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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Martha B. Boone\, author of Mother Charity
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 25\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 retired surgeon turned novelist Martha B. Boone\, author of Mother Charity\, in conversation with retired FBI Special Agent turned novelist Dana Ridenour\, author of the Lexie Montgomery Series\, on Thursday\, July 25\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). \nBooks will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited: please reserve in advance to attend this free author event: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Mother Charity\nEvolving from a naive girl to a competent female surgeon\, Elizabeth has survived the first round of surgery training. What happens next will change her or the hospital forever. After barely surviving her first six months as a trauma intern at Charity Hospital\, Dr. Elizabeth Roberts is exhausted from the long hours\, senseless violence\, and breakneck pace. Despite the tough experience\, she has grown to love New Orleans-its food\, culture\, music\, and people. But now she must endure the hardest rotation in the hospital\, led by her nemesis… who doesn’t think Elizabeth even belongs in the world of surgery. \nNavigating the brutal and exhilarating world of trauma surgery\, she wants to do her duty\, but has bitten off more than she can chew. It’s great training for a surgeon\, but the emotional toll on a previously sweet\, young southern lady may be too much to bear. Once the young doctor discovers what she has to give up to overcome her challenges\, the question arises: will she continue to pursue her dream? If so\, at what cost? \nThis sequel to Martha Boone’s novel The Big Free continues the gripping story of an intern in surgery and all the trials and tribulations that come with it\, from devastating horror to ribald dark humor. \nAbout the Author \nMartha B. Boone\, M.D. was a surgery resident and urology resident at Tulane and trained at Charity Hospital in New Orleans from 1985- 1991. She is one of the first one hundred women board certified in Urology in the United States. Boone retired from the practice of urology after 35 years to travel and write. \nShe was challenged by her mentor Dr. Norman McSwain to memorialize the great Charity Hospital in her novels. Mother Charity is her third book and the sequel to The Big Free. She is also the author of the nonfiction book\, The Unfettered Urologist. \n  \nAbout the Interviewer \nDana Ridenour is the award-winning author of the Lexie Montgomery FBI Series: Behind the Mask\, Beyond the Cabin\, and Below the Radar. Ridenour is a retired FBI special agent who spent most of her career as an undercover operative. She now lives and writes in the South Carolina lowcountry. \n  \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-martha-b-boone-author-of-mother-charity/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jo Angela Edwins\, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, July 13\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 Jo Angela Edwins\, Poet Laureate of the Pee Dee and author of A Dangerous Heaven\, on Saturday\, July 13\, 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. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nEdwins will also lead a poetry writing workshop earlier that afternoon\, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. \nAbout A Dangerous Heaven\nA Dangerous Heaven creates personal and political conversations that resound through both the sacred and the secular worlds. Jo Angela Edwins has spent the past many years excavating those personal relationships which shape and haunt us. She turns the same observant eye on events happening around the word. From “The Last Wild Elephant Alive” to “Death\, A Rock Icon\, and Sewage Pipes” Edwins is able to draw the reader into seeing events from her own unique perspective. \n“In A Dangerous Heaven\, Jo Angela Edwins walks us through a multi-layered grief process for accumulated wrongs and losses: historical\, biblical\, global\, national\, and personal. “It is your responsibility to grieve\,” one poem says\, and this is not a command\, but an acknowledgement. These poems don’t look away from wounds\, especially those of women\, and they don’t turn elsewhere for comfort\, yet they leave me feeling seen and comforted. Everyone needs to read this book.”–Katie Manning\, author of Tasty Other \n“An intimate volume with cosmic reach\, witty and compassionate\, A Dangerous Heaven transports us through a wide range of emotions\, carries us to lofty and surprising places which might be dangerous if we didn’t have Jo Angela Edwins’s sure hand to catch us\, to place our feet firmly on home soil. Crafted to honor insight and emotion\, these daring poems will keep us company over time\, like trusted friends.”–Marilyn Kallet\, author of Even When We Sleep \nAbout the Author\nJo Angela Edwins has published poems in over 100 journals and anthologies\, including Calyx\, descant\, The Hollins Critic\, and New South. She is the author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (Gnashing Teeth Publishing\, 2023) and the chapbooks Bitten (forthcoming from dancing girl press\, 2024) and Play (Finishing Line Press\, 2016). \nShe has received awards from Winning Writers\, Poetry Super Highway\, and the SC Academy of Authors and is a Pushcart Prize\, Forward Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. A native of North Augusta\, she now lives in Florence\, where she teaches at Francis Marion University and serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. \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-jo-angela-edwins-poet-laureate-of-the-pee-dee/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Mystifying the Familiar Led by Jo Angela Edwins
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, July 13\, 2024 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nIn this workshop\, we’ll discuss how imaginative unions in poems can lead to insight. We’ll look at poems like Billy Collins’ “Hippos on Holiday” or Heid E. Erdrich’s “Indigenous Elvis at the Airport” to see the effect of the juxtaposition of the ordinary and the unexpected. As a generative exercise\, we’ll also do a writing activity to inspire the beginnings of such a poem. \nSaturday\, July 13\, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nJo Angela Edwins has published poems in over 100 journals and anthologies\, including Calyx\, descant\, The Hollins Critic\, and New South. She is the author of the collection A Dangerous Heaven (Gnashing Teeth Publishing\, 2023) and the chapbooks Bitten (forthcoming from dancing girl press\, 2024) and Play (Finishing Line Press\, 2016). \nShe has received awards from Winning Writers\, Poetry Super Highway\, and the SC Academy of Authors and is a Pushcart Prize\, Forward Prize\, Best of the Net\, and Bettering American Poetry nominee. A native of North Augusta\, she now lives in Florence\, where she teaches at Francis Marion University and serves as the first poet laureate of the Pee Dee region of South Carolina. \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/workshop-mystifying-the-familiar-led-by-jo-angela-edwins/
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SUMMARY:July 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, July 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is novelist Rebecca Thompson\, winner of the Ann Head Literary Prize and author of the duology The Girl of the Tree and Seeking the Truth. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, July 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.)  \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:\nRebecca Thompson started writing during the coronavirus pandemic\, determined to complete her first book. Not only has she successfully self-published one novel as a teen author\, but now two! \nThompson is the author of the novels The Girl of the Tree and its sequel Seeking the Truth. She is the 2024 winner of the Ann Head Literary Prize at Beaufort High School. She lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina with her mom\, dad\, brother\, two cats\, and fish. \n  \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-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with McCracken King Poston Jr.\, author of Zenith Man
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 27\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 McCracken King Poston Jr.\, author of Zenith Man: Death\, Love\, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom\, on Thursday\, June 27\, 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 through the Beaufort Bookstore. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Zenith Man\nLike a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman\, Just Mercy\, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting\, this is the fascinating true story—sometimes humorous\, sometimes heartbreaking—of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the wife no one knew he had. \nIn October 1997\, the town of Ringgold in northwest Georgia was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in Alvin Ridley’s house—and even more shockingly\, she was the wife no one knew he had. Was this small-town TV repair man “a harmless eccentric or a bizarre killer” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). For the first time\, Alvin Ridley’s own defense attorney reveals the inside story of his case and trial in an extraordinary tale of friendship and an idealistic young attorney’s quest to clear his client’s name—and\, in the process\, rebuild his own life. \nMcCracken Poston Jr. had been a state representative before he lost his bid for U.S. Congress and returned to his law career. Alvin Ridley was a local character who once sold and serviced Zenith televisions. Though reclusive and an outsider\, the “Zenith Man\,” as Poston knew him\, hardly seemed capable of murder. \nAlvin was a difficult client\, storing evidence in a cockroach-infested suitcase\, unwilling to reveal key facts to his defender. Gradually\, Poston pieced together the full story behind Virginia and Alvin’s curious marriage and her cause of death—which was completely overlooked by law enforcement. Calling on medical experts\, testimony from Alvin himself\, and a wealth of surprising evidence gleaned from Alvin’s junk-strewn house\, Poston presented a groundbreaking defense that allowed Alvin to return to his peculiar lifestyle\, a free man. \nYears after his trial\, Alvin was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder\, a revelation that sheds light on much of his lifelong personal battle—and shows how easily those who don’t fit societal norms can be castigated and misunderstood. Part true crime\, part courtroom drama\, and full of local color\, Zenith Man is also the moving story of an unexpected friendship between two very different men that changed—and perhaps saved—the lives of both. \n“A wild ride of love\, death\, and justice in small-town Georgia . . . McCracken Poston\, Jr shares intimate knowledge of a sensational case. This highly engaging read combines the best parts of hard-boiled true crime with a host of colorful characters\, a small-town Southern setting\, and Poston’s natural gift for gab. The results beg for an eight-part Netflix series.