Moderator: Lowcountry Weekly publisher and columnist Margaret Evans Panel Members: Lynn Bryant, Stephanie Austin Edwards, Elijah Heyward Jr., and L.K. McCall Discussion Topic: This panel features teachers who write Book signing follows. This is a ticketed event - Buy tickets here
“Well, if I’m Athena, you’re my Apollo—the god of poetry, truth, and music. Your natural language is poetry. You write sentences that are like an incantation. You observe every nuance of human behavior and dig deep down to the truth, presenting it in all its glorious and stubborn complexity.”—Barbra Streisand, letter to Pat Conroy (2015) According to Pat Conroy, “the most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story.’” But to tell a story most powerfully, most memorably, he well understood that we need [...]
This panel features books with themes of education and learning. Panel Members: Bren McClain, Nicole Seitz, and Deno Trakas Moderator: Novelist Ellen Malphrus Advance registration required, this is a ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here
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.
Reading featuring Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry editor Daniel Cross Turner and teaching poets Kate Daniels, Ray McManus, and Adam Vines introduced by poet Tim Conroy. Ticket information: This is a ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here
Have you ever thought about writing a children’s book? Or illustrating one? How hard can it be to create a successful 32-page picture book? Let’s find out. Join children’s book author and artist (and Pat Conroy’s daughter) Melissa Conroy as she shares instructive stories from her own paths to publication and discusses the children’s book market as she was experienced as both the author and artist of Poppy’s Pants and also the author of Grandma Is an Author. Open to interested creators at any level [...]
This panel features Teaching Pat Conroy’s Writing at the Citadel . Panel Members: Citadel English professors Sean Heuston, Michael Livingston, and Lauren Rule Maxwell Moderator: Pat Conroy biographer Catherine Seltzer Advance registration required, this is a ticketed event - Buy Tickets Here
Screening of The Lords of Discipline, adapted from Pat Conroy’s novel—featuring the public premier of the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s new short video created by filmmakers Daniel Monico and Luke Parker Bowls, as introduced by Luke Parker Bowles. 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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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
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.
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
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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
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
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, 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 [...]
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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)...
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.
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
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?
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...
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.
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.
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.
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)...
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.
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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