Pat Conroy Literary Festival

Reception and Book Signing: at Pat Conroy Literary Center

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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 […]

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Screening: The Lords of Discipline and more…

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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 […]

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Panel discussion: Citadel Class of 1967 Reunion Discussion

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

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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 […]

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

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“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, […]

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2023 Festival

The eighth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival will be held October 26-29, 2023, in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. Join us as we honor Pat Conroy’s legacy as student, teacher, and mentor through our 2023 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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Pat Conroy Literary Center
601 Bladen Street
Beaufort, SC 29902 (Map & Directions)

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