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution \n“Wildly entertaining… Zenith Man is a true crime book\, but the events described seems more like a John Grisham novel.” —Mystery Tribune \n“Poston is a good storyteller and has a good story to tell\, with the kinds of twists and turns that will make readers think it’s great fiction—except it all happened.” —Jon Meacham\, New York Times bestselling author\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize \nAbout the Author\nMcCracken King Poston\, Jr.\, is a criminal defense attorney and former state legislator in the Georgia House of Representatives. He gained national attention for his handling of several notable cases that were featured on CNN Presents\, Dateline NBC\, A&E’s American Justice\, and Forensic Files. He lives in Ringgold\, Georgia. www.mccrackenpostonjr.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/an-evening-with-mccracken-king-poston-jr-author-of-zenith-man/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Drop In: Donna Keel Armer author of Moringa: Tree of Life ~ Book 2
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 15\, 2024 – 5:00-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is honored to host a free public drop-in launch event for Donna Keel Armer’s Moringa: Tree of Life ~ Book 2 in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series. Join us on Saturday\, June 15\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 601 Bladen St.\, in downtown Beaufort. No advance registration required. Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be provided. The author will speak briefly at 5:45 p.m. \nAbout Moringa: Tree of Life (Book 2 in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series) \nWho can you trust\, when you can’t even trust what is right in front of you? \nAfter the death of her best friend and her own near-death experience in Italy\, Cat Gabbiano returns to her home in the South Carolina Lowcountry. During Cat’s absence\, her business reputation was tarnished from the ongoing dispute with her most influential client. Her first goal is to reestablish her catering business with the help of her friend and colleague\, Cassie Burton. \nWhile scouting out a venue for a wedding reception at a long-vacated plantation\, Cat encounters a hammer-wielding assailant. Before the dust settles\, she’s contacted by an old classmate who swears he’s an undercover FBI agent. He not only warns her to stay away from the plantation\, but he tells her it’s under surveillance for human trafficking and trespassing could result in dire consequences. \nAlong with this startling revelation enters a Spanish count who insists on Cat becoming his confident as he tries to purchase the abandoned plantation for a life-sustaining project. Perhaps the count is interested in more than a business partnership. Has Cat already forgotten her Italian lover\, Lorenzo? Added to this mix of characters is a state senator who sweeps Cassie off her feet and into his web of deceit. Will Cassie betray Cat too? \nWill Cat discover the truth before it’s too late? Or will she end up in places far darker than the mafia she encountered in Italy? \n“Set against the backdrop of marshes and oaks draped with Spanish moss in South Carolina\, Moringa: Tree of Life is a page-turner of a mystery that addresses real life and difficult societal issues. As with Armer’s other novels\, readers are drawn into the lives of her characters and their stories and are pulling for them all the way. Moringa: Tree of Life is yet another beautifully crafted masterpiece destined for an award.”—Niles Reddick\, author of Who’s Going to Pray for Me Now? and Forgiven \n“Donna Keel Armer’s second novel in her Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series continues the spine-tingling page-turning allure of The Red Starfish. After fleeing Italy\, Cat returns to her South Carolina Lowcountry home. While struggling to rebuild her business\, she stumbles into a covert FBI operation on an abandoned plantation on the cusp of a wedding reception\, a setting interwoven with ties to a Spanish count\, a state senator\, and an undercover federal agent. Once again\, fate calls on Cat to solve a seemingly impossible mystery as she struggles to find her footing against the backdrop of corruption\, human trafficking\, and dangerous liaisons. Armer has gifted new and returning readers with a resolute and emphatic heroine\, one who fails and falls\, and nevertheless rises again. Cat’s appeal is universal; she is on a journey\, as are we all.” —Jonathan Haupt\, coeditor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy \n“Donna Keel Armer hits another home run with Moringa: The Tree of Life. An electrifying second novel in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series.” —Dana Ridenour\, author of the award-winning Lexie Montgomery FBI series \nAbout the Author \nDonna Keel Armer is the author of The Red Starfish\, Book #1 in the Cat Gabbiano Mystery Series\, and Solo in Salento: A Memoir\, which has been translated into Italian as Un’americana in Salento. She recently completed a book tour of Southern Italy. She’s a photojournalist and has published essays for travel anthologies and in magazines featuring photographs and articles on travel\, food and wine\, home and garden and various other topics. When she’s on the road\, she writes a private travelogue. \nShe graduated with honors from Mississippi University for Women with a double major in psychology and social sciences and graduate studies in theology. Her first job during high school was a gofer for a furniture company and her last position before turning to writing was president of the hospitality business owned by Donna and her husband Ray. In-between she’s been in senior management in both the insurance and airline industries. \nShe’s a former board member of Friends of the Library\, a member of Sea Island Spirit Writers\, and a docent at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Donna and Ray split their time between their forever home in the South Carolina Lowcountry and their beloved Italy. \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:Book Signing: Up Here: The Hunting Island Lighthouse and its Lightkeepers
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 8th\, 2024 – 2:00-4:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Friends of Hunting Island\, in partnership with the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will host a drop-in book signing for the newly published coffee table book\, Up Here: The Hunting Island Lighthouse and its Lightkeepers\, with authors Theodore Panayotoff and Linda Miller on Saturday\, June 8th\, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). \nAttendance is free and open to the public; copies of the book will be available for sale and signing. Book purchases benefit the Friends of Hunting Island and support the organization’s work at Hunting Island\, to include the current restoration of the 1875 Fresnel Lens. \nAbout Up Here\nUp Here\, The Hunting Island Lighthouse and its Lightkeepers tells the story in full detail for the first time with breathtaking photographs\, historical context\, 19th century design/architecture and never-before-published drawings from the Library of Congress. \n“At sunset on July 1\, 1859\, the Hunting Island Lighthouse emitted its first beacon of light to mariners\, protecting them from the perils of sandbars and treacherous currents near the coast. The lighthouse\, fitted with its giant-sized lens was so efficient that every 30 seconds the focused light from the simple oil lantern cast a beam 17 miles into the darkness.” \nSince the Hunting Island Lighthouse sent out its first beam of light into the dark night in 1859\, it has witnessed the making of history. Inside the pages of Up Here for the first time\, author and lighthouse historian Ted Panayotoff and Friends of Hunting Island president\, Linda Miller\, provide in detail the creation\, history and current state of this much-loved southern icon. You’ll learn about its lightkeepers and how they lived\, surviving all manner of adventures\, storms and hurricanes. With its dramatic black and white coloring and moveable design\, the lighthouse has witnessed the Atlantic waves caress the shores and storms unleash their fury. Amid this chaos\, the Hunting Island Lighthouse remains resolute\, a symbol of enduring hope and guidance. \nWith a foreword by noted New York Times bestseller\, Cassandra King\, Up Here not only showcases the photographic talent of the area’s finest photographers\, it underscores the importance of conservation and is a fundraising book for the Friends of Hunting Island and the causes they support including turtle conservation. \nUp Here is the new companion book to the award-winning Wild Island Nature about Hunting Island State Park\, published by Lydia Inglett Publishing/Starbooks. \nLearn more about the Friends of Hunting Island at www.friendsofhuntingisland.org. \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:An Evening with Mindy Friddle\, author of Her Best Self
