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Panel discussion: Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Discussion

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This panel features Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion discussion, featuring Pat Conroy’s Citadel classmates . Panel Members: Scott Graber and John Warley Moderator: Writer and Citadel research fellow Maggie Schein Advanced registration required, this is a ticketed event and includes screening, reunion panel, and reception FRIDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Movie Screening of the Lords of Discipline 2. Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Panel Discussion 3. Reception and Book Signing at the Pat Conroy Literary Center Buy Bundle Ticket Here

$45

Reception and Book Signing: at Pat Conroy Literary Center

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Reception and Book Signing at the center (308 Charles Street) - come and have a glass of wine and light refreshments with us. Book signing authors: Cassandra King Conroy, Tim Conroy, Melissa Conroy, Ellen Malphrus, Maggie Schein, Catherine Seltzer, and John Warley. Advanced registration required, this is a ticketed event and includes screening, reunion panel, and reception FRIDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Movie Screening of the Lords of Discipline 2. Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Panel Discussion 3. Reception and Book [...]

$45

Panel discussion: Children’s Authors and Artists Panel

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This panel features children’s authors and artists followed by a book signing. Panel Members: Melissa Conroy, Florence Minor, and Wendell Minor Moderator: Kim Shealy Jeffcoat, director of the South Carolina Center for Children’s Books and Literacy This is a ticketed event - Buy Tickets here

$10

Workshop: Creative Organization for Writers

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Finding time for writing is a challenge for many, so let’s learn to make the most of limited time through being better organized for creativity. This class offers productivity advice and tools on how to get started and keep going for maximum creative flow and minimum technical frustration. Novelist and writing teacher and consultant Stephanie Austin Edwards will guide participants through making and maintaining a writing schedule; organizing documents and files for consistent easy access; formatting work for submission to editors, agents, and publishers; discussing [...]

$25

Conversation: The Transformative Power of Education in the Life of Robert Smalls

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Transformative Power of Education in the Life of Robert Smalls, features Cate Lineberry, author of Be Free or Die: The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls’ Escape from Slavery to Union Hero, in conversation with Michael Boulware Moore, president and CEO of International African American Museum and great-great grandson of Robert Smalls, introduced by Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor commissioner Victoria Smalls, followed by a book signing. Ticket information: Advance registration required, ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here

$15

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free

Screening: Corridor of Shame: The Neglect of South Carolina’s Rural Schools

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Screening of Corridor of Shame: The Neglect of South Carolina’s Rural Schools (featuring a video introduction by Pat Conroy), presented by filmmaker Bud Ferillo  Ticket information: Advance registration required, ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here

$10

Workshop: Book Publishing & Marketing – An Insider’s Guide

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

You’ve written a book! Now what? Rockelle Henderson, a New York publishing insider and founder of the Bluffton Book Festival will outline the steps toward publishing successfully among today’s many options. This workshop will teach writers how to position their books for the appropriate target audience by first understanding and committing to that audience. The class offers insight into what it really means to be published in a market in which publication can take an increasing number of forms, and how marketing and distribution play [...]

$25

Panel discussion: Cookbook Author Panel

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This panel features Debbi Covington, Nathalie Dupree, Matt and Ted Lee (The Lee Bros.), and Sallie Ann Robinson. A book signing follows. Moderator: Southern writer Ellen Malphrus Ticket information: Advance registration required, ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here

$15

Performance: the musical Conrack

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Performance of the musical Conrack, written and directed by Granville Burgess, produced by Bonnie Hargrove, presented by the Beaufort Community Theater and featuring an all-local cast. Based on the book The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy. Advance registration required, ticketed event includes Musical, Conversation with William Dufford and Cake Reception & Book Signing SATURDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Conrack, the Musical 2. William E Dufford in conversion with Carl B. Epps III 3. Cake reception and book signing [...]

