The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center will host the 5th annual Lowcountry Book Club Convention.
A series of live and virtual events will be held from Tuesday, September 21, through Saturday, September 25. This year’s presenting authors include New York Times bestsellers Tamara Winfrey Harris (Dear Black Girl) and Jason Mott (Hell of a Book), award-winning author and editor Lauren Marino (Bookish Broads) and the Between Friends Book Club (Novel Women), in addition to a pantheon of book club and book forum leaders and appearances by the Beaufort chapter of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club and Beaufort High School’s Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization (DAYLO).
Registration for ticketed events will open in August through the Conroy Center’s Eventbrite page: https://patconroyliterarycenter.eventbrite.com.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Tuesday, September 21
7:00 p.m. Write Review Interview with the Conroy Center’s Holland Perryman and Jonathan Haupt, in conversation with Annie McDonnell, founder of the Write Review (Live on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Thewritereview) VIRTUAL. FREE.
Wednesday, September 22
7:00 p.m. Author Interview with Lauren Marino, author of Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History, in conversation with Jonathan Haupt, on the Live from the Pat Conroy Literary Center podcast on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network PODCAST. FREE.
Thursday, September 23
6:00 p.m. Author Visit with Jason Mott, New York Times bestselling author of Hell of a Book, in conversation with booksellers Lorrie and Dave Anderson, at NeverMore Books (910 Port Republic St, Beaufort) IN-PERSON, limited seating. FREE.
Friday, September 24
6:00 p.m. Virtual Happy Hour Panel Discussion with online book club leaders: Susie McMahon (Luxurious Journeys), Susan Peterson (Sue’s Reading Neighborhood), Mandy Haynes (Pulpwood Queens), Annie McDonnell (World of the Write Review), Suzanne W. Leopold (Suzy Approved Book Tours), and Tina Hogan Grant (Read More Books), live on the Pat Conroy Literary Center’s Facebook: www.facebook.com/patconroyliterarycenter. VIRTUAL. FREE.
Saturday, September 25
($12 registration fee for access to all presentations; optional catered lunch price TBD)
10:00-11:00 a.m. Book Club Discussion of Pat Conroy’s A Lowcountry Heart led by the Beaufort Chapter of the Pulpwood Queens Book Club, at the Technical College of the Lowcountry (bldg. 12 auditorium) IN-PERSON. TICKETED.
11:30-12:30 p.m. Author Visit with Tamara Winfrey Harris, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Black Girl, in conversation with Bluffton Book Festival founder Rockelle Henderson—and featuring members of the Beaufort High School Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization (DAYLO). (Author Tamara Winfrey Harris will be presenting remotely, live-streamed at the Technical College of the Lowcountry; interviewer Rockelle Henderson will be in person at TCL.) HYBRID. TICKETED.
2:00-3:00 p.m. Author Visit with Lauren Marino, award-winning author of Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History, in conversation with the Conroy Center’s Holland Perryman and Jonathan Haupt, at the Technical College of the Lowcountry (bldg. 12 auditorium) IN-PERSON. TICKETED.
3:30-4:30 p.m. Author Visit with the Between Friends Book Club, authors of the book club-inspired novel Novel Women (Authors will present remotely, live-streamed at the Technical College of the Lowcountry.) HYBRID. TICKETED.
Books by presenting authors will be available for sale through NeverMore Books.
