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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/may-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Mark Larson\, Award-winning Educator and Author
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, April 29\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe Beaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with Mark Larson\, award-winning educator and author of Working in the 21st Century: An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation\, on Monday\, April 29\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St\, #15\, Beaufort). \nLarson will be in conversation with two of the interview subjects of his book\, Dr. N’kia J. Campbell\, officer of academic initiatives for the Beaufort County School District\, and Bradley Tarrance\, principal of Robert Smalls Leadership Academy. \nFree and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please call to reserve your seat in advance: 843-525-1066. \nAbout the Book\nEsquire magazine has named Working in the 21st Century as One of the Best Books of 2024 (so far). \nFrom nurses and teachers to wildland firefighters and funeral directors—this oral history offers an intimate\, honest\, and illuminating collection of interviews that reveal what it’s like to work in America at this historic and volatile moment in time. \nAuthor Mark Larson sits down with more than one hundred workers from across the socioeconomic spectrum as they share their experiences with work and what it has meant in their lives—the good\, the bad\, the mundane\, and the profound. Doulas\, firefighters\, chefs\, hairstylists\, executives\, actors\, stay-at-home parents\, and so many more talk about what they do all day and how it aligns (or doesn’t) with what they want to be doing with their lives. The pandemic\, the ensuing “Great Resignation\,” and the current reckonings with racial justice are among the forces that are now upending and reshaping our longstanding relationships with work. Larson’s interviews display how these forces collide in the lives of average Americans as they tell their own stories with passion\, heartbreak\, and\, ultimately\, hope. \nWorking in the 21st Century asks why we show up—or don’t—to the jobs we’ve chosen\, and how the upheaval of the past few years has changed how we perceive the work we do. It will be released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Studs Terkel’s 1974 classic Working. \n“Mark Larson’s superb and robust oral storytelling brings new light to the life of work. His book explores the intricacies of people working in these 21st-century times and shows that while work has been transformed\, it is also becoming more relevant and powerful than ever.”—Laura Washington\, Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and ABC7 Chicago political analyst \n“Mark Larson appeared in one of Studs Terkel’s books and is clearly an admirer of America’s 20th-century storyteller. While Working in the 21st Century celebrates the 50th anniversary of Studs’s Working\, the book\, through its diversity and clarity\, portrays both the similarities and differences of work 50 years later. Larson is a wonderful oral historian and the stories he tells depict the realities of work at the present time. His interviews and writing bring alive the breadth and depth of what it means to live in 2024.”—Alan Wieder\, author of Studs Terkel: Politics\, Culture\, but Mostly Conversation \nAbout the Author\nMark Larson is a Chicago-based writer and educator who holds a doctorate in educational leadership. Larson has worked at Evanston Township High School\, the Field Museum\, Lincoln Park Zoo\, and National Louis University. \nHe is the author of two books on education and Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater\, for which he conducted over 300 interviews with Chicago theater artists\, past and present. He lives in Chicago with his wife\, Mary. They have twin daughters and twin grandsons. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-mark-larson-award-winning-educator-and-author/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:An Evening with poet Ray McManus
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 25\, 2024 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-379-7025.\nVenue (UPDATED): Rhett House Inn’s garden (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort) \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with award-winning poet Ray McManus\, author of The Last Saturday in America\, on Thursday\, April 25\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Rhett House Inn’s garden (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort). This is an outdoor event. 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 The Last Saturday in America\n“These are poems about boys listening to men who were once boys who listened to men\, the blind leading the blind leading the blind through the dark. Some boys grow up. Some men never do. Ray McManus has chipped away at the pageantry and performance\, the stupidity of the lie\, the outright futility of it all…. The Last Saturday In America is\, ‘a song that pays homage / to a history of work we should’ve done better.’ Here’s hoping one day we do.” —David Joy\, author of Those We Thought We Knew\, from the introduction \nFor fans of Americana music and a beer after mowing the lawn\, The Last Saturday in America confronts the long shadow of Southern masculinity. \nThe Last Saturday in America is set in a nation on the precipice of great change. Through examinations of suburban neighbors\, bullies\, gun violence\, and vasectomy appointments\, Ray McManus draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division\, pandemic\, and cultural warfare. McManus’s speaker is caught between the way he was raised and the future he wants to see for who he is raising. He can no longer rely on what he thought he knew\, nor does he know what to do about it. The man rendered in these pages is a father\, a son\, a Southerner. And he is willing to burn it all down and start something new\, only to see that the new start he is looking for has been with him the whole time. \nAbout Ray McManus\nRay McManus is the author of four books of poetry: Punch. (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Book Award for Best Book of Poetry in North America)\, Red Dirt Jesus (selected by Alicia Ostriker for the Marick Press Poetry Prize 2011)\, and Driving through the country before you are born (winner of the South Carolina Book Prize in 2006)\, and a chapbook called Left Behind. He is the co-editor for the anthology Found Anew with notable contributors with South Carolina ties. His poems have been published in numerous journals such as Crazyhorse\, Prairie Schooner\, and POETRY magazine. \nHe lives in South Carolina where he teaches for USC Sumter and serves as the Writer in Residence for the Columbia Museum of Art. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-poet-ray-mcmanus/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:Evening with novelist Carolyn P. Hartley\, author of the Buried Sunshine Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\, 2024 – 5-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: $15 (includes a glass of wine and refreshments by Mimi Rodrigues)\nRegistration: Register at Eventbrite\nVenue: The Rhett House Inn | 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center\, in collaboration with the award-winning Rhett House Inn\, will host an evening with historical novelist Carolyn P. Hartley\, author of the Buried Sunshine Series\, on Thursday\, April 18\, at 5:00-7:00 p.m.\, at the Rhett House Inn (1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort). $15 registration fee includes a glass of wine and refreshments by Mimi Rodrigues. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nRegister at Eventbrite \n“The Buried Sunshine Series is a courageous family saga\, a sizzling coming of age story\, as heroine\, Adele Dawson discovers her roots in this action-adventure series.”—Millie West\, award-winning author and screenwriter awards \nAbout Book One: Redemption\nGreed is invisible until you see the damage it inflicts on innocent children. Redemption exposes raw families caught between social lines when federal funds\, intended to trickle down from corporate landowners never makes it into the hands of tenant farmers. \nWhen agriculture was the bedrock of the American economy\, families\, suddenly penniless lost nearly everything in historic floods\, bank failures\, political and social annihilation. But at their core\, one family would not let catastrophes defeat them. Adele Christina Dawson\, the oldest stepchild of an imbittered farmer\, is suddenly thrust into adulthood when her mother dies giving birth to a tenth child. \n“Adele Dawson is intelligent\, feisty\, and strong\, and she emits a beam that carries this story forward\, that lifts it up from the rushing current of thick Mississippi Mud.”—Main Street Rag \nAbout Book Two: Reconciliation\nAdele Dawson\, finally back with her West Virginia birth family\, is driven to learn why her father died so young and why her mother remarried despicable August Beck\, a con artist\, then gave birth to eight of his children. When her half-sisters also come to live with her\, they get wise to a secret museum of treasures in Adele’s once-lavish stone mansion. She unlocks secrets inside a locked trunk about her mother’s coerced life in corruption\, greed\, and extortion\, secrets that now threaten to extinguish the entire family. \nHer paternal grandmother’s final wish is that Adele rebuild the family’s coal mine\, nearly bankrupt from the Depression\, and restore the river stone mansion to its original beauty. The more involved she becomes in the mining business\, the more she discovers her mother’s enemies have concealed themselves within the family business. On the verge of gaining trust from superstitious coal miners\, her saboteur stepfather creates mine blasts that injure workers\, forcing the reconstruction to miss critical deadlines. \n“This thrilling novel series leaves the reader spellbound with a story that captures everything a reader could wish for. Once you start reading you won’t stop. A must read.”—William A Petty\, historian\, curator\, and author \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nCarolyn P. Hartley is an award-winning author\, most recently for the Buried Sunshine novel series: Redemption (2019)\, Reconciliation (2022)\, and Rebellion (forthcoming 2024). \nReconciliation achieved #1 bestseller rank in seven Amazon categories\, including American History Romance. She is lead author of The Caregiver’s Toolbox (CTB)\, an Amazon #1 hot new release for nine consecutive weeks in two healthcare categories. After six years\, CTB is still a popular backlist title. \nIn prior careers\, Carolyn was a book packager for Prentice Hall\, McGraw-Hill\, Universal Press Syndicate\, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, and VP of marketing and communications for Fleishman Hillard International\, where she placed clients on The Today Show\, CBS This Morning\, Good Morning America\, Fox and Friends\, among others. Carolyn publishes her creative non-fiction\, essays\, and short stories in literary and consumer magazines\, including North American Literary Review\, Child\, Whispering Prairie Press\, Family Circle\, and Working Women’s Magazine\, and\, for six years she was a columnist for Woman’s World. She developed public service announcements for Al Franken\, Miss America\, and the Points of Light Foundation. She also is founder of JMerrillPress\, LLC\, an independent woman-owned publisher that focuses on women of courage. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/evening-with-novelist-carolyn-p-hartley-author-of-the-buried-sunshine-series/
