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In honor of the 76th birthday of Pat Conroy (October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016), we are sharing again this heartfelt and often hilarious conversation between Pat and USC Beaufort writer in residence Ellen Malphrus, originally recorded as part of the Pat Conroy at 70 festival in October 2015. Enjoy with Great Love!
The 6th annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival will be held this November 4-7, with in-person events across Beaufort County and online. See the full schedule of author events and writers workshops below.
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6th Annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, Nov 4-7 |
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler (Late City); Alabama’s youngest and first African American Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones (Reparations, Now); literary activist and morning show host E. Ethelbert Miller (When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery); best-selling writers Patti Callahan (Once Upon a Wardrobe), Wiley Cash (When Ghosts Come Home), and Brian Panowich (Hard Cash Valley); award-winning photographer Andrew Feiler (A Better Life for Their Children); and Carrie McCray Nickens Poetry Fellowship winner Elizabeth Robin (Where Green Meets Blue) and all five fellowship finalists are scheduled to headline this year’s sixth annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival, November 4-7. The event includes free author events held in locations across Beaufort County and online, as well as writers workshops. See the full schedule below.
The annual Conroy Festival began as Pat Conroy’s 70th birthday celebration in October 2015 and now continues as an annual signature event of the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center. The festival is made possible each year by a generous gift from the Robert S. Handler Trust and through collaborations with a pantheon of community partners, this year including the Crescendo festival of Hilton Head Island, the Coastal Discovery Museum, Island Writers Network, Technical College of the Lowcountry, Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce, Beaufort Bookstore, NeverMore Books, Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, the University of South Carolina Beaufort, Beaufort High School’s DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization), and the Friends of the Beaufort Library. Grant support is provided by South Carolina Humanities, a nonprofit organization inspiring, engaging and enriching South Carolinians with programs on literature, history, culture and heritage.
The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m. (with extended hours during the festival weekend) at 601 Bladen Street in historic downtown Beaufort.
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Masks are required at all festival in-person indoor author events and workshops, and when visiting the Pat Conroy Literary Center.
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SCHEDULE OF AUTHOR EVENTS
& WRITERS WORKSHOPS
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Thursday, November 4, 10:00 a.m.-Noon, Workshop: Characters Who Grow from Where They’re Planted, led by novelist and former journalist Estelle Ford-Williamson ($45, virtual or in person at the Pat Conroy Literary Center, 601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Advance registration required.
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Thursday, November 4, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Workshop: Memoir as Vaccine, led by literary activist, radio host, poet, and memoirist E. Ethelbert Miller (free, in-person at the Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Dr., Hilton Head Island). Advance registration required. Sponsored in part by South Carolina Humanities and presented in collaboration with the Crescendo arts festival.
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Thursday, November 4, 5:00-7:00 p.m., Author Event: Literary activist, radio host, poet, and memoirist E. Ethelbert Miller, author of When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery, in conversation with poet and memoirist Elizabeth Robin (free, in-person at the Coastal Discovery Museum, 70 Honey Horn Dr., Hilton Head Island). Sponsored in part by South Carolina Humanities and presented in collaboration with the Crescendo arts festival. Books available for sale and signing. Limited seating; reserve in advance for this event only by emailing host Miho Kinnas.
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Friday, November 5, 10:00 a.m.-Noon, Workshop: The Healing Art: Putting Trauma Outside of Ourselves and onto the Page, led by award-winning poet and memoirist Rosemary Daniell, founder of Zona Rosa ($45, virtual only). Advance registration required.
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Friday, November 5, 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.: Friends of the Beaufort Library Book Sale at Waterfront Park, Beaufort. Learn More.
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Friday, November 5, 1:00-3:00 p.m., Workshop: The Lowdown on Evaluating Your Memoir, led by award-winning memoirist Judy Goldman ($45, virtual only). Advance registration required.
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Friday, November 5, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Author Event: Bestselling novelists Wiley Cash, author of When Ghosts Come Home, and Brian Panowich, author of Hard Cash Valley, in conversation with USCB writer in residence Ellen Malphrus (free, in-person at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce, 711 Bladen St., Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through Beaufort Bookstore.
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Friday, November 5, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Author Event: Remembering bestselling and beloved novelist Dorothea Benton Frank and her special friendship with Pat Conroy, featuring contributing writers to Reunion Beach: Cassandra King, Patti Callahan, Marjory Wentworth, and Gervais Hagerty--plus other special guests to be announced (free, in-person at the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce, 711 Bladen St., Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through Beaufort Bookstore.