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 23\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 \nIn partnership with NeverMore Books\, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning novelist Mindy Friddle\, author of Her Best Self\, in conversation with Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt\, on Thursday\, May 23\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited: please reserve in advance to attend this free author event: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Her Best Self\nJanelle Wolf longs to be the woman she once was—an adored wife\, a loving mother\, a career woman\, a force in her community—before a mysterious car accident stole her memories\, ruined her reputation\, and upended her life. These days\, her troubled family needs that capable woman from the past\, the one she calls “Janelle Before.” \nEnter Lana\, an alluring and magnetic psychic healer who meets secretly with Janelle. Lana coaxes Janelle to remember the circumstances of her accident in order to recover Janelle’ s “best self.” Instead\, Janelle uncovers the ugly truth behind that night. The revelations unravel Janelle’ s marriage\, disrupt her family\, and turn her small southern town upside down. Written with wry humor\, this diabolically entertaining tale of deception\, temptation\, and love is filled with dark twists\, exploring what happens when the transgressions of the past come back with a vengeance. \n“Fast paced\, clever\, and wickedly compelling.”—Michel Stone\, author of The Iguana Tree \nAbout the Author\nMindy Friddle’s novel\, Secret Keepers\, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. The Garden Angel\, her first novel and SIBA bestseller\, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. \nThe South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship\, and she has twice won the state’ s Fiction Prize. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson and lives on Edisto Island\, South Carolina. \n  \nAbout the Interviewer\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 Charleston Post and Courier and vice president of the board of directors of the statewide Friends of South Carolina Libraries. \n  \n  \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-mindy-friddle-author-of-her-best-self/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with novelist Caroline Cleveland
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 11\, 2024 – 2:00-3:30 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 afternoon with debut novelist Caroline Cleveland\, author of When Cicadas Cry\, on Saturday\, May 11\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Cleveland will be joined in conversation by Conroy Center executive director Jonathan Haupt. Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout When Cicadas Cry\nIn this stunning debut by a South Carolina attorney\, Zach Stander\, a lawyer with a past\, and Addie Stone\, his indomitable detective and lover\, find themselves entangled in secrets\, lies\, and murder in a small Southern town. \nA high-profile murder case—A white woman has been bludgeoned to death with an altar cross in a rural church on Cicada Road in Walterboro\, South Carolina. Sam Jenkins\, a Black man\, is found covered in blood\, kneeling over the body. In a state already roiling with racial tension\, this is not only a murder case\, but a powder keg. \nA haunting cold case—Two young women are murdered on quiet Edisto Beach\, an hour southeast of Walterboro\, and the killer disappears without a trace. Thirty-four years later the mystery remains unsolved. Could there be a connection to Stander’s case? \nA killer who’s watching—Stander takes on Jenkins’s defense\, but he’s up against a formidable solicitor with powerful allies. Worse\, his client is hiding a bombshell secret. When Addie Stone reopens the cold case\, she discovers more long-buried secrets in this small town. Would someone kill again to keep them? \n“John Grisham meets Harper Lee in this immersive and thought-provoking Southern legal thriller. Caroline Cleveland’s talented storytelling propels this realistic tale of secrets and history\, combined with the power of contemporary passion and prejudice. The setting is authentic\, the characters relatable\, and the story propulsive and engaging. Standing ovation for this brilliant debut!”—Hank Phillippi Ryan\, USA Today bestselling author of One Wrong Word \n“A twisty narrative of secrets and lies\, I flew through When Cicadas Cry in a day. A haunting case from the past. A racially tinged murder in the present. And a small South Carolina town about to erupt like a powder keg. Equal parts courtroom thriller and gripping mystery.” —John McMahon\, author of The Good Detective \nAbout the Author\nCaroline Cleveland is a labor and employment lawyer based in Charleston. A native South Carolinian\, Caroline grew up in the Lowcountry and earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1991. When Cicadas Cry is her first novel. \n  \n  \n  \nAbout the Interviewer\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 Charleston Post and Courier and vice president of the board of directors of the statewide Friends of South Carolina Libraries. \n  \n  \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-afternoon-with-novelist-caroline-cleveland/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:May 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, May 9\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Elizabeth Leverton\, author Peace\, Rhododendron. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, May 9\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.)  \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:\nElizabeth Leverton earned a BA in English Lit and a master’s degree in English with a concentration in writing and editing at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She began writing poetry thirty years ago. A recent graduate of the Commercial Graphics program at Midlands Technical College\, Elizabeth is a graphic designer/typesetter who also enjoys songwriting and playing guitar\, singing karaoke\, dancing\, swimming\, tennis\, sewing functional art\, and acrylic painting. \nShe lives in Columbia\, South Carolina\, with her Labrador Retriever\, Molly\, and part-Siamese sister cats\, Silo and Weaver. Peace\, Rhododendron is her first book. \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-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:South Carolina Academy of Authors 2024 Induction - Harlan Greene
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday May 3\, 2024 | 5:00 – 7:00 pm EDT\nWhere: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\nAdvance Registration Required: Eventbrite | Free \nHarlan Greene author presentation at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, followed by a book signing and reception. Presented in partnership with Lowcountry Pride. Free\, advance registration required. Catering by Debbi Covington. (Weather permitting\, this event will be held outside at the Conroy Center.) \nThe South Carolina Academy of Authors (SCAA)\, in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, will hold its biennial induction weekend in Beaufort this May 3-5. \nAbout Harlan Greene\nHarlan Greene has written both fiction and nonfiction\, with a focus on Charleston. As an archivist and historian\, he has worked to save and interpret the literary heritage of the state. His most recent work\, The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston’s LGBTQ History was published in 2022.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/south-carolina-academy-of-authors-2024-induction-harlan-greene/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Grants Make Cents Led by Penny Federspill
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $25\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nNeed alone is not enough to win grants. Led by Penny Federspill\, Grants Make Cents will provide the basic skills needed to learn the essential elements of successful grant writing. These elements include methods of finding an appropriate grant funder\, from your own backyard to paid research data firms. \nThe presentation will be comprised of all the parts of a grant narrative\, accompanied by examples\, with special attention directed to needs assessment\, objectives\, evaluation\, and budgeting. This will include hands-on exercises. Time will be allotted to participants to begin to write a grant proposal\, with individual assistance as needed. A template will be used to guide the writer; it will be a roadmap to achieving a standard format that can be used and reused. Attendees will also leave with a Tip Sheet and glossary to help in future endeavors. \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $25/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nPenny Federspill has been able to merge her love of learning with helping others to gain access to “free money.” She has 40 years of experience in public school environments in Ohio and South Carolina as an instructor\, educator\, and administrator. Ms. Federspill has researched\, developed\, and organized her business\, Grants Make Cents\, resulting in dozens of funded grants\, grant writing workshops\, and contracts as a grant consultant. \nAs a city Grant Administrator\, she gained successful experience with community education and environmental grants and a $225\,000 Federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG). As a part-time school district Grant Administrator she wrote community education grants\, grants for drug-free programs\, and Effective Schools grants. She holds education degrees and has earned recognition from several grant educational institutions. Locally\, she found a grant for a sweetgrass basket designer and wrote a grant for the first after school program for a Beaufort County high school. \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/workshop-grants-make-cents-led-by-penny-federspill/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Publishing Pursuits: Traditional or Indie? Led by Kim Poovey
