Speaker @ the Center to feature panel of SC authors - June 16

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Writers Sammy Fretwell, Emily Cooper, and Ron Aiken join editor Aïda Rogers for a chat about their favorite places in South Carolina - and what's become of them. Join us on Thursday June 16, 2016 at noon for Speaker @ the Center for State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love, Volume 2 published by the University of South Carolina Press. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Location: South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate St., Columbia. Speaker @ the Center is FREE and open to the public. Feel free to bring your lunch. No registration required. For more information, please visit our events calendar.

Upcoming Event

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Jennifer Bartell Boykin, Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC

April 25, 2024, 6:00 PM
Join the South Carolina State Library's Center for the Book for our next Speaker at the Center Author Talk, featuring Poet Laureate of Columbia, SC, Jennifer Bartell Boykin. She will discuss her debut book of poetry, Traveling Mercy, and her upcoming release, Only Believe (The Word Works), a winner of the 2023 Hilary Tham Capital Collection.