From staff reports
The Zonta Club of Beaufort presented Margaret Evans with its Leadership Award on Friday, January 5th, 2024.
The longtime co-publisher and editor of Lowcountry Weekly and co-publisher of The Island News started her career in local journalism in the mid-90’s as the editor of Beaufort Magazine.
Her articles and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies throughout the South, including State of the Heart: South Carolina Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, and ‘Southbound’ magazine.
The South Carolina Press Association named her the state’s top newsweekly columnist of 2021 and its top humor columnist of 2022.
Evans believes she owes much of her career to the unwavering encouragement of her longtime friend and mentor, Pat Conroy, for whom she worked as a researcher in her late 20’s, then, much later, as an editorial assistant. Working with Conroy on his literary imprint, Story River Books, remains one of the greatest honors of her life.
Evans has served on the boards of the Arts Council of Beaufort County, the Beaufort Orchestra, the S.C. Playwright’s Center, and Lowcountry Shakespeare. She has worked on behalf of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern Beaufort County, partners each year with the Beaufort International Film Festival, and has sung second soprano in the Chancel Choir at First Presbyterian church for 17 years.
