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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 21\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nFree Registration: 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 a panel discussion and book signing for the anthology All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels on Thursday\, September 21\, at 5:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance.\nThe panel discussion will include editor Susan Cushman and contributing writers Cassandra King\, Wendy Reed\, and Nancy Dorman-Hickson. \nAbout All Night\, All Day: Life\, Death & Angels\n“All Night\, All Day is an inspirational collection of personal essays\, stories\, and poems by outstanding women authors who write about the appearance of the divine in their lives. Some of these angels come to save a life or change a flat tire. Some appear to warn people\, tell them what to do\, suggest more vegetables and maybe better shoes… In this stunning anthology which explores so many heartwarming brushes with celestial beings\, all these angels are messengers come to assure us we are not alone\, and we are loved.”—Margaret McMullan\, award-winning author of Where the Angels Lived \nThere is something mystical about holding the hand of a person who is “crossing over.” It can be heartbreaking\, of course\, but also very holy and beautiful. Some of the pieces in this collection share the experience of personal loss when a loved one dies. Often the presence of an angel or another mystical experience is shared. But not only in death—there are also stories here of the way the mystical world interacts with us in daily life. And not only angels\, but also mothers\, fathers\, sisters\, grandfathers\, friends\, and even a homeless man and a dog. \nABOUT THE EDITOR AND AUTHORS\nThis is Susan Cushman’s fourth anthology to edit. She is also the author of two novels\, two memoirs\, and a short story collection. Pat Conroy and Cassandra King are her two favorite authors and inspired her to write. Enough said. \n  \n  \nCassandra King (Conroy) is the author of five best-selling novels and two nonfiction books. Her latest book\, Tell Me a Story\, a memoir about life with her late husband Pat Conroy\, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A conversation with Cassandra at her home in 2018 about angels—and particularly about the one that visited Pat as he was dying—was the inspiration for this book. \n  \nWendy Reed is an Emmy-winning writer and producer\, whose work include documentaries and the long-running series Bookmark with Don Noble and Discovering Alabama. She is the author of An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and the co-editor of All Out of Faith and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. \n  \nAfter almost twenty years as a features editor at Southern Living magazine\, Nancy Dorman-Hickson now freelances in Birmingham\, Alabama. She co-authored Diplomacy and Diamonds\, the best-selling memoir of Joanne King Herring who was portrayed by Julia Roberts in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War. She is working on a memoir which draws from her rural childhood in the 1960s and 1970s in Mississippi. \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 Susan Beckham Zurenda
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 19\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street) | please call The Center to reserve your seat: 843-379-7025 \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center and NeverMore Books will host an evening with novelist Susan Beckham Zurenda\, author of The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\, on September 19\, at 5:00 p.m. Zurenda will be joined in conversation by bestselling author Cassandra King\, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. Free and open to the public\, this special event will be held at The Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT The Girl from the Red Rose Motel\nImpoverished high school junior Hazel Smalls and privileged senior Sterling Lovell would never ordinarily meet. But when both are punished with in-school suspension\, Sterling finds himself drawn to the gorgeous\, studious girl seated nearby\, and an unlikely relationship begins. Set in 2012 South Carolina\, the novel interlaces the stories of Hazel\, living with her homeless family in the rundown Red Rose Motel; Sterling\, yearning to break free from the expectations of his wealthy parents; and recently widowed Angela Wilmore\, their stern but compassionate English teacher. \nHazel hides her homelessness from Sterling until he discovers her cleaning the motel’s office one morning when he goes with his slumlord father to unfreeze the motel’s pipes. With her secret revealed\, their relationship deepens. Angela\, who has her own struggles in a budding romance with the divorced principal\, offers Hazel the support her family can’t provide. Navigating between privilege and poverty\, vulnerability and strength\, all three must confront what they need from themselves and each other as Hazel gains the courage to oppose boundaries and make a bold\, life-changing decision at novel’s end. Gripping and richly drawn\, The Girl from the Red Rose Motel explores the complex bonds between adults and teenagers and the power of the families we both inherit and create. \nInspired by the author’s experiences teaching in a South Carolina high school\, the novel is also an unflinching\, authentic look at the challenges faced by America’s public school teachers and the struggles of the thousands of homeless children in motels who live\, precariously and almost invisibly\, amid the nation’s most affluent communities. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSusan Zurenda taught English for 33 years on the college level and at the high school level to AP students. Her debut novel\, Bells for Eli (Mercer University Press\, March 2020; paperback edition March 2021)\, has been selected the Gold Medal (first place) winner for Best First Book—Fiction in the 2021 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards)\, a Foreword Indie Book Award finalist\, a Winter 2020 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance\, a 2020 Notable Indie on Shelf Unbound\, a 2020 finalist for American Book Fest Best Book Awards\, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2021. \nShe has won numerous regional awards for her short fiction. She lives in Spartanburg\, SC. \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 T. M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Bren McClain
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday September 12\, 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 heart-wrenching and beautiful story of a man and his family brought to its knees by the Civil War. . . . historical fiction at its finest.”–Patti Callahan Henry\, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist T.M. Brown\, author of The Last Laird of Sapelo\, in conversation with Willie Morris Award-winning novelist Bren McClain. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, September 12\, 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 The Last Laird of Sapelo\nThe Last Laird of Sapelo is based on the tragic story of Randolph Spalding\, the youngest son of Georgia’s most well-known antebellum-era coastal planter and influential political figure\, Thomas Spalding. Following his father’s death in 1851\, Randolph parlays his father’s fame and gifted landholdings on Sapelo Island\, hobnobbing from Charleston to Savannah to Milledgeville and ultimately failing to thwart Georgia’s decision to follow South Carolina into secession by early 1861. \nWithin weeks after the assault on Fort Sumter\, Lincoln’s naval blockade threatens the entire southern coast. Colonel Randolph Spalding\, now a reluctant commander of militia\, faces a storm of life-altering events in the months that follow\, imperiling his family’s legacy\, livelihood\, and lands. He ultimately must decide between supposed justice and saving the life of a slave who exacted revenge for the murder and rape of two children on Sapelo Island. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAuthor T. M. Brown went back to school after a thirty-year sales and marketing career; his lifelong love for history\, teaching\, and coaching landed him in the classroom until he retired in 2014. He took up writing novels and has published four award-winning Southern novels. \nHe is a member of the Atlanta Writers Club\, Southeastern Writers Association\, Broadleaf Writers Association\, American Christian Fiction Writers\, and founding president of Hometown Novel Writers Association\, Inc.\, in Newnan\, Georgia. \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 Amy Paige Condon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday August 22\, 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 with Amy Paige Condon\, author of A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs\, newly released in paperback. This free event will be held on Tuesday\, August 22\, 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. \nAbout A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place\n“This is not a simple life\, my friend\, and there are no simple answers.” The late editor of the late Miami News\, Bill Baggs\, stamped these words on plain white postcards and sent them to readers who sent him hate mail―a frequent occurrence\, as Baggs\, a white editor of a prominent southern newspaper\, championed unpopular ideas in his front-page columns\, such as protecting the environment\, desegregating public schools\, and peace in Vietnam. \nUnder his leadership\, the Miami News earned three Pulitzer Prizes. For his stances\, Baggs earned a bullet hole through his office window\, police officers stationed outside his home\, and a used Mercedes outfitted with a remote starter so that if it had been rigged with a bomb\, it would blow up before he opened the door. Despite his causes and accomplishments\, when Baggs died of pneumonia in 1969 at the age of forty-five\, his story nearly died with him\, and that would have been a travesty because Baggs still has so much to teach us about how to find the answers to those not-so-simple questions\, like how to live in peace with one another? \nIn this first