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Reception and Book Signing: at Pat Conroy Literary Center

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 […]

Screening: The Lords of Discipline and more…

By Michael Radulescu|

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 the Pat […]

Panel discussion: Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Discussion

By Michael Radulescu|

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

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Panel discussion: Teaching Pat Conroy’s Writing at the Citadel

By Michael Radulescu|

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

Workshop: Writing and Illustrating for the Children’s Book Market

By Michael Radulescu|

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 […]

Reading: Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry

By Michael Radulescu|

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

Panel discussion: Lowcountry Local Favorites

By Michael Radulescu|

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

Panel discussion: Pat Conroy’s Story River Books Novelists

By Michael Radulescu|

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

Workshop: Tell Me a Story… in Verse: The Continuing Appeal of Narrative Poetry

By Michael Radulescu|

“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 poetry, […]

Book Signing

By Chris|

Book signing following the Porch Talk Live Panel

Authors: William E. Dufford, Stephanie Austin Edwards, Alexia Helsley, Janis Owens, Valerie Sayers, Catherine Seltzer, and Bernie Schein

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