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWednesday\, March 27\, 2024 · 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nYou’ve finished your manuscript and are ready to share it with the world! The question is whether to go with a traditional publisher or try your hand at independent (Indie) publishing. There are pros and cons to both. Learn the differences between traditional\, hybrid\, and Indie publishing and how to decide which is the best option for your manuscript. \nThis workshop will cover:\n*Aspects of traditional publishing with large and small presses\, hybrid publishing\, and Indie publishing\n*The pros and cons of traditional and Indie publishing\n*Questions you need to ask when considering traditional or hybrid publishing\n*The ins and outs of Indie publishing \nWhat this workshop does not cover:\n*How to write a query letter\n*How to pitch to agents \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nKim Poovey is an author of historical fiction and hauntings. She began her writing career with a traditional publishing house for her first two novels\, Truer Words and Through Button Eyes: Memoirs of an Edwardian Teddy Bear. In 2017\, she switched to Indie publishing and hasn’t looked back. Under her imprint\, Dickens Ghost Publishing\, LLC\, Kim has produced five books; a collection of short stories\, the first three novels in her Dreamist series about a woman who can communicate with the dead in her dreams\, and Shadows of the Moss\, book one in a historical fiction trilogy. \nKim has presented for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) through USCB as well as presenting at Camp Conroy for the past two summers. In addition\, Kim has written for several magazines\, including Beaufort Lifestyle\, Bluffton Breeze\, Citizen’s Companion\, and the Civil War Times. When not writing\, Kim is a school psychologist who lives with her husband and fur babies in a haunted 1890s cottage in the Lowcountry. \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/workshop-publishing-pursuits-traditional-or-indie-led-by-kim-poovey/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Columbia City Poet Laureate Jennifer Bartell Boykin
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 23\, 2024 · 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST\nFree\nPlease call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Columbia City Poet Laureate Jennifer Bartell Boykin\, author of the debut poetry collection Traveling Mercy\, on Saturday\, March 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 to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nBoykin will also be teaching a poetry writing workshop earlier that same afternoon\, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. To learn more and register for the workshop\, please visit https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT THE BOOK\nTraveling Mercy navigates the journeys of a Black woman from rural South Carolina. Her travels transcend time as she encounters history\, nature\, and grief. She sits with the eldest residents before her birth\, with the first ancestor who came to these shores\, with her parents through their marriage\, and through her own loneliness in the wake of their deaths. Planting as she harvests\, this book is a lament and a love story to survival. \n“After reading a single magnificent poem in Traveling Mercy\, “the sapling in your chest floods with too much water and light.” Read a handful of poems\, and find yourself on the poet’s ferry crossing the river “between thens and tomorrows.” Every magical\, existential line is an iteration of Jennifer Bartell’s dexterous poetics. This accomplished debut elegizes human loss while celebrating the resilience that persists through witness and language. Traveling Mercy is a dazzling first book.”–National Book Award-Winning Poet Terrance Hayes \n“Bartell’s Traveling Mercy is such an intimate history of a Black girl raised by Black women\, raised by church fans and magnolia memories\, dream-hymns of Black people pushing through mud and disease and held together by traditions. This rich collection of poems\, by a Black girl who knows how and why to style okra seeds in her hair\, spills with fat oysters and a community’s petrified pounded grace. Bartell assures she will never give us one chance to hold our breath\, as we jump into this never-ending deep end of blazing life\, therefore\, prepare to be drenched.”– National Book Award-Winning Poet Nikky Finney \nAbout our writer: \nPoet Laureate of Columbia\, South Carolina\, and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the author of Traveling Mercy (from Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian\, Callaloo\, the Raleigh Review\, kinfolks: a journal of black expression\, the museum of americana: a literary review\, and Scalawag. \nBartell Boykin is the recipient of fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole. She teaches creative writing and English dual-enrollment courses at Spring Valley High School in Columbia\, South Carolina\, where she was named the 2019–20 Teacher of the Year. She is also an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and an Augusta Baker Scholar at the University of South Carolina’s School of Information Science\, where she is pursuing her master of library and information science degree. Bartell Boykin was born and raised in Bluefield\, a Black community in Johnsonville\, South Carolina. \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-columbia-city-poet-laureate-jennifer-bartell-boykin/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Foodways in Poetry Led by Jennifer Bartell Boykin
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, March 23\, 2024 · 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nCollard greens\, okra\, fried chicken\, company chicken\, pileau (pronounced perlo)\, sweet tea\, pound cake and more appear throughout my poetry. Each dish is important to my experiences with my family and my community. Think of the dishes that are staples for you. What are the memories you have with that food? How do you feel while eating it? Who are you with? The tastes\, textures\, and smells are the menu for memory\, emotion\, and therefore poetry. \nIn this workshop\, we will explore the connections between food\, memory\, and poetry. Come with 1-2 dishes and memories associated with them in mind. If you have a family recipe you’d like to explore\, bring that too. \nIn addition to teaching her workshop\, Bartell Boykin will also be reading from and discussing her new collection of poems at the Conroy Center from 5:00-6:30 p.m. that same evening. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nSaturday\, March 23\, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nPoet Laureate of Columbia\, South Carolina\, and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow\, Jennifer Bartell Boykin is the author of Traveling Mercy (from Finishing Line Press). Her poetry has appeared in Obsidian\, Callaloo\, the Raleigh Review\, kinfolks: a journal of black expression\, the museum of americana: a literary review\, and Scalawag. \nBartell Boykin is the recipient of fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole. She teaches creative writing and English dual-enrollment courses at Spring Valley High School in Columbia\, South Carolina\, where she was named the 2019–20 Teacher of the Year. She is also an American Library Association Spectrum Scholar and an Augusta Baker Scholar at the University of South Carolina’s School of Information Science\, where she is pursuing her master of library and information science degree. Bartell Boykin was born and raised in Bluefield\, a Black community in Johnsonville\, South Carolina. \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/workshop-foodways-in-poetry-led-by-jennifer-bartell-boykin/
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SUMMARY:March 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, March 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is award-winning poet Evelyn Berry\, author of Grief Slut. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, March 14\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) \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 Grief Slut\n“Grief Slut exposes the paradoxical nature of queer life in the South. Required reading in an age of trans discrimination\, Berry’s lines will serve as balm and bulwark. exposing the joyous heartbreak of rural queerness.”—Sim Kern\, author of The Free People’s Village and Seeds From the Swarm \n“Evelyn Berry’s Grief Slut is a book-length aubade to the genderqueer self and body\, to the South\, to violence and desire and Baja Blast. Grief Slut is a riotously beautiful collection of poems\, a love song to flesh and the experience of too muchness that is oh-so-human\, oh-so-queer\, and oh-so-Southern.”—Han VanderHart\, author of What Pecan Light \nAbout our featured writer:\nEvelyn Berry is a trans\, Southern writer\, editor\, and educator. She’s the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications\, 2023) and Buggery (Bateau Press\, 2020)\, winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize. \nShe’s a recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship\, 2022 Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize\, 2019 Broad River Prize for Prose\, and 2018 Emrys Poetry Prize\, among other honors. Berry has been performing in venues around the country (and world!) for more than ten years. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal\, South Carolina Review\, Gigantic Sequins\, Raleigh Review\, Taco Bell Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She lives in Columbia\, South Carolina. \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-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Afternoon with Dr. Kathleen Corley\, author of the The Magical Place We Call School