LOCATION:The Rhett House Inn\, 1009 Craven St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:April 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, April 11\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is poet Heather Corbally Bryant\, author of The Coffin Makers. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, April 11\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Virtual  \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 The Coffin Makers\n“Heather Corbally Bryant’s eleventh collection of poetry shows her deepening grasp of language\, and follows her grappling with the exigencies of a global pandemic in both intricate and plainspoken poetry.”–Laura Munson\, bestselling author and founder of Haven Writing Retreats \n“In The Coffin Makers\, Heather Corbally Bryant offers us poetic witness to a world turned upside down by catastrophic fear\, in clear\, beautiful poems\, marking out our moments of grief\, isolation and hope\, step by step. These poems will remain with us as graceful testament to our moment of crisis.”–Eibhear Walshe\, Director of Creative Writing\, University College Cork \nAbout our featured writer:\nHeather Corbally Bryant is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. She has also taught at Harvard\, the University of Michigan and the Pennsylvania State University where she has won awards for her teaching. She has written eleven books of poetry\, a prize-winning academic book\, How Will the Heart Endure: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of War\, and a work of creative nonfiction\, You Can’t Wrap Fire in Paper. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, the Massachusetts Book Award\, and have won Honorable Mention in the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/april-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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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://new.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
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/march-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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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://new.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
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/afternoon-with-award-winning-novelist-jeffrey-dale-lofton/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:Evening with Raj Haldar\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Banned
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, February 22\, 2024 from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.\nWhere: Technical College of the Lowcountry | 104 Reynolds St Beaufort\, SC 29902\nRegistration: Free Tickets at Eventbrite \nJoin us for a free\, family-friendly evening of story and song with Raj Haldar\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Banned. This special event is hosted by the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center in collaboration with the Storybook Shoppe\, DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization)\, and the Technical College of the Lowcountry. \nFollowing Raj’s musical storytelling performance\, he will be in conversation with the students of DAYLO to discuss the importance of intellectual freedom and pro-literacy advocacy. \nThis event will be held at the Technical College of the Lowcountry\, Bldg 12\, McLean Hall\, 104 Reynolds St.\, Beaufort\, on Thursday\, February 22\, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Attendance is free with advance online registration. Books will be available for sale and signing after the program through the Storybook Shoppe children’s bookstore. Register Here. \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nABOUT THIS BOOK IS BANNED\nFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of P Is for Pterodactyl Raj Haldar comes a silly and irreverent new picture book all about sharing ideas. \nThis is a book about dinosaurs. No\, it’s not. Dinosaurs are not allowed. \nOh. This is now a book about avocados! Sorry. We deleted those too. \nFINE. This book is about―nope! Forbidden! \nMaybe you shouldn’t even try reading this book…But what could possibly be inside? \nDiscover just what can happen when ideas are erased instead of expressed with this hilarious picture book romp that kids (and grown-ups) will want to read over and over again. This Book Is Banned is a funny\, engaging book perfect for families to read aloud with kids of all ages\, parents eager to share a laugh while addressing meaningful themes\, educators looking for an entertaining resource to discuss important issues\, and readers with a penchant for humor\, vibrant illustrations\, and thoughtful content. \n“A funny\, thought-provoking book that opens the door to discussion about book banning with younger children.”