Week of Events
Pat Conroy Festival: Personal Growth through Journaling
Pat Conroy Festival: Personal Growth through Journaling
What do we invite into our life? Let's frolic in the creation of a fruitful, customized practice to observe and write in ways that welcome and celebrate opportunities for peace, passion and joy!
Pat Conroy Festival: Make a Scene, Why Don’t You!
Pat Conroy Festival: Make a Scene, Why Don’t You!
Scenes are the building blocks of stories and novels. Mastering scene-writing is a powerful way to develop characters and to increase tension and suspense. In this workshop, you will gain a deeper understanding of how you can use scenes, alongside summary, to build stories and novels that have dramatic power and emotional impact.
Pat Conroy Festival: Willie Morris Award Winners Panel
Pat Conroy Festival: Willie Morris Award Winners Panel
Panel discussion with four winners of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction: Nathan Harris (The Sweetness of Water), De’Shawn Charles Winslow (In West Mills), Bren McClain (One Good Mama Bone), and Mindy Friddle (Secret Keepers).
Pat Conroy Festival: The Water Is Wide Panel
Pat Conroy Festival: The Water Is Wide Panel
Honoring the 50th anniversary of Pat Conroy’s 1972 teaching memoir The Water Is Wide, the panel discussion will include Conroy’s Daufuskie Island student turned celebrity chef and cultural historian Sallie Ann Robinson, historian Larry Rowland, and two of Conroy’s teaching colleagues, George Westerfield and Peter Walter, moderated by Ellen Malphrus
Pat Conroy Festival: Conrack Film Screening
Pat Conroy Festival: Conrack Film Screening
FILM SCREENING OF CONRACK, also featuring live vocal performances by Marlena Smalls, teacher recognitions, and a new scholarship announcement, at the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts
Pat Conroy Festival: Fiction Can Fix Things
Pat Conroy Festival: Fiction Can Fix Things
This is a generative workshop, so bring your "what really happened" and let's apply some real pressure. Let's put your characters in the driver's seat and see what they're capable of. I'm telling you -- that's the sweet, sweet glory.
Pat Conroy Festival: Memoirist Judy Goldman
Pat Conroy Festival: Memoirist Judy Goldman
Judy Goldman, author of the memoir Child, live-streamed on the Conroy Center’s Facebook page and also accessible on Zoom with advance registration.
Pat Conroy Festival: Novelist Thrity Umrigar
Pat Conroy Festival: Novelist Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar, author of the novel Honor, in conversation with Margaret Evans. Book signing to follow, at the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts
Pat Conroy Festival: Novelist George Dawes Green
Pat Conroy Festival: Novelist George Dawes Green
George Dawes Green, author of the novel The Kingdoms of Savannah, in conversation with Scott Graber. Book signing to follow, at the USC Beaufort Center for the Arts.
Pat Conroy Festival: Kick-Start Your Manuscript
Pat Conroy Festival: Kick-Start Your Manuscript
Thinking of writing a book? Whether you’re contemplating a novel, a memoir, or a collection of stories, embarking on a book-length manuscript of prose can be daunting.
Pat Conroy Festival: An Evening of Storytelling and Music
Pat Conroy Festival: An Evening of Storytelling and Music
STORYTELLING EVENT: With Moth founder George Dawes Green, featuring MC Jon Goode, Scott Gibbs and the Beaufort Mass Choir, Steve Faulkner of Alibis, Peter Zamuka, and several local storytellers.
Pat Conroy Festival: Hunting Island Trail Walk
Pat Conroy Festival: Hunting Island Trail Walk
Whether it’s your first time in the forest, or you’re an avid nature-lover, learn techniques to deepen your personal ease and heighten your connection with the intuitive guidance within nature.
Pat Conroy Festival: Memories to Memoir
Pat Conroy Festival: Memories to Memoir
Award-winning writer and veteran workshop instructor, Judy Goldman, will tell you everything you need to know to begin writing memoir — or, if you’re already engaged in writing memoir, how to take your work to a deeper level.
Pat Conroy Festival: Children’s Authors Panel
Pat Conroy Festival: Children’s Authors Panel
Children’s Authors Rebecca Dwight Bruff (Stars of Wonder) and Susan Montanari (The Halloween Tree) in conversation with Sally Sue Lavigne of the Storybook Shoppe.