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 9\, 2024 – 2:00-3:30 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 afternoon with award-winning educator and Red Cedar Elementary School principal Dr. Kathleen Corley\, author of the The Magical Place We Call School: Creating a Safe Space for Learning and Happiness in a Challenging World. \nFree and open to the public\, this author event will be held on Saturday\, March 9\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited. Please call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout the Book\n“Some day\, a techie will invent a chip that can pre-install 40 years of classroom wisdom into every new teacher or principal. Until then\, we’ve got Dr. Kathleen Corley’s book.”–Lenore Skenazy\, president of Let Grow\, author of Free-Range Kids \n“An often encouraging\, compassionate\, and reasoned approach to running elementary schools.”–Kirkus Reviews \nAt a time when public discourse rages on about what students should or should not be taught\, when books are being banned\, when school shootings fill the news\, and when families are still reeling from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic—here comes The Magical Place We Call School. With its fresh focus on the power and perils of education\, it’s an intentional way of thinking that will intrigue readers everywhere. \nIn her literary debut\, school principal Dr. Kathleen Corley\, a forty-year veteran in elementary education\, writes knowingly and with unique humor and insight about the value of education\, how kids think and learn\, what they need to succeed in and out of school\, and how their home life affects their performance. Plus\, she tackles some of the most daunting societal issues impacting children today\, from bullying to gun violence and beyond. \nDr. Corley reminds us that something extraordinary still occurs in classrooms across America—not just miraculously\, but by design and with tenacity. \nIn The Magical Place We Call School\, Corley shares human interest stories that shed light on what is and isn’t working and provides a calm hand and a much-needed perspective from the front lines of learning. Her deep caring for the children\, educators\, and parents in her midst shines through\, providing a true sense of what she calls “the magic of schools.” It’s a book not to be missed. \nAbout the Authors\nDr. Kathleen Corley is an award-winning educator\, an authority on school culture\, and the charismatic principal at Red Cedar Elementary School in Bluffton\, S.C. Renowned for her unique communication and management skills\, Corley has a bachelor’s in music education from the University of Illinois\, a master’s in music administration from Chicago Musical College\, Roosevelt University\, and a Doctorate in Educational Administration from the University of Illinois. \nChicago-born\, Dr. Corley began her career in education as an elementary music teacher and transitioned to education administration to make a wider impact upon student achievement and school culture. She entered the administrative ranks as an assistant principal in Palatine\, Illinois\, then became an elementary school principal in Lynchburg\, Virginia\, Salem Massachusetts\, and Bluffton\, South Carolina. She was the founding principal at three of those schools and has been an educator for over forty years (and still counting). Corley has been an assistant professor at Salem State University and continues to mentor principals. \nGlenn Plaskin is the bestselling author of twenty-five books and his profiles and syndicated columns have appeared in the New York Times\, the Daily News\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Los Angeles Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Family Circle\, US Weekly\, Ladies Home Journal\, Cosmopolitan\, W\, and Playboy. His TV appearances include The Today Show\, Oprah\, Larry King\, Joan Rivers\, Sally Jessy Raphael\, Geraldo\, and Good Day New York. Plaskin is also a recognized collaborator and ghostwriter for CEOs\, entertainment personalities\, high achievers\, newsmakers\, performing artists\, and public speakers. \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/afternoon-with-dr-kathleen-corley-author-of-the-the-magical-place-we-call-school/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:Afternoon with award-winning novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 2\, 2024 – 2:00-3:30 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\, in collaboration with Lowcountry Pride\, will host an afternoon with award-winning novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton\, author of Red Clay Suzie\, Longlisted for the Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize\, on Saturday\, March 2\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books. Seating is limited. Please call to reserve in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Red Clay Suzie\n“Lofton’s descriptive prose is spellbinding; having never been to Georgia myself\, I feel like I now know exactly what the air tastes like and how the red clay feels beneath my fingers in the garden. Taken together\, the author has created an almost impressionist masterpiece of inner machinations and sensory experiences that leave you pleasantly dazed and content when you finally turn the last page.”—San Francisco Book Review \n“Make a glass of sweet tea\, pull up a porch chair\, and a cloth to mop your brow. Red Clay Suzie roots readers in the pacing of the South as Lofton coaxes his people from the heat and the rain and the gardens and the cars. It is a journey of refuge and emergence—helped and hindered by family and friends. Even through the characters’ most painful moments of discovery and loss\, it is an absolute joy to read. Three cheers to Jeffrey Dale Lofton and his stellar debut novel.”—Claire Green\, former President of Parents’ Choice Foundation \nThe coming-of-age story of Philbet\, a gay\, physically-misshapen boy in rural Georgia\, who battles bullying\, ignorance\, and disdain as he makes his way in life as an outsider—before finding acceptance in unlikely places. \nFueled by tomato sandwiches and green milkshakes\, and obsessed with cars\, Philbet struggles with life and love as a gay boy in rural Georgia. He’s happiest when helping Grandaddy dig potatoes from the vegetable garden that connects their houses. But Philbet’s world is shattered and his resilience shaken by events that crush his innocence and sense of security; expose his misshapen chest skillfully hidden behind shirts Mama makes at home; and convince him that he’s not fit to be loved by Knox\, the older boy he idolizes to distraction. Over time\, Philbet finds refuge in unexpected places and inner strength in unexpected ways\, leading to a resolution in the form of a letter from beyond the grave. \nAbout Jeffrey Dale Lofton\nJeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs\, Georgia\, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. During those early years he spent many a night trodding the boards of the DC’s theaters and performing arts centers\, including the Kennedy Center\, Signature Theatre\, Woolly Mammoth\, and Studio Theatre. He even scored a few television screen appearances\, including a residuals-rich Super Bowl halftime commercial\, which his accountant wisecracked “is the finest work of your career.” \nUltimately he stepped away from acting for other\, more traditional work\, including providing communications counsel to landscape architects and helping war veterans tell their stories to add richness and nuance to historical accounts. At the same time\, he focused on pursuing post-graduate work\, ultimately being awarded Master’s degrees in both Public Administration and Library and Information Science. Today\, he is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress\, surrounded by books and people who love books—in short\, paradise. \nRed Clay Suzie is his first work of fiction\, written through his personal lens growing up an outsider figuring out life and love in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. \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/afternoon-with-award-winning-novelist-jeffrey-dale-lofton/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Linked Poetry: Traditional and New Approaches
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nMonday\, February 19\, 2024 · 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nLinked Poetry: Traditional and New Approaches is a poetry workshop for writers of all levels and ages who are looking to collaborate! We will begin with haiku writing exercises and build different styles of linked poems step by step. It is a highly interactive\, hands-on workshop. Come with a writing partner or on your own. \nMonday\, February 19\, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructors: \nNatasha Akery is a language arts teacher and poet from North Charleston\, South Carolina. She devotes her writing practice to haiku with themes of heritage\, motherhood\, and spirituality. You can find her poems on Instagram (@writethreelines) and in I Am a Furious Wish: Anthology of Lowcountry Poets\, Vol. 1 published by Free Verse Press. Her first chapbook\, in [the name]\, is a collection of haiku inspired by the desert and biblical stories. It is available through Bottlecap Press. \n  \n  \nTwice nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Miho Kinnas is a writer\, translator and poet living in Hilton Head Island\, SC. She is the author of three poetry collections\, Today\, Fish Only (2014)\, Move Over Bird (2019) from Math Paper Press and Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias (2023) from Free Verse Press. A book of collaboration with E. Ethelbert Miller\, We Eclipse into the Other Side was also published in 2023 by Pinyon Publishing. Her poem\, Three Shrimp Boats on the Horizon was selected for Best American Poetry 2023. \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:Workshop: Editing Basics for Authors\, Led by Leslie Rindoks