―School Library Journal\, STARRED review \n“Well done and adorably funny… a really great introduction to the subject of banned books for little ones.”―Youth Services Book Review\, STARRED review \n“A zany\, fourth wall–breaking exploration of book banning.”―Kirkus Reviews \n“Haldar and Patton employ absurdist hijinks to explore the practice of book banning… By story’s end\, readers will likely have had at least one beloved subject ousted―potentially prompting conversation about real-world events.”―Publishers Weekly \n“The adult-child combination who reads This Book Is Banned together will have fun discussing the issue of banning in the hypothetical\, thanks to the busy and engaging illustrations and text that await them. Young children will want you to read it to them over and over again… Strongly reminiscent of The Monster at the End of This Book.”―NY Journal of Books \nAbout the author: \nRaj Haldar is the author of the #1 New York Times Bestselling picture book P is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever. But\, for close to a decade\, he has been better known as Lushlife\, the rapper\, producer\, and multi-instrumentalist. In that time\, he’s amassed a fervent global fanbase and released award-winning viral music videos that highlight his erudite lyrics. \nThe Sunday New York Times describes his work as “an intoxicating mix of captivating rhymes with audacious\, gorgeous production.” So it should come as no surprise that Haldar has made the leap into the world of children’s literature. His latest book\, entitled This Book is Banned\, gives young readers a lighthearted entry point to begin understanding the dangers of book banning and censorship. His work has been featured by The Washington Post\, Interview Magazine\, VICE\, Pitchfork\, Village Voice\, Mental Floss\, BBC\, SPIN and more. Raj currently lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife and two young daughters. \nDuring his visit to the Lowcountry\, Raj will also be appearing as a featured author at the Palmetto State Literacy Association annual conference and visiting local schools. He last appeared with leaders of DAYLO in a Banned Books Week national livestream for the Children’s Book Council\, hosted by Pat R. Scales\, and subsequently featured in Publishers Weekly. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/evening-with-raj-haldar/
LOCATION:Technical College of the Lowcountry – Building 12 Auditorium\, 104 Reynolds Street\, Bldg 12\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:February 2024 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:The Pat Conroy Literary Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held virtually on Thursday\, February 8\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is mystery novelist Sally Handley\, author of The Mystery of the Bogus Blooms. Open Mic will also feature short readings of 3 to 5 minutes each by other writers in many genres. \nWhen: Thursday\, February 8\, 2024 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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 The Mystery of the Bogus Blooms\nWhen Holly Donnelly gets invited to speak about home-composting at Pineland Park Community College’s Eco-Fair\, the last thing she and her sister Ivy expect is to become involved in\, not one\, but two murder investigations. Throw in a controversy over a student GMO experiment that yields unexpected results\, and once again the gardening duo find themselves called upon to help those falsely accused. Are the murders and the experiment connected? Can the stalwart sisters find the real killer and save the students’ scholarships? Not without a little help from their friends. Joining them to solve the mystery are trusted allies from past adventures\, Kate Farmer and her neighbors\, Benny and Razor\, along with the plucky Peppy Alvarez and rookie FBI agent Nicky Manelli. \nAbout our featured writer:\nSally Handley is author of the Holly & Ivy cozy mystery series and the stand-alone suspense novel\, Stop the Threat. She also writes a series on the Kindle Vella platform entitled The Adventures of Trixie\, written from her faithful companion’s point of view. A member of Sisters in Crime\, Sally hosts a monthly on-line Mystery Book Club and a Meet the Authors Series on her YouTube Channel\, @sallyhandley1430. For more information\, visit her website at www.sallyhandley.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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/february-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Jeffrey Blount\, author of Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, in conversation with Rebecca Dwight Bruff
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 1\, 2024 – 5:00-7:00 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Eventbrite\nVenue: Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce | 711 Bladen Street Beaufort\, SC 29902 \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 award-winning writer Jeffrey Blount\, author of the newly published novel Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\, in conversation with fellow novelist Rebecca Dwight Bruff\, author of Trouble the Water. Free and open to the public\, this event will be held at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St.