biography of this influential editor\, Amy Paige Condon retraces how an orphaned boy from rural Colquitt\, Georgia\, bore witness and impacted some of the twentieth century’s most earth-shifting events: World War II\, the civil rights movement\, the Cuban Missile Crisis\, and the Vietnam War. With keen intellect and sparkling wit\, Baggs seemed to be in the right place at the right time. From bombardier to reporter then accidental diplomat\, Baggs used his daily column as a bully pulpit for social justice and wielded his pen like a scalpel to reveal the truth. \n“The marquee proclaiming the most celebrated journalists of the twentieth century probably wouldn’t include Bill Baggs. But ask everyone listed on the marquee who’s missing. By unanimous consent\, they’d say Bill Baggs\, the daring\, fearless\, ‘rapscallion’ editor of the Miami News. Why? Because as Amy Paige Condon so masterfully reveals\, Baggs led them on race\, Vietnam\, the environment\, historic preservation\, land conservation\, and the liberal conversation we’re still having today. This is a necessary resurrection of a departed journalist worth celebrating.”–Hank Klibanoff\, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press\, the Civil Rights Struggle\, and the Awakening of a Nation \n“When a book keeps you riveted into the wee hours of the morning\, and then brings tears to your eyes when it ends\, you can be pretty sure it’s a winner.”–Carol McCabe Booker\, editor of Alone Atop the Hill \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nAmy Paige Condon is the founder of the Refinery Writing Studio and the associate editor of Beacon\, a quarterly news magazine published by the Savannah Morning News. She is the coauthor of Wiley’s Championship BBQ Cookbook and The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook. \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-amy-paige-condon/
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Beatriz Williams
DESCRIPTION:Sunday July 9\, 2023 – 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 Literary Center will host an afternoon with New York Times bestselling novelist Beatriz Williams\, author of The Beach at Summerly\, on Sunday\, July 9\, at 2:00 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \nAbout The Beach at Summerly\nNew York Times bestseller Beatriz Williams returns with a ravishing summer read\, taking readers back to a mid-century New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue. \nJune 1946. As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war\, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly\, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop\, daughter of Summerly’s year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island’s settlers\, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated mother\, Olive traveled the world\, married fascinating men\, and involved herself in political causes. She’s also the beloved aunt of the two surviving Peabody sons\, Amory and Shep\, with whom Emilia has a tangled romantic history. \nAs the summer wears on\, Emilia develops a deep rapport with Olive\, who urges her to leave the island for a life of adventure\, while romance blossoms with the sturdy and honorable Shep. But the heady promise of Peabody patronage is blown apart by the arrival of Sumner Fox\, an FBI agent who demands Emilia’s help to capture a Soviet agent who’s transmitting vital intelligence on the West’s atomic weapon program from somewhere inside the Summerly estate. \nApril 1954. Eight years later\, Summerly is boarded up and Emilia has rebuilt her shattered life as a professor at Wellesley College\, when shocking news arrives from Washington—the traitor she helped convict is about to be swapped for an American spy imprisoned in the Soviet Union\, but with a mysterious condition only Emilia can fulfill. A reluctant Emilia is summoned to CIA headquarters\, where she’s forced to confront the harrowing consequences of her actions that fateful summer\, and a choice that could destroy the Peabody family—and Emilia’s chance for redemption—all over again. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBeatriz Williams is the bestselling author of thirteen novels\, including Her Last Flight\, The Summer Wives\, and The Golden Hour\, as well as All the Ways We Said Goodbye\, cowritten with Lauren Willig and Karen White. \nA native of Seattle\, she graduated from Stanford University and earned an MBA in finance from Columbia University. She lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore\, where she divides her time between writing and laundry. \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: June 2023 Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson