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, February 10\, 2024 · 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nDorothy Parker once said\, “I hate writing\, but I love having written.” For many of us that’s true\, the fun begins after we’ve written—when we have something to play with\, something to revise. \nIn this workshop\, participants will come to love their inner editors and learn that editing can be fun. We’ll begin by looking first at other writers’ work\, then move on to participants’ work. Writers will need to bring the first 20 or so pp of their work in progress. We’ll evaluate major story elements and explore how they might make the work stronger\, more effective\, and more memorable. \nThis in-person workshop will be held at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.)\, limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of 5 needed to hold the class.) $40/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nTESTIMONIALS:\n“Because of Leslie\, I am a much better writer. Her guidance and tutelage were invaluable.” —Dan Pliszka\, author of Life is Great! (Even if Your Boat Flips Over) \n“For my novel\, and its iterations over time\, I am thankful for Leslie’s sharp eyes and clear-headed comments.” —Karen Salyer McElmurray\, author of Wanting Radiance \n“Leslie Rindoks is the best in the business. She’s timely\, quick-witted\, steadfast\, and kind. Her mentorship took me from a timid wannabe writer to an author writer with a distinct style.” —Amelia Wyatt\, author of Ozzy and the Island and Mind the Gap \n“I owe Leslie so much for her knowledge and her intuition as to what makes a good story. She certainly knows her business. In my mind\, she is quite brilliant.” —Michael Ambrose\, author of the forthcoming Learning to Land \nAbout our instructor: \nOriginally from Chicago\, Leslie Rindoks studied writing at Iowa Writers’ Workshop and illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art. She holds a BFA and MFA in design\, and an MFA in creative writing and publication arts. The founder of Lorimer Press and WayWord Books (waywordbooks.com)\, she has edited more than 70 books. Passionate about combining words and images\, she was the lead writer and book designer for LUCK\, A Collection of Facts\, Fiction\, Incantations & Verse and her work was featured in Far From the Centers of Ambition and 100 Love Notes. \nWriting as Avery Caswell\, she is the author of the story collection MotherLoad and the novels Salvation and Dry Spell. (averycaswell.com) \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/workshop-editing-basics-for-authors-led-by-leslie-rindoks/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Pam Webber\, author of Life Dust
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 26\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 award-winning novelist Pam Webber author of the historical novel Life Dust\, on Friday\, January 26\, 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. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Life Dust\n“Life Dust doesn’t limit itself to being a drama with romantic undertones\, but a character-driven book where love\, war and humanity attempt to co-exist. A brilliant piece of writing to be enjoyed by many.”—Southern Literary Review \n“This novel is a testament to the heroes of the Vietnam War and an eye-opening experience for readers. . . . Highly recommended.”—Historical Novel Society \nLife Dust tells a story of courage: the kind that goes to war; and the kind that stays home. Along the way\, it reveals what love\, respect\, and caring are about and what duty\, honor\, and country really mean. \nNettie’s world turns upside down when Andy\, her soulmate since the sandbox days\, is deployed to Vietnam. Struggling to cope with the constant worry\, she dives into her work as a nursing intern in a busy Northern Virginia emergency department. In the process\, she becomes entangled in the lives of a tortured man with everything money can buy except a chance to live the life he wanted and a vengeful nursing supervisor whose discontent leads to a string of late-night trysts in the shadowy recesses of the hospital. \nHalf a world away\, Andy leads a military reconnaissance squad in a dangerous and unforgiving jungle. He receives orders to escort a high-ranking female freedom fighter\, Bien\, to a clandestine meeting with a North Vietnamese officer who wants to defect. Having previously been raped and brutally beaten by North Vietnamese soldiers\, Bien is suspicious of the officer’s motives. However\, something tells her he may be the younger brother who was kidnapped as a child and conscripted into the army of her attackers. Andy believes his unit is walking into a trap that could cost them everything. \nStruggling to survive in different worlds\, Nettie and Andy navigate the best and worst of human nature as they try to find their way back to one another. \n\n2023 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medalist in Christian (Historical Fiction)\n2023 IPPY Awards Silver Medalist – Best Southern Regional Fiction\n2023 Military Writers Society of America Awards Silver Medal in Historical Fiction\n\nAbout Pam Webber\nPam Webber is a second career\, best-selling author of historical fiction. Her novels\, The Wiregrass\, Moon Water\, and Life Dust\, have garnered multiple regional and national awards from organizations such as the Historical Novel Society\, the Southern Literary Review\, InD’Tale Magazine\, Ingram Global Publishing\, and the Military Writers Society of America. \nAs a former nursing educator\, Pam approached the development of her skill as a creative writer by taking classes and studying independently with experts in character evolution\, story arc\, and literary infrastructure. She continued to hone her skill as a member of a small\, professional writers group led by a talented and demanding New York Times bestselling author. \nIn her other life\, Pam is a PhD prepared internal medicine nurse practitioner\, an avid traveler\, and nature lover. She and the love of her life\, Jeff\, live and work in the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They are the parents of three wonderful children\, Michael\, Sarah\, and Cindy\, and the lucky grandparents of Jace\, Albin\, James\, and Alexandra. \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-pam-webber-author-of-life-dust/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Scott Gould in conversation with Mindy Friddle
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, January 20\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 visiting award-winning fiction writer Scott Gould\, author of Idiot Men: Short Stories\, in conversation with fellow award-winning writer Mindy Friddle\, on Saturday\, January 20\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \n(Gould will also be teaching a fiction workshop\, Write What You Know Well Enough to Lie About\, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center that same day. \nAbout Idiot Men\n“Scott Gould is a literary shapeshifter. A rough Southern man who writes about trucks\, beer\, dogs and doublewides with the finesse of a poet. Idiot Men is like the best country song you have ever heard. His writing breaks your heart but makes you rejoice that you are still alive to recover.”–Jane Stern\, author of Ambulance Girl \nWith Strangers to Temptation\, Things that Crash\, Things that Fly\, and The Hammerhead Chronicles\, Scott Gould cemented his reputation as one of the most inventive\, distinctive voices of Southern literature. In his latest collection\, Idiot Men\, he once again gathers a cast of unforgettable characters in eleven stories chock full of exceptional storylines and hilarious writing. \nYou’ll meet a trucker driver whose wife flees to Jamaica with her lover\, leaving him to babysit her hairless tomcat\, Princess Di; a male nurse who discovers a trailer full of counterfeit NASCAR paraphernalia during a home health visit; an amateur arsonist sentenced to a year in a Smokey the Bear suit; a disgruntled roofer with a bad back and a meth-dealing twin brother… these are just a few of the idiot men you’ll encounter in a collection of stories that will appeal to readers who relish literature with a Southern flavor. \nGould’s Idiot Men provides the stage for wayward characters who make poor choices in life and love against a backdrop of elegant prose. These tales recalibrate morality and convention as readers will grow to love the characters despite-and perhaps because of-their flaws. These diverse\, rich stories are ultimately connected by the spellbinding voice of a true Southern storyteller. \nAbout Author Scott Gould\nScott Gould is the author of five books\, including The Hammerhead Chronicles\, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction\, and Things That Crash\, Things That Fly\, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. Other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award\, an IPPY Award for Fiction\, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. Gould’s latest book is the story collection\, Idiot Men. \nHis work has appeared in Kenyon Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Pangyrus\, New Ohio Review\, Crazyhorse\, Pithead Chapel\, Vessel\, Garden & Gun\, and New Stories from the South\, among others. He teaches at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville\, S.C. \n  \nAbout Interviewer Mindy Friddle\nMindy Friddle is author of the novel\, Secret Keepers\, (winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction). The Garden Angel\, her first novel and SIBA bestseller\, was selected for Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers. \nThe South Carolina Arts Commission awarded Mindy a prose fellowship\, and she has twice won the state’s Fiction Prize. Mindy’s third novel\, Her Best Self\, will be published in May. \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:Workshop: Fiction Writing Led by Scott Gould