$40

Conversation: William E. Dufford and Carl B. Epps III

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Pat Conroy’s Beaufort High School principal William E. Dufford, author of My Tour through the Asylum: A Southern Integrationist’s Memoir, in conversation with his former student, attorney Carl B. Epps III. Advance registration required, ticketed event includes Musical, Conversation with William Dufford and Cake Reception & Book Signing SATURDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Conrack, the Musical 2. William E Dufford in conversion with Carl B. Epps III 3. Cake reception and book signing Buy Bundle Ticket Here

$40

Reception and Book Signing: Cake reception with William E. Dufford

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Cake reception and book signing with William E. Dufford. Advance registration required, ticketed event includes Musical, Conversation with William Dufford and Cake Reception & Book Signing SATURDAY BUNDLE TICKET: Use this one ticket for 3 events: 1. Conrack, the Musical 2. William E Dufford in conversion with Carl B. Epps III 3. Cake reception and book signing Buy Bundle Ticket Here

$40

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( October 22 – 1)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Brunch with Cassandra King Conroy, Melissa Conroy and Tim Conroy

Dataw Island Club 100 Dataw Dr, St Helena Island, SC, United States

Brunch with Cassandra King Conroy, author of Moonrise, Melissa Conroy, author and artist of The Lowcountry Coloring Book, and Tim Conroy, author of Theologies of Terrain; to be held at the Dataw Island Club (100 Dataw Dr., St. Helena Island) 11 am to 1:00 pm (Novelist Ann Kidd Taylor is unable to attend due to illness. Our thanks to the Conroys for filling in with a living conversation about their writing lives.) Advance registration required. Included in the festival weekend pass or available as a [...]

$42

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (308 Charles Street) will be open special hours during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival. Free and open to the public. Donations welcome.

Free

Book Fair: Children’s Authors & Artists Book Fair

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Children’s Authors & Artists Book Fair featuring Melissa Conroy and lowcountry children’s book authors and artists Patricia (Nolia) Biggerstaff,  Amey Lewis, Katie Stagliano, Nina Leipold, and others. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Free
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Gallery Talk: Pat Conroy and the Transformative Power of Teachers

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Humanizing Teaching: Pat Conroy and the Transformative Power of Teachers Drawn from materials in the Pat Conroy Archive at the University of South Carolina Libraries, this exhibit explores Pat Conroy as a lifelong teacher and learner. Beginning with Conroy’s time as a student at Beaufort High School during his Junior and Senior years, moving to journals and letters he wrote during his time teaching on Daufuskie and finally, highlighting addresses and writings from his career as a bestselling author where he advocated for teachers, this exhibit demonstrates how much Conroy admired, encouraged and championed educators and educational equality.

Free

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort (October 22 – 2)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the second annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

Performance: Final performance of the musical Conrack

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Final performance of the musical Conrack, written and directed by Granville Burgess, produced by Bonnie Hargrove, presented by the Beaufort Community Theater and featuring an all-local cast. Based on the book The Water Is Wide, by Pat Conroy. Please note that Pat Conroy Literary Festival passes include admittance to the Saturday, October 21, performance. Tickets for the Sunday, October 22, performance must be purchased separately through the USCB Center for the Arts box office. Ticket information: Advance registration required, ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here

$30

Guided Tour: Of The Former Beaufort High School (2)

Beaufort Middle School 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd, Beaufort, SC, United States

Guided Tour of the Former Beaufort High School (now Beaufort Middle School, 2501 Mossy Oaks Rd.), where Pat Conroy was a student for his junior and senior years and where he returned to teach for two years following his graduation from The Citadel and before his year of teaching on Daufuskie Island. Tours will be led by Pat’s BHS classmates, teachers, students, and colleagues. Ticket information: Advance registration required - Buy Tickets Here

$25

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House (November 1)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 10:00 am to 4:00 pm during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival.

