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Third Annual March Forth

PRE-REGISTRATION HAS ENDED. LIMITED SEATING STILL AVAILABLE WITH ON-SITE REGISTRATION (with no lunch, chicken salad sandwich, or BLT options)

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The Pat Conroy Literary Center will hold its third annual March Forth day of learning on Sunday, March 3rd, at the Frissell Community House at Penn Center on St. Helena Island. Commemorating the anniversary of Pat Conroy's death, March Forth will be a day-long embrace of nature, writing, social justice, and fellowship among writers and readers in the heart of Conroy's beloved lowcountry.

March Forth's lineup will include: New York Times best-selling young adult novelist Nic Stone (author of Dear Martin); civil rights leader Cleveland Sellers and his biographer Adam Parker (author of Outside Agitator); Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy contributing writers Cassandra King Conroy, Tim Conroy, Jonathan Haupt, Ellen Malphrus, Sallie Ann Robinson, and Valerie Sayers; and a birding walk led by master naturalists Chris Marsh and Bob Speare.

This event is sponsored by a generous gift from Erin and Matt Devlin and presented in partnership with Penn Center.

REGISTRATION: $22 for all-day admission (10:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.) with an optional $18 for a box lunch catered by Debbi Covington.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10:0011:30 a.m.: Nature walk led by Chris Marsh and Bob Speare

Noon1:30 p.m. LUNCH catered by Debbi Covington + Welcome + Our Prince of Scribes panel with Cassandra King Conroy, Tim Conroy, Jonathan Haupt, Ellen Malphrus, Sallie Ann Robinson, and Valerie Sayers

1:302:00 p.m. book signing

2:003:00 p.m. Adam Parker in conversation with Cleveland Sellers Jr., Outside Agitator: The Civil Rights Struggle of Cleveland Sellers Jr.

3:003:30 p.m. book signing

3:304:30 p.m. Nic Stone keynote, Dear Martin: A Novel

4:305:00 p.m. book signing