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nSaturday\, January 20\, 2024 · 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST\nCost: $40\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nMost decent fiction has its origins in one or more real life events. Or to put it another way: the fictional stories we write often rise from the realm of nonfiction. This course is designed to 1) discover something tucked away in your memory that’s story-worthy\, and 2) start telling some lies about it. So\, using a prompt\, we’ll mine your memories for a number of recollections\, then use one or more of those memories to begin a brand-new short story (which\, of course\, means we’ll be talking conflict and character\, as well.) The goal of this session is to walk away with the first page or so of a new piece of fiction\, full of good lies. \nSaturday\, January 20\, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $40/person. Registration fee includes a copy of Idiot Men: Short Stories\, the new collection from instructor Scott Gould (an $18 value). \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nFollowing the workshop\, at 5:00 p.m.\, Gould will also appear in conversation about Idiot Men with fellow award-winning novelist Mindy Friddle at the Conroy Center. The author conversation is free and open to the public. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nScott Gould is the author of five books\, including The Hammerhead Chronicles\, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction\, and Things That Crash\, Things That Fly\, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. Other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award\, an IPPY Award for Fiction\, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. Gould’s latest book is the story collection\, Idiot Men. \nHis work has appeared in Kenyon Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Pangyrus\, New Ohio Review\, Crazyhorse\, Pithead Chapel\, Vessel\, Garden & Gun\, and New Stories from the South\, among others. He teaches at the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities in Greenville\, S.C. \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/workshop-fiction-writing-led-by-scott-gould/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with novelist Johnathon Scott Barrett\, author of Ship Watch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, January 12\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 raconteur and writer Johnathon Scott Barrett\, author of the debut novel Ship Watch\, on Friday\, January 12\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Weather permitting\, the event will be outside. Free and open to the public\, this event is presented in collaboration with the Beaufort chapter of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Ship Watch\nSet around the renowned and historical homestead at the center of the drama\, Ship Watch weaves together six intertwined relationships that extend from the gentrified city of Savannah and into the wealthy enclaves of Sea Island\, Highlands\, and Atlanta’s Buckhead. The novel’s characters are drawn in the loom by the family’s elegantly formidable matriarch\, Grand Martha\, and form a multi-generational tapestry that includes the misfortunes of divorce and betrayal – but in more and even better measure opportunities for redemption\, rediscovery\, and the rarified gift of ‘second love.’ By combining an encompassing setting having a solid sense of place along with characters that are captivating and rather extraordinary\, Ship Watch is a sometimes bittersweet\, yet often comedic\, Southern tour-de-force debut novel. \n“Watch\, the family’s long-owned grand plantation on the banks of the Savannah River\, is contested\, proverbial long knives are brandished. Much of this engrossing tale depicts place—Savannah\, Highlands\, and Sea Island—where the wealthy make merry and hold court.”—Jameson Gregg\, Georgia Author of the Year\, Luck Be A Chicken \n“Storyteller extraordinaire\, raconteur\, and old-school bon vivant Johnathon Barrett celebrates the most glorious aspects of Southern life in all four of his wonderfully written books”—Janis Owens\, award-winning and bestselling author of American Ghost and My Brother Michael \nAbout Johnathon Scott Barrett\nJohnathon Scott Barrett is a seventh-generation Georgian with a deep appreciation of the literary and culinary traditions of the South. He is the author of three widely acclaimed cookbooks\, which critics hail for their entertaining stories and extensive recipes. \nBesides writing\, Johnathon is a CPA and has worked as a nonprofit executive for the last three decades. Currently\, he serves as director of development for the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at UGA. He divides his time between homes in Winterville and Savannah\, Georgia. Ship Watch is his debut novel. \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-johnathon-scott-barrett-author-of-ship-watch/
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SUMMARY:January 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, January 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is award-winning poet Miho Kinnas\, author of Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, January 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) \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:\nTwice nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2019 and 2023)\, Miho Kinnas is a poet and translator. Waiting for Sunset to Bury Red Camellias is her third collection of poetry\, following Today\, Fish Only (2014) and Move Over\, Bird (2019). A poetry of collaboration with E. Ethelbert Miller\, We Eclipse into The Other Side\, was published in 2023. \nElaine Equi selected her poem “Three Shrimp Boats Over the Horizon” for Best American Poetry 2023. Miho operates a community bookshop\, An Island Bookshelf\, on Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. She holds an MFA in poetry from the City University of Hong Kong. \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-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Colleen Coble\, author of Fragile Designs\, and Rhonda McKnight\, author of The Thing About Home
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 3\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 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 of conversation with visiting novelists Colleen Coble\, author of Fragile Designs\, and Rhonda McKnight\, author of The Thing About Home\, on Wednesday\, January 3\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing in collaboration with the Beaufort Bookstore. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Colleen Coble and Fragile Designs\nColleen Coble is the author of more than seventy-five books and is best known for her coastal romantic suspense novels. Her books have been honored with awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana\, the ACFW Carol Award\, the Romance Writers of America RITA\, the Holt Medallion\, the Daphne du Maurier\, National Readers’ Choice\, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 5 million books in print and has been on the bestseller lists of USA Today\, ECPA\, CBA\, Publishers Weekly\, and Amazon. She lives and writes in Indiana. \nColleen’s newest novel\, Fragile Designs\, is set in Beaufort. Since her police-officer husband Eric’s mysterious murder\, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn’t sustainable\, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist. So when her grandmother proposes she and her two sisters restore the family’s large Beaufort home and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast\, she immediately gets to work clearing out the house. In the process\, she uncovers a family secret that Eric kept hidden. And an heirloom that the wrong person wouldn’t hesitate to kill for. \nCarly turns to homicide detective Lucas Bennett for help. Soon\, they’re entangled in a mystery with threads that lead all the way to the Russian mafia. Lucas has gotten in deep\, and while he trusts his ability to keep Carly and her family safe\, he begins to realize he’s vulnerable to an unexpected kind of danger. As they continue working closely together\, Carly and Lucas realize they may have found something more precious than gold. \nAbout Rhonda McKnight and The Thing About Home\nWinner of the 2015 Emma Award for Inspirational Romance of the Year\, Rhonda McKnight is the author of An Inconvenient Friend and What Kind of Fool. Themes of faith\, forgiveness\, and hope are central to her stories. Originally from a small coastal town in New Jersey\, Rhonda now lives and writes in the South Carolina lowcountry. \nIn The Thing About Home\, Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony ends in her being left at the altar\, the former model turned social media influencer has new fame—the kind she never wanted. With her personal and business lives in shambles\, Casey runs from New York City to South Carolina’s Lowcountry hoping to find long-lost family. \nWhat Casey doesn’t expect is a postcard-worthy property on a three-hundred-acre farm\, history\, culture\, and a love of sweet tea. She also meets Nigel\, the farm manager whose friendship has become everything she’s never had. Through the pages of her great-grandmother’s journals\, Casey discovers her roots run deeper than the Lowcountry soil. She learns that she has people\, a home\, a legacy to uphold\, and a great new love story—if only she is brave enough to leave her old life behind. \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-colleen-coble-and-rhonda-mcknight/
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SUMMARY:Workshop: When the “Heat of Feeling Warms the Intellect” Led by Jacquelyn Markham
