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The Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes Michel Stone, author of Border Child, a new novel exploring the intersections of immigration, empathy, and the American Dream, Michel will appear in conversation with Scott Graber, novelist, lawyer, and Pat Conroy's Citadel classmate...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop at Water's End, a new novel about women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town that harbors secrets as lush as the marshes surrounding it. Patti will appear in conversation with Ellen Malphrus, novelist, poet, and USCB professor of English.
This poetry workshop offers an overview of the nearly 700-year history of haiku, including many instructive examples, as well as opportunity for participants to craft their own haiku through writing exercises and critiques. The aim of the workshop is to demystify and rediscover haiku. Haiku is often explained in the language of Zen or by the syllable count. Poet Miho Kinnas approaches the form in a way that illustrates the wider and more ...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes Mark Powell, author of Small Treasons, an astonishing and powerful new novel about the search for meaning in an increasingly violent and divided world. Mark will appear in conversation with his fellow Citadel alumnus John Warley, author of A Southern Girl, Bethesda's Child, and The Moralist.
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes Karen Spears Zacharias, Weatherford Award-winning novelist and Gold Star Daughter. Zacharias, author of the new Appalachian novel Christian Bend, will appear in conversation with novelist Stephanie Austin Edwards, author of What We Set in Motion. Sponsored in part by the Pulpwood Queens book club and presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry, this event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and autographing thanks to NeverMore Books...
Therapists often suggest journaling as a way forward when grieving the loss of a loved one. For a writer, the choice seems a natural one. Yet Elizabeth Robin found expressing emotions in this way impossible when her only brother and her beloved husband both fell ill and died within a two-year span. Then she discovered she could store and express those feelings in two ways: through poems and in essays written in third person. The poems became her first book, Silk Purses and Lemonade. This workshop models the journaling process, how this transforms to poetry, and why poems offer a useful outlet for grief, and a way to offer solace to others grieving similar losses...
Presented by the Pat Conroy Literary Center, this first-ever Lowcountry Book Club Convention is an opportunity for book club members--or anyone interested in joining a book club--to meet, mingle, and exchange ideas about fostering and sustaining a community of readers. Free and open to the public, the Lowcountry Book Club Convention is sponsored by South Carolina Humanities and the Pulpwood Queens book club, and presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry and the Friends of Beaufort County Library.
Keynoting our Lowcountry Book Club Convention, the Pat Conroy Literary Center's Visiting Writers Series welcomes best-selling writer Will Schwalbe, author of Books for Living and The End of Your Life Book Club, appearing in conversation with novelist Cassandra King Conroy. Sponsored by South Carolina Humanities and the Pulpwood Queens book club, this program in presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Join Pat Conroy's Citadel Class of 1967 classmates John Warley and Scott Graber as they discuss John's newly published modern history of the Citadel—Stand Forever, Yielding Never—commemorating the famed military college's 175th anniversary.
Pat Conroy Literary Center launches the inaugural CAMP CONROY June 18-29 (8:00-4:00 p.m.) in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry. Led by children's author and artist Lisa Anne Cullen and poet Miho Kinnas, this two-week summer camp for middle-school-aged students to rising high school sophomores offers hands-on learning experiences with writing, illustrating, designing, editing, and publishing a book. The program will focus on research, exploration, and interpretation of the lowcountry's natural environment.
Now an annual event, the Pat Conroy Literary Center's Lowcountry Book Club Convention is a day of educational conversations and fellowship programs for book club members and those considering joining a book club. This free public event is presented in partnership with the Technical College of the Lowcountry and funded in part by a gift from the Pulpwood Queens book club.
New York Times bestselling novelists Wiley Cash and Jason Mott will share the stage and a lively conversation about their writing lives and about their newest books--The Last Ballad and The Crossing, respectively. Free and open to the public, this event is presented in partnership with the Technical College of the...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center's third annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention is a day of educational conversations and fellowship programs for book club members and those considering joining a book club. This free public event is presented in partnership with...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center Book Club will read and discuss all twelve of Pat Conroy's published memoirs and novels in order of publication, Each monthly session will be led by a guest discussion leader. Participants are asked...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center Book Club will read and discuss all twelve of Pat Conroy's memoirs and novels in order of publication, Led by a guest discussion leader, these monthly gatherings are free and open to the public...
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the 4th annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention as a live-streamed event on Saturday, September 12—featuring New York Times...
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the 5th annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention September 21-25
6th Annual March Forth: FREE author discussions, hosted by DAYLO, with books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books, featuring: Rebecca Hall, author of the graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts and Len Lawson and Gary Jackson, poets and co-editors of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
The second edition of the Beaufort Human Library will be held as a free public event on Sunday, November 13, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., at the Technical College of the Lowcountry's MacLean Hall (104 Reynolds St, bldg 12, Beaufort, SC), in partnership with TCL, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the Beaufort County Library System, the Storybook Shoppe, the Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, and community organizers and volunteers.
Join us for a public conversation about the forces, funding, and politics surrounding banned books, censorship, and challenges to free speech and intellectual freedom.