffs on the verbal energy of its initial lines to evolve towards a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

$45
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