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nTuesday\, December 12\, 6:00-7:30 p.m. EDT\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.)\nVenue: Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St Beaufort\, SC 29902 \nHave you ever struggled with the shape and form of your poem? Or\, simply wondered what form best fit the experience you wanted to express? Whether your poem is inspired by the “heat of feeling” or you must invite the muse to your poem\, the interplay between form and content is important to your creative process. In this generative workshop\, we will draw on guidance from poets Denise Levertov and Mary Oliver\, as we explore different containers for our experiences. We will move from organic form through free verse to formal patterns\, such as the cinquain and rondeau\, to see our experiences take shape in new ways. \nWho should attend this workshop? Those who love language and long to express their experiences in words. Any level can take away some tips for the process of hearing and expressing what Levertov calls our “constellations of experience.” \nTuesday\, December 12\, 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Limited to 15 participants. (A minimum of five participants is needed for this workshop.) $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nDr. Jacquelyn Markham has been writing\, teaching\, and publishing poetry for over three decades. She earned a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing with a focus on poetry from Florida State University. Her recent chapbook\, Rainbow Warrior (Finishing Line Press\, 2023)\, adds to her many publications in literary journals\, magazines\, and anthologies\, including Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005\, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology\, Lullwater Review\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, The High Window\, Woman and Earth\, among others. A recipient of numerous grants and awards for literary merit\, she has also published The Complete Poetry of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1884-1935) for which she was awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for distinguished contribution to scholarship. \nDr. Markham has taught writing for universities throughout the southeast as well as in community settings. Currently\, she mentors poets and writers while living and writing near the coast of South Carolina. \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/workshop-when-the-heat-of-feeling-warms-the-intellect-led-by-jacquelyn-markham/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Eat It and Like It host Jesse Blanco\, author of Savannah Food Crawls
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 8\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 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 of with Eat It and Like It host Jesse Blanco\, author of Savannah Food Crawls\, in conversation with food and travel writers Lynn and Cele Seldon. \nFree and open to the public\, this event will be held on Friday\, December 8\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Weather permitting\, the event will be outside. Books by all three authors will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nAbout Jesse Blanco and Savannah Food Crawls\nSavannah Food Crawls: Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite and Libation at a Time is an exciting culinary tour through one of Georgia’s most beautiful cities. Each crawl is the complete recipe for the perfect tourist day\, a new way to experience your own city\, or simply great food stories to enjoy from home. Put on your walking shoes and your stretchy pants and dig into Savannah one dish at a time. \nJesse Blanco is\, without question\, one of Savannah’s most recognizable personalities. His laid-back style and ability to connect with viewers and readers remain his calling card following a 24-year career in television news. During his 5 years as primary news anchor at the local FOX affiliate\, Jesse always found creative ways to connect with his audience. That talent extended to his weekly column in the Savannah Morning News\, which very quickly became one of the paper’s most popular features from 2012 to 2018. \nIn 2010\, Jesse and his business partner created a blog and later a television show dedicated to the underappreciated side of Savannah’s food scene. Four years later\, Savannah’s food scene exploded and Eat It and Like It found itself sitting in the front row to witness it all. Since 2014 he’s been the Savannah area’s only full-time food writer. This year\, his first book documenting Savannah’s food scene\, Savannah Food Crawls\, was published\, to be followed next year by Charleston Food Crawls. \nJesse was born in California but calls Miami his hometown. Having been raised in a very large Cuban-American family where the genetic makeup consists of food\, music\, dancing\, laughing\, and friendship. Throw in an insatiable desire to travel and explore and you get someone who is only happy learning or trying new things. Jesse is married with one child. \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWERS\nJesse will be interviewed by husband and wife writers Lynn and Cele Seldon\, the authors of 100 Things to Do in Savannah Before You Die\, 100 Things to Do in Charleston Before You Die\, and countless travel and food articles appearing in local\, regional\, and national publications. \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-eat-it-and-like-it-host-jesse-blanco-author-of-savannah-food-crawls/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Halle Hill\, author of Good Women
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 7\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 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 \n“A stunning slow burn brimming with observation\, emotion\, and incident.”—Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning writer Halle Hill\, author of the newly published story collection\, Good Women\, on Thursday\, December 7\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nAbout Good Women\n“In Halle Hill’s Good Women\, we meet mothers and daughters\, lovers and friends\, saints and aint’s––all longing for something\, some place\, someone. They are curious\, messy\, and determined\, and Hill’s fierce and dazzling pen lets us feel every ounce of their complicated desires. Every mistake\, every realization\, every triumph\, every tragedy. This is a fantastic firecracker of a collection I’ll return to again and again!”—Deesha Philyaw\, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies \n“This heralds a bright new talent.”—Publishers Weekly \nIn her dynamic debut\, Halle Hill’s Good Women delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. A woman boards a Greyhound bus barreling toward Florida to meet her sugar daddy’s mother; a state fair employee considers revenge on a local preacher; a sister struggles with guilt as she helps her brother plan to run away with a man he’s seeing in secret; a young woman who works for a scam for-profit college navigates the lies she sells for a living. \nDarkly funny and deeply human\, Good Women observes how place\, blood ties\, generational trauma\, obsession\, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds\, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect. Through intimate moments of personal choice\, Hill carefully shines a light on how these twelve women shape and form themselves through faith and abandon\, transgression and conformity\, community\, caution\, and solitude. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\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  \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:An Evening with Linda Lovely\, author of A Killer App
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 29\, 2023 – 6:00-7:30 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 mystery novelist Linda Lovely\, author of A Killer App (An HOA Mystery)\, on Wednesday\, November 29\, at 6:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-379-7025. \nIn keeping with the themes and plot of her newest novel\, Linda will also be discussing AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its implications for writers and readers. \nAbout A Killer App\nKylee Kane\, a security consultant for Welch HOA Management\, finds the first victim\, Andy Fyke\, crumpled at the bottom of a flight of stairs. Kylee suspects his fall’s no accident and is tied to Andy’s campaign to prohibit rentals in his Hilton Head Island community. Yet\, Andy’s obvious enemies have ironclad alibis. When another Lowcountry HOA retiree dies in a hit-and-run boat tragedy\, Kylee begins to think the incidents are linked-even though the victims and their assailants have little in common. \nThe link is the Chameleon\, an Artificial Intelligence expert\, who can create a deepfake of almost anyone-living or dead. Even more frightening is the Chameleon’s ability to seek out disturbed souls and laser-focus their rage. A talent employed to compel subjects to act as surrogate assassins. When Kylee begins to pursue the Chameleon\, the AI expert decides it’s time to groom an assassin to permanently sideline Kylee. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nA Killer App is Linda Lovely’s eleventh mystery/suspense novel. Whether she’s writing cozy mysteries\, historical suspense or contemporary thrillers\, her novels share one common element-smart\, independent heroines. Humor and romance also sneak into every manuscript. \nHer work has been recognized as a finalist by such prestigious awards as RWA’s Golden Heart for Romantic Suspense and Thriller Nashville’s Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery. A long-time member of Sisters in Crime and former chapter president\, Lovely also belongs to Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. She lives on a lake in Upstate South Carolina with her husband\, and enjoys swimming\, tennis\, gardening\, long walks\, and\, of course\, reading. \nAs part of her discussion of AI\, Lovely will also address: What prompted her to create a villain with expertise in AI? How did she investigate the tools at the disposal of an AI-savvy bad actor? How does AI respond if you ask it about potential perils for humanity…and benefits? How does AI impact authors? What’s the immediate impact for authors in regard to publishing contracts and copyright infringement? Are there legitimate and ethical ways for authors to use AI? How many books are currently being generated by AI and sold in competition with human author creations? What did the screen writers win in their strike against the studios? What protections exist for cover artists and designers? How can readers determine if the books they’re considering buying are AI-generated? Why should they care? What does AI mean long-term for the publishing world? \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-linda-lovely-author-of-a-killer-app/
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