\, on Thursday\, February 1\, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. A reception will follow the author’s presentation\, with books available for sale and signing through the Beaufort Bookstore. \nAbout Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way\nAfter a highly publicized fall from grace\, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before\, one that has been neglected and ignored by everyone in rural Ham\, Mississippi. A place of abject poverty\, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.” \nWithin a place forgotten by the rest of the world\, politics can be a dangerous game. When a troubling discovery is made\, the entire neighborhood is rocked to its core and James is forced to confront his own past in order to help the community have a future. He will have to find the strength to fight for the neighbors he once disregarded and avert a heart-breaking disaster. \nA self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns\, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a story about failure\, self-discovery\, empowerment\, and the possibility of redemption. \n“Blount makes us pause to take an up-close look at poverty and racism in our collective backyard. This powerful novel shows the true meaning of ‘it takes a village\,’ and that doing the right thing should be color blind.”—Karen White\, New York Times bestselling author \n“This tender story is for any of us who have fallen and found the only way up is by reaching out a hand to others.” —Cassandra King\, author of Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nJeffrey is the award-winning author of three novels. His most recent book\, The Emancipation of Evan Walls was the winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for African American fiction. \nHe is also an Emmy award-winning television director and a 2016 inductee to the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame. During a 34-year career at NBC News\, Jeffrey directed a decade of Meet The Press\, the Today show\, NBC Nightly News\, and major special events. He is the first African-American to direct the Today show. He is also an award-winning documentary scriptwriter for films and interactives that are now on display in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2017 and 2018\, Jeffrey served as Journalist in Residence and Shapiro Fellow at the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. A Virginia native\, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in Communications/Broadcast Journalism. Born and raised in Smithfield\, Virginia\, he now lives in Washington\, DC. \nABOUT THE INTERVIEWER\nRebecca Dwight Bruff is the author of the award-winning debut novel\, Trouble the Water\, published June 2019\, and the non-fiction book\, Loving the World with God\, published 2014. \nBruff earned her Bachelors degree in education at Texas A&M University and Master and Doctorate degrees in theology\, both from Southern Methodist University. In 2017\, she was a scholarship recipient for the prestigious Key West Literary Seminar. She lives and writes in the South Carolina lowcountry. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-jeffrey-blount-and-rebecca-dwight-bruff/
LOCATION:Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, 711 Bladen St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-pam-webber-author-of-life-dust/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-scott-gould-in-conversation-with-mindy-friddle/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-johnathon-scott-barrett-author-of-ship-watch/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240111T193000
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/january-2024-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240103T183000
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-colleen-coble-and-rhonda-mcknight/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231214T180000
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SUMMARY:December 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, December 14\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Robert Maynor\, author of The Big Game Is Every Night\, winner of the South Carolina Novel Series. \nWhen: Thursday\, December 14\, 2023 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:\nRobert Maynor is from the Lowcountry of South Carolina. He lives and writes in a patched-up fish camp on the bank of the Edisto River\, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in North America. His fiction explores the spectrum of complexities and contradictions in the contemporary American South. His short stories have appeared in Blood Orange Review\, BULL\, The Carolina Quarterly\, and CRAFT\, among other outlets. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and he is the past recipient of the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the Coker Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors. The Big Game Is Every Night is his debut novel. www.robertmaynor.com \n“Written in spare yet evocative prose\, Robert Maynor’s The Big Game is Every Night is a quiet and powerful meditation on broken families\, fractured friendships\, the pain of reckoning with having the thing that most defines you taken away in an instant\, and the legacy violence leaves in its wake.”—John Vercher\, author of After the Lights Go Out \n“One of the most honest works of fiction I have ever read. The Big Game Is Every Night is a bruised and brutal debut about a boy on the precipice of manhood and all the terror it entails. Maynor’s novel made me want to cradle my two sons and never let go.” —J.C. Sasser\, author of Gradle Bird \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/december-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231208T183000
