The Pat Conroy Literary Center will present their “2018 Visiting Writers Series” from August – December 2018 featuring seven programs and thirteen writers from a variety of genres. These dialogue-driven events are formatted to educate and inspire readers and writers alike. SC Humanities supported this programming series with a Fast Track Literary Grant.
The series will kick-off with “An Evening With Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi and Author of Heating and Cooling: 25 Micro Memoirs” on Thursday, August 9 at 6:00 p.m. at the Hilton Head Island Branch Library. The event is free and open to the public. The 52 micro-memoirs in the genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-memoirs build on one another to arrive at a portrait of Beth Ann Fennelly as a wife, mother, writer, and deeply original observer of life’s challenges and joys.
Additional programs in the series include:
Sunday, September 9 | 3:00 p.m.
Southern Writers on Writing
Featuring editor Susan Cushman and contributors Cassandra King Conroy, Patti Callahan Henry, Harrison Scott Key, and Nicole Seitz
Location: Rotary Community Center, 11 Recreation Court, Bluffton
Free and open to the public
Thursday, September 27 | 4:00 p.m.
A Reading with Thomas McConnell
Author of The Wooden King
Location: NeverMore Books, 702 Craven Street, Beaufort
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, October 2 | 2:00 p.m.
A Poetry Reading with Clifford Brooks
Author of Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart and The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics
Location: Hilton Head Branch Library, 11 Beach City Road, Hilton Head Island
Free and open to the public
Saturday, October 6 | 10:00 a.m.
Second Annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention
Featuring Annie Spence in conversation with James E. McTeer II
Location: Technical College of the Lowcountry, MacLean Hall, Building 12, Beaufort
Free and open to the public; registration required
Wednesday, October 10 | 6:30 p.m.
An Evening with Natasha Boyd
Author of The Indigo Girl
Location: First Presbyterian Church, 540 William Hilton Parkway, Hilton Head Island
Free and open to the public
Saturday, December 8 | 3:00 p.m.
A Conversation with Bestselling Novelists Wiley Cash & Jason Mott
Location: Technical College of the Lowcountry, MacLean Hall, Building 12, Beaufort
Free and open to the public
More information about these evens and about the Pat Conroy Literary Center can be found at http://patconroyliterarycenter.org/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c) 3 organization is governed by a volunteer 20-member Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and/or supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually.
