From staff reports
On Let Freedom Read Day, Saturday, Oct. 11, the nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center, the South Carolina chapter of Authors Against Book Bans, and the student book club DAYLO (Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization) will host a reading at Witness Tree Park from 2 to 4 p.m. Honoring the final day of Banned Books Week, this event will feature brief readings by local writers and students from frequently challenged and banned books as well as empowering works about pro-literacy advocacy, and original poetry and prose responding to censorship and erasures. Scheduled to appear are 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 students.
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, afterward from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Learn more about the Conroy Center at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org.