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Friday, November 5, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Workshop: Songwriting with singer/songwriter/novelist Jennifer Daniels (Neal) and musician Jeff Neal ($45, virtual or in-person at the Pat Conroy Literary Center, 601 Bladen St., Beaufort). Advance registration required.
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Friday, November 5, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Author Event: Novelists Jennifer Daniels Neal (The Locke Box) and Estelle Ford-Williamson (Rising Fawn) First Friday signing at NeverMore Books (free, in person only at 910 Port Republic St., Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing.
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Saturday, November 6, 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.: Friends of the Beaufort Library Book Sale at Waterfront Park, Beaufort. Learn More.
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Saturday, November 6, 9:00-10:00 a.m., Author Event: Readings by our Camp Conroy students and the winner of Beaufort High School’s Ann Head Literary Prize for Short Story, Holland Perryman, hosted by Camp Conroy instructors Lisa Anne Cullen, Miho Kinnas, and Robin Prince Monroe (free, virtual only, in-person attendance is limited to the students and their families).
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Saturday, November 6, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Author Event: Novelists Jennifer Daniels Neal, author of The Locke Box, and Estelle Ford-Williamson, author of Rising Fawn, in conversation (free, in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry auditorium, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books.
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Saturday, November 6, 10:30 a.m.-Noon, Workshop: Poetry as Superpower, led by poets Derek Berry and Ann-Chadwell Humphries ($45, virtual or in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Advance registration required.
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Saturday, November 6, Noon-1:00 p.m., Author Event: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler, author of Late City, in conversation with Bren McClain, author of One Good Mama Bone, winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (free, in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry auditorium, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books.
Author Robert Olen Butler will be appearing virtually. Interviewer Bren McClain will be in-person at TCL.
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Saturday, November 6, 12:30-2:00 p.m., Workshop: Sense of Place, led by poets Danielle Verwers and Miho Kinnas ($45, virtual or in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Advance registration required.
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Saturday, November 6, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Author Event: Andrew Feiler, author and photographer of A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools That Changed America (free, in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry auditorium, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books.
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Saturday, November 6, 2:30-4:00 p.m., Workshop: Create the Discipline, led by poets Yvette R. Murray and Elizabeth Robin ($45, in person only at the Technical College of the Lowcountry, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Advance registration required.
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Saturday, November 6, 3:00-4:00 p.m., Author Event: A Conversation with Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones (Reparations, Now!), novelist and essayist Anjali Enjeti (The Parted Earth), and memoirist, essayist and editor Cinelle Barnes (A Measure of Belonging), presented in partnership with Beaufort High School's DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization (free, in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry auditorium, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books.
Ashley M. Jones and Cinelle Barnes will be appearing virtually. Anjali Enjeti and the DAYLO student moderators will be in-person at TCL.
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Saturday, November 6, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Author Event: Carrie McCray Nickens Poetry Fellowship Reading with fellowship winner Elizabeth Robin and finalists Miho Kinnas, Derek Berry, Danielle Verwers, Ann-Chadwell Humphries, and Yvette R. Murray, moderated by Ellen Malphrus (free, in person at the Technical College of the Lowcountry auditorium, 104 Reynolds St., bldg 12, Beaufort). Books available for sale and signing through NeverMore Books.
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Saturday, November 6, 6:30-8:00 p.m., Author Event: Festival Open Mic Night, featuring headliner Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones, author of Reparations, Now!, and fellow festival presenters--both in person and virtual (free, with cash bar, in person at Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce, 711 Bladen St., Beaufort).
Headliner Ashley M. Jones will be appearing virtually.
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Sunday, November 7, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.: Friends of the Beaufort Library Book Sale at Waterfront Park, Beaufort. Learn More.
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Sunday, November 7, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Author Event: Award-winning poets and memoirists Rosemary Daniell and Judy Goldman in conversation with Ellen Malphrus (free, virtual only)
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Sunday, November 7, 4:00-5:00 p.m., Author Event: Bestselling novelist Patti Callahan, author of Once Upon Wardrobe, in conversation with Lowcountry Weekly publisher Margaret Evans (free, in person at Lowcountry Presbyterian Church, 10 Simmonsville Rd., Bluffton). Books available for sale and signing through Beaufort Bookstore.
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Pat Conroy Literary Center | 601 Bladen St., Beaufort, SC 29902
843-379-7025 | contact@patconroyliterarycenter.org
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