This free in-person poetry workshop will open with passages written by Pat Conroy that explore his relationship with his mother, Peg Conroy. Participants will then take an active role in reading selected poems by Jamaica Kincaid, Li Young Lee, Dorianne Laux, Kiki Petrosino, Raymod Antrobus, and Sharon Olds for discussion.
On Tuesday, March 29, at 6:00 p.m., the Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with memoirist Carol Lucas, author of A Breath Away: One Woman's Journey through Widowhood.
A ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Pat Conroy Literary Center will be held at 601 Bladen Street in Beaufort, SC on Saturday, March 19, at 5 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served; registration is requested.
The Friends of Hunting Island, in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, will host a drop-in book signing for the newly published coffee table book, Wild Island Nature: Hunting Island State Park and Saint Phillips Island, with author Carol Corbin on Saturday, February 5, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St., Beaufort).
On Tuesday, January 25, at 6:00 p.m., the Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with memoirist Kathryn Purcell, author of There's Something Wrong with Us: A Daughter's Story of Mental Illness, Loss and Healing.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with author Pamela Courtney, author of Hotdogs for Hyenas: A Soul Forged in Rhodesia, on January 20, at 6:00 p.m.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Julie McAlpin Richmond (Julie Satterfield-Price) author of Green Grass & High Times, on November 30, at 6:00 p.m.
