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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Yes\,YOU can share your writing at Open Mic Night! Whether you are published or not\, whether you’ve written a novel\, poem\, short story or something else of interest we want to hear YOU!It’s easy\, and great exposure and practice.  \nIf you’re interested in reading as part of Open Mic night? Just email ginger@patconroyliterarycenter.org and you’ll be added to the list. \nThe Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, April 9 from 6-7:30PM. Open Mic this month will feature Jackie Markham\, and will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nAbout Our Featured Writer\nJacquelyn Markham has loved poetry since wandering through the meadow along a mint-lined brook as a child in rural Michigan. She has written poetry nearly as long\, so as a freshman in college\, she decided to make a career of it. After earning her bachelor’s degree in English\, she earned a master’s and a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. Author of two chapbooks and a personal mythology\, Peering Into the Iris: An Ancestral Journey\, she has published nationally and internationally in literary journals\, magazines\, and anthologies\, including Archive: South Carolina Poetry Since 2005\, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology\, Anthology of Appalachian Writers\, Lullwater Review\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, The High Window\, Woman and Earth\, among others. Dr. Markham enjoyed a rich academic career from which she retired as a full professor. She now mentors poets and writers\, living and writing near the coast of South Carolina.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/open-mic-night/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Joy Corley
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an outside event with childrens book author Joy Corley\, and featuring the star of the book-Percy!. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited for this free event; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nPercy Does Yoga… Not!\nPercy is an 80 pound pit bull who knows NOTHING about personal space. His goal on any given day is to lay on you\, beside you and to be as close to you as possible\, regardless of how uncomfortable you may be! This is a true story of Percy coming to understand “me vs we” time and how we can learn to give each other space and grace at the same time. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nJoy Corley\, earned her Bachelor’s Degree at the University of South Carolina. She worked in many different capacities in the field of social work until retiring in 2021\, after 24 years as a Care Coordinator at Beaufort Memorial Hospital.  \nJoy became a lover of children’s books after her son Clay was born in 1982. She always wanted to write a children’s book and was just looking for the right inspiration whenever Percy came into her life.  \nAlways an animal lover\, Percy became the new character in a long list of characters in the household she shares with her husband\, Rick and 5 other rescues. Joy also enjoys reading\, being a volunteer with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Sea Turtle Program and Beaufort County County Animal Services
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-afternoon-with-joy-corley/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T170000
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SUMMARY:Author Event with Robert Gwaltney and Bren Mcclain
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelists Robert Gwaltney and Bren McClain\, on Thursday\, April 23\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited for this free event; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nROBERT GWALTNEY\nRobert Gwaltney is the author of Sing Down the Moon (Mercer University Press\, 2026) and The Cicada Tree (Moonshine Cove Publishing\, 2022)\, works of Southern literary fiction that explore inheritance\, identity\, and the fragile boundary between the living and the dead. Rooted in the landscapes and histories of the American South\, his writing blends the gothic tradition with elements of magical realism to illuminate the forces that shape who we become. \nRaised in Cairo\, Georgia\, alongside three younger brothers in the rash-inducing subtropical heat of the region\, Gwaltney is a lifelong resident of the South — a circumstance that has left an indelible mark on his voice as a writer. Sense of place remains central to his work\, where memory\, myth\, and longing intertwine. \nBy day\, he serves as Vice President of Easterseals North Georgia\, championing early childhood literacy and strengthening families at critical stages of development. In all the hours between\, he writes. \nHe lives in Atlanta\, Georgia\, with his partner. \nBREN McCLAIN\nI got set for life at the age of three. My two loves – writing and animals – were born. \nMy daddy tells me I can’t possibly remember. But I do. The pickup truck had wooden railings around the back\, and it came around the side of our house. I was standing by our kitchen table\, watching out the window. Inside those railings was our milk cow. I called her Mama Red. And she was leaving. \nI had no idea back then that what I had witnessed and felt that day with that milk cow would shape me as a writer.  \nFast forward through getting a BA in English from Furman University in Greenville\, SC\, and teaching high school English for one year. Writing drew me again\, but this time as a journalist\, writing for my hometown newspaper\, The Anderson Daily Mail; working as a radio reporter\, and as a television reporter and anchor at various stations across the Southeast. But then I switched to corporate America\, where I became desperate to be creative and picked up a legal pad – oh yes\, I remember the date\, September 18\, 1988 – and began writing a short story called “Desperation Dance.” \nI’ll cover a lot of ground fast here: I wrote two failed novels\, got a literary agent\, lost a literary agent. But\, when I returned to what was set in motion in a three-year-old Anderson\, South Carolina\, farm girl – writing and animals – my literary career changed\, and my novel\, One Good Mama Bone\, was born. I even went so far as to write about a mama cow. I named her Mama Red. And I love her. My heart first opened with that milk cow. \n Things I wanted to say but couldn’t get worked in:\n-​2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction\n-2019 Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature\n-Long-listed for the Southern Book Prize\, Southeastern Independent Booksellers Association\n-A 2017 Great Group Reads selection by the Women’s National Book Association\n-Named top book of 2017 by Lit Picks\n-A Southern Independent Booksellers Association Okra Pick\nFinalist for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize for a debut novel set in the American South\n-Named Pulpwood Queen Book of the Year 2017\n-An excerpt from One Good Mama Bone was named a 2012 Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award for a\nNovel-in-Progress.\n-South Carolina Arts Commission awarded me the Fiction Fellowship in 2005. \nI’m a two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project (2003 and 2007). \nI grew up on a seventy-two acre beef cattle and grain farm in Anderson\, South Carolina. \nI have a twin\, and\, to this day\, we’re known as “the McClain twins.” Which is fine by me. \nI’m at work on my next novel\, Took\, which features another farm animal\, chickens. Happy to say it has won the 2016 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for Novel-in-Progress.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/author-event-with-robert-gwaltney-and-bren-mcclain/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Author Greg Howard
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an afternoon with Greg Howard\, young adult author of several books including The Whispers\, on Saturday\, April 25\, at 2:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort). Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited for this free event; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nGreg Howard was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry where his love of stories blossomed at a young age. Originally set on becoming a songwriter\, Greg followed that dream to Nashville\, Tennessee\, where he spent years producing the music of others before eventually returning to his childhood passion of writing stories. Greg writes about LGBTQ characters and issues as his focus is writing the kind of books he wishes he’d had access to as a gay kid growing up in the South. He currently resides in Nashville with his three rescued fur babies–Molly\, Toby\, and Riley. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nA middle grade debut that’s a heartrending coming-of-age tale\, perfect for fans of Bridge to Terabithia and Counting By 7s. \nEleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers\, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you leave them tributes. Riley has a lot of wishes. He wishes bullies at school would stop picking on him. He wishes Dylan\, his 8th grade crush\, liked him\, and Riley wishes he would stop wetting the bed. But most of all\, Riley wishes for his mom to come back home. She disappeared a few months ago\, and Riley is determined to crack the case. He even meets with a detective\, Frank\, to go over his witness statement time and time again. \nFrustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation\, Riley decides to take matters into his own hands. So he goes on a camping trip with his friend Gary to find the whispers and ask them to bring his mom back home. But Riley doesn’t realize the trip will shake the foundation of everything that he believes in forever.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-afternoon-with-author-greg-howard/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Author Event with Marybeth Whalen
DESCRIPTION:The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with author Marybeth Whalen in conversation with Cassandra King\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.\, Beaufort) on May 7 from 5-6:30. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited for this free event; please call in advance to reserve: 843-379-7025. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nMarybeth Mayhew Whalen is the author of Every Moment Since and 9 previous novels. Marybeth received a BA in English with a concentration in Writing and Editing from NC State University a long time ago and has been writing ever since. She is the co-founder of The Book Tide\, an online community of readers where “a rising tide raises all books.” Marybeth and her husband Curt are the parents of six kids who are now all in various stages of adulting. A native of Charlotte\, NC\, Marybeth now calls Sunset Beach\, NC home. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nA story about finding hope in the face of hardship and connection in the face of crisis\, Handle with Care is a novel for our time. \n“Rich with complex characters\, a tightly woven plot and natural suspense.” –Belle Burden\, author of Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage \nThree women walk into a post office. This is no joke–it’s the spark that ignites a life-altering crisis. \nOn a quiet spring afternoon\, an ordinary small-town post office becomes ground zero for a domestic dispute. A husband draws a weapon and seals the doors\, holding four women captive: his frightened wife\, a young woman searching for meaning amid uncertainty\, a mother on the brink of letting go as her only daughter graduates\, and an elderly woman concealing a secret that could shatter everything she knows. \nOutside\, the negotiator works to keep a fragile peace\, forced to confront her own issues as every word becomes a lifeline. \nEach of the three women who walked into the post office is carrying something that\, if mailed\, would profoundly change her life. As minutes become hours in this daylong siege\, these strangers forge lasting bonds. Handle with Care shines a light on hope found even in the darkest moments\, and illuminates how even strangers\, thrown together by chance and hardship\, have the power to change each other’s lives. \nThis heartwarming women’s fiction novel is laced with depth and humor–it’s perfect for book clubs. Discussion questions are included to prompt lively conversations.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/author-event-with-marybeth-whalen/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:Virtual Open Mic Night -- Featuring William Walsh\, Author of Haircuts for the Dead