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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://new.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
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231207T183000
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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.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-halle-hill-author-of-good-women/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T193000
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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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-linda-lovely-author-of-a-killer-app/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T183000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 27\, 2023 – 5:00-6:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free\nRegistration: Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066.\nVenue: Beaufort Bookstore | 2127 Boundary St. #15\, Beaufort \nWebsite: Facebook Event Page \nBeaufort Bookstore and the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with poet and writer Quitman Marshall\, author of Swampitude: Escapes with the Congaree\, on Monday\, November 27\, at 5:00 p.m. at the Beaufort Bookstore (2127 Boundary St #15\, Beaufort). \nThis event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for sale and signing. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your spot: 843-525-1066. \nABOUT Swampitude\nA Finalist for the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Book Prize \n“Swampitude is the kind of book I look for…. I love its mix of the land and the personal and the philosophical. It’s marvelous….”–Joe Mackall\, editor\, River Teeth Journal \nSwampitude: Escapes with the Congaree explores and meditates upon the social\, literary\, historical\, personal\, ecological\, psychological\, and political meanings of a swamp: swamps in general\, and a particular swamp\, the Congaree in the center of South Carolina\, which has been designated a United Nations Biosphere Reserve and is now Congaree National Park. \nA magical place of escape and fecundity\, the Congaree Swamp\, emblematic of all such often forbidding terrains\, is the largest old-growth river bottom forest in the United States. It is in the American South and has filtered much of that region’s history. The Congaree is also lucky to have gathered an environmental movement\, escaped the fate of most similar wetlands\, and to continue to flood\, drain\, and provide refuge for all creatures in need of it. This book celebrates the survival\, the stories\, and the continuance of such places. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nBorn in South Carolina\, Quitman Marshall grew up in the swamp. He has published five books of poetry\, including You Were Born One Time (2014)\, which won the SC Poetry Archives Book Prize. A winner of the Writers Exchange Award sponsored by Poets and Writers\, Inc.\, and the founding coordinator of the Literary Series at the Spoleto Festival\, USA\, he has lived in Barcelona\, Washington\, DC\, Amherst\, MA\, New York City\, the suburbs of Paris\, and presently in Beaufort\, SC\, with his family. He works as a writer\, editor\, translator\, and teacher. \nPeggy Peattie is a multiple award-winning photo-journalist with 40 years experience. She worked for a decade in Los Angeles before joining The State newspaper in SC. There she published Down in Dixie\, a documentary of the racial tensions around the confederate flag. Back in San Diego\, she concentrates on stories of the border with Mexico and the unhoused community. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-quitman-marshall-author-of-swampitude/
LOCATION:Beaufort Bookstore\, 2127 Boundary St\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T183000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Patricia Foster
DESCRIPTION:CANCELED: This scheduled event has been canceled due to the presenter’s COVID diagnosis. We regret the inconvenience to those who have registered. \nWednesday November 15\, 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 award-winning writer Patricia Foster\, author of Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, on Wednesday\, November 15\, 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 Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\n“Taking a cue from James Baldwin\, who found the innocence of privileged white Americans appalling\, Patricia Foster has recounted her own trajectory from clueless small-town Southern girl to a hard-won loss of innocence about the reality of racism…. A stunningly written\, unique and vital memoir.”–Phillip Lopate\, editor of The Art of the Personal Essay from the Classical Period to the Present \nIn Written in the Sky: Lessons of a Southern Daughter\, award-winning essayist Patricia Foster provides a double portrait of her family and her native region. A book of deeply personal essays\, Foster interrogates the legacy of racial tension in the South and the way race\, class\, gender\, and white privilege are entwined in her family story. \nInterviewing girls at Booker T. Washington High School in Tuskegee\, Alabama\, visiting the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery\, Alabama\, and exploring Africatown in Plateau\, Alabama\, Foster reflects on the racial scars and crossroads in her southern past as a way to reckon with the intimate places of her region’s wounding and grief. \nIn this story of the South\, a sense of place emerges not only from family histories and cultural traditions but also from wrestling with a culture’s irreconcilable ideas; the hard push to determine what matters. For Foster\, what matters are the shadow stories beneath our mythologies\, the complicated and radiant narratives that must be excavated and reckoned with. