We're pleased to announce that the Southern Icons A-Z Photography exhibit curated by Meryl Truett, Donna Rosser, and Rob McDonald will be on display at the USCB Center for the Arts during this year's third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival...
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)...
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...
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...
"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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
We're pleased to announce that the Southern Icons A-Z Photography exhibit curated by Meryl Truett, Donna Rosser, and Rob McDonald will be on display at the USCB Center for the Arts during this year's third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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.
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...
Acclaimed southern writer Rick Bragg will discuss his new book The Best Cook in the World and his longtime friendship with Pat Conroy in conversation with his interviewer Walter Edgar, South Carolina’s preeminent historian...
Join us for a BBQ reception and cash bar, followed by a musical performance by the Tony Award-winning North Carolina string band The Red Clay Ramblers who appears prominently in Pat Conroy’s novel Beach Music...
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.
We're pleased to announce that the Southern Icons A-Z Photography exhibit curated by Meryl Truett, Donna Rosser, and Rob McDonald will be on display at the USCB Center for the Arts during this year's third annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival...
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)...
Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times best-selling novels, most recently Seeing Red and Tailspin. Her novels French Silk, Smoke Screen, and Ricochet have been adapted for feature films, and she has appeared on...
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...
Cultural preservationist and educator Victoria Smalls will share an enlightening presentation on the distinctive heritage of the Gullah Geechee culture of the lowcountry with an emphasis on spirituals and spiritual lives...
Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round...
The Pat Conroy Literary Festival and the USCB Center for Arts present the publication day book launch for Cassandra King Conroy's highly anticipated new memoir, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy. At 7:00 p.m., Cassandra King Conroy will be interviewed by award-winning journalist David Lauderdale on stage at the USCB Center...
Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round...
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his 50-year...
Thursday, 10/31, to Sunday, 11/3, Old Bay Marketplace (917 Bay St., Beaufort). Workshops led by Amber Wheeler Bacon, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Stephanie Austin Edwards, Jon Pineda, Dana Ridenour, Jason Ryan, and Cassie Primo Steele. Pre-registration required...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm - other days other hours - please check the schedule...
Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round...
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)...
This special event has two parts on November 1, 2019 - There are two more similar events on November 2nd and 3rd - see schedule...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm - other days other hours - please check the schedule...
Have you ever found yourself stuck, not knowing how to move forward in your writing? Ever wished your writing had more finesse? Or wondered what goes into the making of a fine poem? This class that explores “poetic ingredients” in the areas of content, sound, and form...
Presented in partnership with the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort Tours will offer van tours of Pat Conroy's Beaufort during the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival--and year-round...
Have you ever found yourself stuck, not knowing how to move forward in your writing? Ever wished your writing had more finesse? Or wondered what goes into the making of a fine poem? This class that explores “poetic ingredients” in the areas of content, sound, and form...
Join us as the Pat Conroy Literary Festival welcomes back Bernie Schein, author of Pat Conroy: Our Lifelong Friendship. A love letter and homage, and a way to share the Pat he knew, this book collects Schein’s cherished...
As part of the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival and South Carolina Writers Association Beaufort Retreat, participating festival authors, retreat faculty members, and local writers will be discussing and signing their books across downtown Beaufort on First Friday, November 1, beginning at...
As part of the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival and South Carolina Writers Association Beaufort Retreat, participating festival authors, retreat faculty members, and local writers will be discussing and signing their books across downtown Beaufort on First Friday, November 1, beginning at...
As part of the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival and South Carolina Writers Association Beaufort Retreat, participating festival authors, retreat faculty members, and local writers will be discussing and signing their books across downtown Beaufort on First Friday, November 1, beginning at...
As part of the fourth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival and South Carolina Writers Association Beaufort Retreat, participating festival authors, retreat faculty members, and local writers will be discussing and signing their books across downtown Beaufort on First Friday, November 1, beginning at...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center, South Carolina Writers Association, and Common Ground coffeehouse will present an open mic reading on First Friday, 11/1, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public...
This special event is a full day event. Please visit and support our library. 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m: Friends of the Beaufort Library Annual Book Sale, Henry C. Chambers Waterfront Park (Open to the public)...
Join us as the Pat Conroy Literary Festival welcomes back some of our young poets and writers from this summer's second annual Camp Conroy. Our campers will be reading selections from Re-World, the nearly 80-page...
Clay Rice is a third-generation multi-award winning silhouette artist and children's author. This rare art form is a Rice family tradition spanning three generations and two artists...
The Pat Conroy Literary Center (905 Port Republic Street) will be open to the public 10:00 pm to 4:00 pm - other days other hours - please check the schedule...
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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