DESCRIPTION:Register: patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWhen: Tuesday June 27\, 2023; 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.\nCost: $45\nLimited to 15 participants\nLocation: Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC) with a Zoom option \nDid you tell yourself this is the year to publish some of your family stories? Whether your goal is a family-only writing project or maybe something a lot bigger\, begin writing and sharing with other writers in this follow-up to the February class. This course will enable you to start (or continue) the process with a goal of completing a project in the fall. \nCovers Beginning the Stories\, Finding Structure in Your Many Tales\, Publication\, and What to Do after Publishing the Stories\, as well as a round-robin sharing of work with feedback. Attendance at Writing Family Stories 1 is not required. \nThis interactive writers workshop will be held as an in-person class at the Pat Conroy Literary Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort)\, with an option for remote participants to join via Zoom. \nTuesday\, June 27\, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Limited to 15 participants. $45/person. \nLearn more and register at https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nAbout our instructor: \nEstelle Ford-Williamson’s most recent book is Rising Fawn\, a novel set in Atlanta and Lookout Mountain\, GA. Previously she published Abbeville Farewell\, a Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia\, and co-wrote a memoir\, Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a ‘Lost Boy’ Refugee with Majok Marier. For four years\, she led “Writing Your Story” workshops at a senior center in the Atlanta area; a dozen students went on to publish full memoirs. \nShe has received awards for her novels and short fiction\, and offers writing workshops through the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association; she lives on nearby St. Helena Island. \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-june-2023-writing-family-stories-with-estelle-ford-williamson/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Kristen Ness
DESCRIPTION:Friday May 26\, 2023 – 5:30-6:30 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 Kristen Ness\, author of the debut novel At Loggerheads\, on Friday\, May 26\, at 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public\, this special author event will be held at the Conroy Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call 843-379-7025 to reserve in advance. \n“Kristen Ness’s At Loggerheads is a thrilling debut novel intertwined with mystery\, nature\, romance\, and betrayal. Set on a lush barrier island\, Ness offers the reader a rich sense of place in a whodunit that reflects on the meaning of home.”—New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe \nAbout At Loggerheads\nBrooke Edens\, a scientist who studies loggerhead sea turtles\, has longed for a sense of home and belonging ever since her return to Anders Isle. But something is amiss on the Lowcountry island where she grew up. For years\, loggerheads have been disappearing from the beach and development has been encroaching on the island’s natural beauty and maritime forest. \nWhen a dead body is found on the same day as a mutilated loggerhead\, Brooke uses clues from her knowledge of sea turtles to help Detective Drew Young\, her closest friend and potential love interest\, investigate the many big crimes beginning to surface on their small island. Brooke’s life is further complicated by her ex-fiancé\, Charlotte-based attorney Caldwell Madden\, who appears on the island for a work trip and to support the presidential campaign of his father\, a US Senator. \nMore than just a whodunit\, this murder mystery includes romance\, nature\, politics\, real estate\, and science. With a captivating sense of place\, the story unfolds as a love letter to the barrier islands and coastal towns of the South Carolina Lowcountry\, where the often-opposing forces of mother nature and human nature influence what people will do for money\, for power\, and for love. Amid the many revelations\, betrayals\, and twists that threaten to pull Brooke and Drew apart\, will they be able to untangle the web of crimes\, catch the murderer and\, ultimately\, find a way back to each other? \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nKristen Ness grew up mostly in South Carolina\, spending countless days with nature and falling in love with the ocean and its creatures on Isle of Palms\, where she walks the beach at sunrise each summer in search of sea turtle nests as a volunteer for the Island Turtle Team. \nWhile practicing immigration law for the past twenty years\, Kristen has been moonlighting in pursuit of her lifelong passion for writing and her obsession with marine biology. Writing\, real estate\, politics\, and even publishing run in her blood as the daughter of an English teacher and a land developer\, and the great-granddaughter of the 14th Governor of North Dakota whose family owned and published The Bismarck Tribune. She has a BA in English from Duke University\, a JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law\, and serves as an appointed member of the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Coral Advisory Panel. \nKristen lives in Charleston\, SC\, with her husband\, their two children\, two guinea pigs\, and a cat. At Loggerheads is her first novel. https://kristenness.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.
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