Free

Exhibit – Pat Conroy Literary Festival 2018: Sketches of contributors to “Our Prince of Scribes” (November 1)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Debuting during our third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival this November 1-4, the Conroy Center will host a special exhibition of author, artist, and editor Nicole Seitz's sketches of all 67 contributing writers to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy (plus her sketch of the volume's inspiration himself)...

Free

Daufuskie Island Field Trip

Bluffton Oyster Factory Park 63 Wharf Street, Bluffton, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center, in partnership with Haig Point and Tour Daufuskie, presents a day trip to Daufuskie Island—immortalized as Yamacraw in Pat Conroy’s beloved memoir The Water Is Wide.

$189

Workshop: Welcome to Travel Writing

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a globetrotting travel journalist—or what it takes to become one? Travel journalists Lynn and Cele Seldon (www.seldonink.com) have the answers. With more than 45 years of experience between them, the Seldons travel the globe and average more than 100 feature articles annually for a wide variety of publications

$30

Workshop: Write into Your Heart – Look Within and Grow

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

You already have all the answers to the questions that arise on your life’s path. Does hearing this make your eyes roll…especially when you’re trying to answer one of those seemingly unsolvable questions on the road to emotional, mental and spiritual growth?

$30
Event Series Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 1)

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 1)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

$30

Workshop: Creative Organization for Writers

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Finding time for writing is a challenge for many, so let’s learn to make the most of limited time through being better organized for creativity. This class offers productivity advice and tools on how to get started and keep going for maximum creative flow and minimum technical frustration.

$30

Patti Callahan in Conversation with Pastor Jonathan Riddle

Bluffton Rotary Community Center at Oscar Frazier Park 11 Recreation Center, Bluffton, SC, United States

The New York Times best-selling author Patti Callahan will discuss her new historical novel Becoming Mrs. Lewis with Pastor Jonathan Riddle at the Rotary Community Center in Bluffton. A book signing will follow this event.

Free

Workshop: More than One Write Way – Independent Publishing

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Innovative changes in publishing options available to authors and would-be authors make this an exciting time to be a writer and a reader. The self-publishing industry offers independent writers the opportunity to retain creative control and rights to their work.

$30

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House (November 2)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 10:00 am to 4:00 pm during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival.

Free

Exhibit – Pat Conroy Literary Festival 2018: Sketches of contributors to “Our Prince of Scribes” (November 2)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Debuting during our third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival this November 1-4, the Conroy Center will host a special exhibition of author, artist, and editor Nicole Seitz's sketches of all 67 contributing writers to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy (plus her sketch of the volume's inspiration himself)...

Free

Workshop: Celebrating Southern Cooking – Demo and Luncheon – SOLD OUT

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Join caterer and cookbook author Debbi Covington for a gourmet boxed luncheon and cooking demonstration featuring some of her favorite lowcountry recipes. You’ll get to sample some southern oldies-but-goodies with new twists, be privy to easy shortcut secrets...

$50
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Screening of Three Short Films

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Originally screened at the Expecting Goodness film festivals in Spartanburg, South Carolina, these films are each based on short stories written by acclaimed South Carolina authors...

$10

Workshop: Life Stories – Approaches to Memoir Writing, Part 1 -SOLD OUT

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

"The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost," Eudora Welty says, and memoir writing is a great way to discover and explore some of the strands in the rich tapestry of memory we all carry. These two sessions will introduce you to the process of writing memoir by focusing on an important person or moment in your life.

$50
Event Series Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 2)

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 2)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

$30

Workshop: Introduction to Screenwriting

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Chris Offutt has written screenplays for the award-winning cable TV series True Blood, Treme, and Weeds. Offutt’s Screenwriting Basics workshop offers participants an overview of the skills necessary to write a successful screenplay for TV or film. Topics will include (but are not limited to): software and formatting, techniques for using...

