Let Freedom Read Day at Witness Tree Park

“Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.”—Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

On Let Freedom Read Day, Saturday, October 11, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the South Carolina chapter of Authors Against Book Bans, and the DAYLO student book club will host a reading at Witness Tree Park from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Honoring the final day of Banned Books Week, this special event will feature brief readings by local writers and students from frequently challenged and banned books as well as works about pro-literacy advocacy, and original works responding to censorship and erasures. Scheduled to appear: novelist Rebecca Dwight Bruff, poet Tim Conroy, essayist Jonathan Haupt, poet Miho Kinnas, memoirist Carol Lucas, poet Susan Madison, poet Jacquelyn Markham, novelist Valerie Sayers, and DAYLO.

Witness Tree Park is located across King Street from the Conroy Center’s location at 601 Bladen Street in Beaufort. The Center and DAYLO will also host the monthly Silent Book Club Beaufort meet-up that same afternoon, afterwards from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

You may also like the following events from Pat Conroy Literary Center:

• Next Tuesday, 7th October, 05:00 pm, An Evening with Elaine Neil Orr, Author of Dancing Woman, in Conversation with Bren McClain in Beaufort
• Next Thursday, 9th October, 06:00 pm, Open Mic Night--Featuring Debut Novelist Mary J. Nestor, Author of Bus No. 7 in Beaufort
• Next Saturday, 11th October, 04:30 pm, Silent Book Club Beaufort in Beaufort

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