
The seventh annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival – October 28-30/2022!
We thank all of you who participated in previous Festivals. We met many of you personally thus allowing us to put a ‘face’ on our loyal supporters. We hope to see all of you in Beaufort at every festival. The setting and planning for 2022 Festival are in an incipient stage. Please follow this page for future news!
Seventh Annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival Features In-Person and Virtual Events
Schedule will be announced here and on the Festival Facebook page.
The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners, this year including the Crescendo festival of Hilton Head Island, the Coastal Discovery Museum, Island Writers Network, Technical College of the Lowcountry, Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce, Beaufort Bookstore, NeverMore Books, Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Beaufort High School’s DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization), and the Friends of the Beaufort Library. Grant support is provided by South Carolina Humanities, a nonprofit organization inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.
The nonprofit Conroy Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m. (with extended hours during the festival weekend) at 601 Bladen Street in historic downtown Beaufort.