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nPatricia Foster is the author of All the Lost Girls (PEN/Jerard Award)\, Just beneath My Skin (starred Kirkus Review)\, Girl from Soldier Creek (SFA Fiction Award)\, and editor of four anthologies\, including Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul. \nShe has won a Pushcart\, a Florida Arts Council Award\, an Iowa Dean’s Scholar Award\, a Clarence Cason Award\, a Yaddo fellowship and many other awards. She graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has been a professor in the MFA Program in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa for 25 years. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-patricia-foster/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:November 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for November is Halle Hill\, author of the story collection Good Women. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, November 9\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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:\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“In Good Women\, Halle Hill gifts us an unflinching peek at women who are trying\, women who are aching\, women who are running their hands along the walls of their dark hearts\, fumbling for the light. Important and beautifully written\, this collection is alive with bite and verve tick-tick-ticking on every page.”—Leesa Cross-Smith\, author of Whiskey & Ribbons \n“A stunning slow burn brimming with observation\, emotion\, and incident.”—Kirkus Reviews\, Starred Review \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/november-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Novelist Maddie Dawson
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 2\, 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 novelist Maddie Dawson\, author of Snap Out of It\, on Thursday\, November 2\, 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 Snap Out of It\nA funny\, warmhearted novel about falling in love\, falling apart\, and pulling it all together again by the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners. \nAfter three marriages and a lot of living\, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she’s reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny\, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who’s been burned by that four-letter word\, LOVE\, by hopping about and whisking away sad mementos from their past relationships. Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT. \nAs Billie’s business goes viral and skyrockets her to sudden fame\, her comfortable life turns surreal: her daughter’s marriage begins to fail\, and Victor\, aka Worst Husband Ever\, wants not only to bond with the daughter he left but to win Billie back. Only\, he’s got competition: a charming widower might be falling in love with a woman who no longer believes in love. As every romantic notion Billie had pushed away starts pushing back\, the Heartbreak Bunny must confront the possibility that\, just maybe\, love has some tricks left up its sleeve. \n“Snap Out of It is a laugh-out-loud delight from start to finish with characters that are drawn with a unique wisdom and insight into human nature. My heart is full\, and I am still smiling. I absolutely loved this book.”―Annabel Monaghan\, author of Nora Goes Off Script \n“Maddie Dawson has a rare ability to craft quirky\, offbeat characters that are also utterly believable. Dawson is at the top of her game with Snap Out of It\, a magical\, wise\, tender\, joyously relatable read. From the moment Billie the Heartbreak Bunny stepped onto the page\, I felt as though I’d met a soulmate.” ―Marie Bostwick\, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Restoration of Celia Fairchild \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nMaddie Dawson is the bestselling author of eleven novels and three non-fiction humor books about parenting. (Well\, three of them were bestsellers\, anyway.) Maddie was born in the South and thinks the whole country should adopt the word “y’all\,” but up in the Northeast\, where she now has lived for 40 years\, they are putting up resistance to this effort of hers\, preferring “youse guys.” www.maddiedawson.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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-novelist-maddie-dawson/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:October 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the South Carolina Writers Association and the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce\, the Conroy Center’s monthly Open Mic Night will be held at Sandies (711 Bladen St.) on Thursday\, October 12\, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. Our featured writer is Brooke McKinney\, author of the debut poetry collection The Distance Between Birds. \nWhen: Thursday\, October 12\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Sandies (711 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:\nBrooke McKinney is a poet and writer from South Georgia where she grew up on a farm and was raised by bulldogs. