2021 Festival History

2021 Schedule (November 4 – November 7)

November 4, 2021

10:00 am Pat Conroy Festival: Characters Who Grow from Where They’re Planted
1:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival: Memoir As Vaccine: Saving Your Life and Memories
5:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: E. Ethelbert Miller in Conversation with Elizabeth Robin

November 5, 2021

10:00 am Pat Conroy Festival: The Healing Art
1:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival: The Lowdown on Elevating Your Memoir
1:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Wiley Cash & Brian Panowich in Conversation with Ellen Malphrus
3:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Remembering Dorothea Benton Frank
4:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival: Songwriting with Jennifer Daniels & Jeff Neal
6:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival Book Signing: Jennifer Daniels Neal & Estelle Ford-Williamson

November 6, 2021

9:00 am Pat Conroy Festival: Young Writers Reading with Holland Perryman
10:30 am Pat Conroy Festival: Poetry as Superpower
10:30 am Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Jennifer Daniels Neal & Estelle Ford-Williamson
12:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Robert Olen Butler in Conversation with Bren McClain
12:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival: Sense of Place
1:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Author & Photographer Andrew Feiler
2:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival: Creating the Discipline
3:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Conversation with Ashley M. Jones, Anjali Enjeti, and Cinelle Barnes, in partnership with DAYLO
4:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Carrie McCray Nickens Poetry Fellowship Reading
6:30 pm Pat Conroy Festival Open Mic Night with Ashley M. Jones

November 7, 2021

2:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Rosemary Daniell and Judy Goldman in Conversation with Ellen Malphrus
4:00 pm Pat Conroy Festival Author Event: Patti Callahan in Conversation with Margaret Evans

Partners & Sponsors

  • The Estate of Robert Handler

2021 Presenters

SCHEDULED PRESENTERS

Cinelle Barnes, Derek Berry, Robert Olen Butler, Patti Callahan (Henry), Wiley Cash, Rosemary Daniell, Anjali Enjeti, Margaret Evans, Andrew Feiler, Judy Goldman, Gervais Hagerty, Jonathan Haupt, Ann-Chadwell Humphries, Ashley M. Jones, Miho Kinnas, Cassandra King Conroy, Ellen Malphrus, Bren McClain, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yvette Murray, Jennifer Daniels Neal, Brian Panowich, Elizabeth Robin, Danielle Verwers, Marjory Wentworth, Estelle Ford-Williamson