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be presented as a virtual event\, live-streamed to our Facebook page\, on Thursday\, May 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured presenter is novelist William Walsh\, author of Haircuts for the Dead. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nInterested in reading as part of virtual Open Mic? Let us know at contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org. \nAbout Our Featured Author:\nWilliam Walsh is the author of ten books and is the editor of the James Dickey Review. He teaches at Reinhardt University and directs the undergraduate creative writing program\, as well as the low-residency MFA program. Walsh lives in Sandy Springs\, Georgia. Haircuts for the Dead is his second novel. \n“Those fortunate enough to have read William Walsh’s first novel\, LAKEWOOD\, know he is a vital voice in contemporary fiction. Now with HAIRCUTS FOR THE DEAD we can welcome a story addressing the most important concerns of our time: race\, choice in sexual identity\, the burdens of the past\, and challenges to faith. Walsh portrays the elusive dynamics within families in this era of rapid change\, as a story-within-a-story illuminates each. You will be moved by this novel of the search for a home and love\, to be found in unexpected places.” –Robert Morgan\, author of GAP CREEK \n“In Hannah Gardner’s search for both a place and a love that feel like home\, William Walsh has given us a rollicking tale of a charming heroine healing an injured heart and conquering a small part of a great big world.” –Jessica Handler\, author of THE MAGNETIC GIRL
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/virtual-open-mic-night-featuring-william-walsh-author-of-haircuts-for-the-dead/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T170000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Sallie Ann Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 22 – 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 \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nSallie Ann Robinson was born on Daufuskie Island before natives began selling their ancestral land to private corporations and individuals in the 1960s and began moving inland While she is an author in her own right\, Robinson’s literary debut actually came as the character named Ethel in Pat Conroy’s classic memoir\, The Water Is Wide.\nShe is the author of Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way: Smokin’ Joe Butter Beans\, Ol’ ’Fuskie Fried Crab Rice\, Sticky-Bush Blackberry Dumpling\, and Other Sea Island Favorites and Cooking the Gullah Way\, Morning\, Noon\, and Night and coauthor of Daufuskie Island.\nABOUT THE EVENING:\nSallie Ann will regale attendees with stories of her time on Daufuskie and her time with Pat Conroy. In addition\, her latest project is to help her and her family save their historical Gullah house on Daufuskie Island. The building was built around the 1930’s and is in need of restoration. This house and others are a part of the island history. Sallie\, her grandmother\, mother and many other were born in this house.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-sallie-ann-robinson/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T140000
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SUMMARY:An Author Event with Brynn Barineau
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE BOOK:\nSet against Henry Ford’s audacious—and ultimately disastrous—attempt to industrialize the Amazon\, Jungle of Ashes is a sweeping novel of ambition\, exploitation\, and hope. Centered on Joanna Rogge\, the daughter of an American manager\, and Rafael Caetano\, a Brazilian mechanic\, the story unfolds within Fordlandia\, the real-life rubber plantation where cultural imposition\, dangerous labor conditions\, and political upheaval collide.  \nThrough the eyes of two star-crossed lovers\, the novel reveals the human cost of unchecked power and the resilience found in connection across languages\, cultures\, and continents. Vividly researched and deeply empathetic\, Jungle of Ashes will resonate with readers of immersive historical fiction\, cross-cultural narratives\, and character-driven epics. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nFrom Atlanta to Washington DC to Rio de Janeiro to Vitoria\, Brazil and finally back to Atlanta in June 2020. (Yes. 2020.) In high school\, I studied French. In college\, Arabic. In grad school\, I studied political campaigns in India. I considered a lot of life possibilities but living in Brazil\, anywhere in South America\, was never one of them. Then I met and married the smartest man I’ve ever known\, who happened to be from Rio de Janeiro. \nAfter four years in Rio\, we moved to Vitoria. After my daughter was born in 2011\, I tried to find picture books in English about Brazil for my little Brazilian-American and came up with almost nothing. I expanded my search to chapter books\, young adult and with growing disbelief I looked for any fiction book with a connection to Brazil. \nMy research made one thing clear. In the United States\, it’s easier to find a book set in outer space than in Brazil. \nEventually I had a radical idea. Maybe I could write the books I wanted to find. \nAfter nine years of writing\, three shelved novels\, around 200 query letters\, two years out on submission to editors\, my first novel\, Jaguars and Other Game\, debuted in November\, 2022. My second novel\, Jungle of Ashes will launch with History Through Fiction on May 19\, 2026 along with the re-release of Jaguars and Other Game.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-author-event-with-brynn-barineau/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Tommy Hays in conversation with Mindy Friddle