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Valdosta State University and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University. \nBrooke’s work was a finalist in the Key West Emerging Writer’s Contest and the World’s the Best Short-Short Story. Her nonfiction has received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference\, and Writers in Paradise. Her poetry collection\, The Distance Between Birds\, is forthcoming October 2023. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Awards and most recently\, her poetry was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Florida Review\, Copper Nickel\, New South\, Salt Hill Journal\, Potomac Review\, The Southeast Review\, Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO Poetry\, Artemis and Kestrel. She lives in Beaufort\, SC\, with two dogs\, Jane and Arlo. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/october-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Sandies\, 711 Bladen St.\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Terah Shelton Harris
DESCRIPTION:Friday October 6\, 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 natural pick for book clubs―there is plenty to discuss in this thought-provoking\, moving story of forgiveness\, unexpected connection\, and the myriad ways people protect those they love.”―Booklist \nThe nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host an evening with novelist Terah Shelton Harris\, author of One Summer in Savannah\, on Friday\, October 6\, at 5:00 p.m.\, at the Conroy Center (601 Bladen St.). Books will be available for sale and signing in partnership with Beaufort Bookstore. Please register in advance at 843-379-7025. \nAbout One Summer in Savannah\nIt’s been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah\, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter\, Alana\, came into this world\, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional wounds Sara would do anything to forget. But when Sara’s father falls ill\, she’s forced to return home and face the ghosts of her past. \nWhile caring for her father and running his bookstore\, Sara is desperate to protect her curious\, outgoing\, genius daughter from the Wylers\, the family of the man who assaulted her. Sara thinks she can succeed―her attacker is in prison\, his identical twin brother\, Jacob\, left town years ago\, and their mother are all unaware Alana exists. But she soon learns that Jacob has also just returned to Savannah to piece together the fragments of his once-great family. And when their two worlds collide―with the type of force Sara explores in her poetry and Jacob in his astrophysics―they are drawn together in unexpected ways. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nTerah Shelton Harris is a collection development librarian based in Alabama and a freelance writer. She has been published in Women’s Health\, Natural Solutions\, Every Day with Rachael Ray\, Backpacker\, Draft\, and Women’s Adventure. \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-terah-shelton-harris/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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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.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-susan-beckham-zurenda/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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SUMMARY:September 2023 Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly virtual Open Mic Night is presented in partnership between the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the South Carolina Writers Association. Our featured writer for September is Yvette R. Murray\, author of the poetry collection Hush\, Puppy. Join us live on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page for readings by a pantheon of participating writers from in and beyond our South Carolina lowcountry. \nWhen: Thursday\, September 14\, 2023 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT\nPrice: Free · Duration: 1 hr 30 min\nWhere: Facebook Live \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:\nYvette R. Murray is an award-winning poet and writer. She has been published in Chestnut Review\, Emrys Journal\, Litmosphere\, A Gathering Together\, and others. She is the 2022 Susan Laughter Meyers Poetry Fellow\, a 2021 Best New Poet selection\, a Watering Hole Fellow\, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She is a board member of the South Carolina Writer’s Association and the Poetry Society of South Carolina\, and a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. @MissYvettewrites. \n“Yvette Murray offers a collection that is so shrimp and grits\, so Gullah\, so Battery\, so Charleston. She invites us to taste\, feel\, and breathe her Charleston. She exercises her poetry muscles with traditional forms and lifts voices that Carolinians have heard all their lives. Let her be your tour guide through the pain and the joy. How grateful we are to share in her witness.”–Len Lawson\, author of Chime and co-editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism\, Black Comics\, and Superhero Poetry \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://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/september-2023-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Online – Facebook Live
CATEGORIES:Author Interview,Open Mic Night
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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.
URL:https://new.patconroyliterarycenter.org/calendar/an-evening-with-t-m-brown/
LOCATION:Pat Conroy Literary Center\, 601 Bladen Street\, Beaufort\, SC\, 29902\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Interview
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