$30

Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy

Tabby Place 913 Port Republic, Beaufort, SC, United States

The new anthology Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy shares the heartfelt remembrances of 67 writers inspired and influenced by Conroy over the arc of their own writing lives. This special dinner event invites guests to share a meal and memories with more than 20 of those contributing writers—including Conroy family members and longtime friends.

$75
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In Good Faith: Religion in the Work of Pat Conroy

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

An accomplished group of literary and humanities scholars will trace Pat Conroy's developing and defining interests in issues of faith over decades. Most immediately, panelists will consider Conroy's relationship to specific religions, including Catholicism, the faith he was born into, and Judaism, a faith that fascinated him from boyhood...

Free

Workshop: Tiny Cracks – Writing for Character Development – SOLD OUT

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Here’s the deal: Any one thing contains its opposite. It’s true of characters, too. No one is all good or all bad. All weak or all strong. I got this expression from Pulitzer-Prize winning author Rick Bragg, who used it in an interview about his biography of rock n’ roller...

$30

Pat Conroy Literary Center Open House (November 3)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 10:00 am to 4:00 pm during the Pat Conroy Literary Festival.

Free

Exhibit – Pat Conroy Literary Festival 2018: Sketches of contributors to “Our Prince of Scribes” (November 3)

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen St, Beaufort, SC, United States

Debuting during our third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival this November 1-4, the Conroy Center will host a special exhibition of author, artist, and editor Nicole Seitz's sketches of all 67 contributing writers to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy (plus her sketch of the volume's inspiration himself)...

Free
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Joseph Monte in Conversation with Catherine Seltzer

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

I took one crown jewel from my Jesuit immersion at Gonzaga High School. When the scholarly, charismatic Joseph Monte walked into [our classroom] that first day, he radiated an owl-like authority and a passion for literature I’d never come across…. He brought his love of books and words and fine writing to u...

$10
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Thrilling Fiction of Families and Friendships

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Southern-based novelists F. Rutledge Hammes (author of A Curious Matter of Men with Wings), Melissa Ginsburg (Sunset City), Chris Offutt (Country Dark), Brian Panowich (Bull Mountain), and moderator Ellen Malphrus (Untying the Moon) will discuss the sometimes dark...

$10

Workshop: Pat Conroy – The Book Collector

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Learn how Pat Conroy became a book collector and what you need to know to become one too. Immortalized in Conroy’s My Reading Life, Cliff Graubart of the Old New York Book Shop treats you to the ins and outs of collecting, how to spot a first edition, and the pitfalls to avoid when...

$30
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Poetry Reading

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This year’s annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival poetry reading will feature writers Tim Conroy, Melissa Ginsburg, Anthony Grooms, Ellen Malphrus, Quitman Marshall, and Michael O’Keefe reading pieces inspired by our festival theme of the Foundations of Faith, Family and Friendship...

$10

Workshop: Life Stories – Approaches to Memoir Writing, Part 2 – SOLD OUT

USC Beaufort Center for the Arts 805 Carteret Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

"The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost," Eudora Welty says, and memoir writing is a great way to discover and explore some of the strands in the rich tapestry of memory we all carry. These two sessions will introduce you to the process of writing memoir by focusing on an important person or moment in your life.

$50
Event Series Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 3)

Beaufort Tours Presents: Pat Conroy’s Beaufort ( November 3)

Beaufort Tours 1006 Bay Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round. See Pat Conroy’s Beaufort in this 90-minute tour of sites from Pat’s writing life—including the high school where he was a student during his junior and senior years and where he later taught for two years before going to Daufuskie Island, homes in the historic Point where Pat lived and wrote, sites related to his teachers and friends, his parents’ grave site...

$30

2024 Festival

The ninth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival will be held November 1-2, 2024, in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. Join us as we honor Pat Conroy’s legacy as student, teacher, and mentor through our 2024 festival.

Presented by the Pat Conroy Literary Center the annual festival will be held as a series of author presentations and panel discussions, writing workshops, exhibits, and virtual tours.

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