DESCRIPTION:Sunday June 7\, 2-3:30 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 \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nTommy Hays is an acclaimed Southern writer\, whose fiction grows out of his emotional connections to places he’s lived and known—Greenville\, South Carolina; Asheville\, North Carolina; and Atlanta. His novels are The Pleasure Was Mine (St. Martin’s Press 2005)\, In the Family Way (Random House\, 1999)\, Sam’s Crossing (Atheneum 1992)\, and YA novel What I Came to Tell You (Egmont\, USA 2013). He has published stories\, profiles and book reviews in magazines\, newspapers and literary journals such as Redbook\, Our State\, The Atlanta Constitution\, The Charlotte Observer\, Smoky Mountain Living\, Still: The Journal\, The Chattahoochee Review\, and storySouth. \nThe winner of many literary awards\, he is founder and formerExecutive Director of the Great Smokies Writing Program\, UNC Asheville’s community writing program as well as Lecturer Emeritus in the Master of Liberal Arts program. \nABOUT THE BOOK-The Marriage Bed:\nA freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation—laying bare the foundation of a marriage\, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath. \nA poetry professor at a small college in Asheville\, NC\, Asa Flowers\, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on\, the couple end up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time intwenty-five years of marriage. The next morning\, he wakes to blue sky and an altered world.  \nUnfolding over a few tense weeks and told from multiple points of view\, this novel explores how a tragedy can assume as many shapes as the people it touches. Asa finds himself reckoning with torn feelings about his marriage and confusion about how to proceed in his complicated relationships with his adult children. As he gradually absorbs revelations—so much he didn’t know or understand during his long marriage—he finds himself drawn uneasily toward a new world\, one in which he must shed much of his old identity if he is to survive and\, more important\, rededicate himself to being a father.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-afternoon-with-tommy-hays-in-conversation-with-mindy-friddle/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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SUMMARY:2026 Camp Conroy Summer Camp-Save The Dates
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE!Camp Conroy is back this year!This years’ theme- AI: Artful Intelligence.\nCamp Conroy will continue to appreciate special human ability and the joy of creating art while examining how technology can help us. Campers will read\, write\, and create art independently and collaboratively under the guidance of experienced instructors and artists.\nTwo week-long camps:\nJune 8-12:Campers 8-11\nJune 22-26: Campers 12-14\nSpace is limited to 20 campers (10 each week)\, so watch for more details\, and let us know if you’re interested!
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/2026-camp-conroy-summer-camp-save-the-dates/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260618T170000
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SUMMARY:Author Event with Kerry Peresta
DESCRIPTION:Thursday June 18 – 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 \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKerry Peresta is a former advertising account executive and copywriter turned thriller whisperer\, whose sharp wit and Southern roots fuel gripping tales of suspense. After decades of crafting punchy headlines and captivating campaigns\, she traded the corporate world for full time writing and the salty air of Hilton Head Island\, South Carolina. She is the author of the Olivia Callahan Suspense series\, a five-book collection\, and standalone thriller Back Before Dawn\, all published by Level Best Books. Creator of the weekly humor column “The Lighter Side\,” 2009-2011\, Capital Journal\, Pierre\, SD; she’s also written articles for Local Life Magazine\, Lady Lowcountry Magazine\, Bluffton Breeze\, and Island Events Magazine; contributed a short story for the anthology Rock\, Roll & Ruin\, published by Down & Out Books; and co-created the mystery podcast “Guns\, Knives & Lipstick.” She is a member of Mystery Writers of America\, Sisters in Crime\, Island Writers Network\, South Carolina Writers Association\, and Int’l Thriller Writers. Discover more at kerryperesta.com. \nABOUT THE BOOK:\nIn The Shaking\, book five of Kerry Peresta’s suspense series\, Olivia Callahan faces her most perilous case yet. Years after surviving a traumatic brain injury that reshaped her identity\, Olivia is now a seasoned P.I. navigating the shadows of her past and the dangers of her present. When a seemingly routine investigation spirals into a web of deceit\, betrayal\, and a chilling conspiracy tied to her own history\, Olivia must confront forces that threaten to unravel everything she’s fought to rebuild. As secrets surface and the stakes escalate\, Olivia’s courage and cunning are pushed to the limit in a race against time to uncover the truth before it destroys her.
URL:https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/author-event-with-kerry-peresta/
LOCATION:601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, United States\, South Carolina 29902
CATEGORIES:Other
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