Georgia Writers Museum

Georgia Writers Museum Venue focused on local authors: Joel Chandler Harris, Flannery O'Connor & Alice Walker
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Local businessmen & women formed a board to promote the Arts, Tourism & Heritage of the area, the Eatonton Putnam Tourism Arts Heritage Corp, or EPTAH. this group asked others to form committees to generate ideas to promote the area. out of those committees, the Briar Patch Arts Council was formed, which in turn created the Georgia Writers Museum

Have you heard? We’re going to be open a little bit later Thursday, June 25th for “An Evening in Eatonton!” This will ...
06/24/2026

Have you heard? We’re going to be open a little bit later Thursday, June 25th for “An Evening in Eatonton!” This will be a great opportunity to get together with some friends and do some shopping. For a list of participating businesses, visit www.DowntownEatonton.com/events.

Today's Feature Friday falls on Juneteenth. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is an opportunity ...
06/19/2026

Today's Feature Friday falls on Juneteenth. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is an opportunity to learn from the past and to think about what freedom and democracy mean in the present.

In honor of Juneteenth and in celebration of freedom for all, Feature Friday highlights Georgia-born author Percival Everett and, in particular, his 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James. This brilliant reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is told through the eyes of Jim, an enslaved man and Huck’s companion on the raft down the Mississippi River. If you haven't read James yet, today is the day to pick it up from your local library or bookstore!

To learn more abour Percival Everett, visit: https://georgiawritersmuseum.org/feature-friday-everett/

06/18/2026

We had a blast at the Murder Mystery Stroll in Eatonton on Saturday and we hope you did, too! Congratulations to our raffle winners: Caroline Davis, Bill Frost, and Andrea Bottchen! Come on by the museum during our open hours, Wednesday through Saturday, 10am to 3 pm, to pick up your prize.

And thank you to Sylvia's: A Supernatural Coffee Bar!

Stop by Georgia Writers Museum during “An Evening in Eatonton” on Thursday, June 25th from 5:00pm until 8:00pm! We hope...
06/14/2026

Stop by Georgia Writers Museum during “An Evening in Eatonton” on Thursday, June 25th from 5:00pm until 8:00pm! We hope to see you there!

Today's Feature Friday: Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was a master storyteller, mixing the raw material of his tumultuous famil...
06/12/2026

Today's Feature Friday: Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was a master storyteller, mixing the raw material of his tumultuous family life with the peaceful landscape of coastal South Carolina. He wrote, he would say, to explain his own life to himself. In one interview he commented, “Writing has been not just therapeutic for me, but it has been essential. I have written about my mother, my father, my family...and if I get it on paper, I have named the demon.”

Author of The Water is Wide (1972), The Great Santini (1976), The Prince of Tides (1986), Beach Music (1995), South of Broad (2009), and more, Pat Conroy was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2004.

To learn more about Pat Conroy, the prince of words, visit: https://www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/feature-friday-conroy/

Pat Conroy Literary Center

You are invited to come downtown on Thursday, June 25th for some late shopping and dining from 5:00pm until 8:00pm. Duri...
06/11/2026

You are invited to come downtown on Thursday, June 25th for some late shopping and dining from 5:00pm until 8:00pm. During this event, be sure to pick up a punch card at one of the participating businesses. Five punches get you into a drawing for a GRAND PRIZE! Be sure to tell your friends to meet you in !

Today's Feature Friday is Janisse Ray! Orion magazine called Ray “a writer in love with place and places.” Born in rural...
06/05/2026

Today's Feature Friday is Janisse Ray! Orion magazine called Ray “a writer in love with place and places.” Born in rural Appling County, Georgia, Ray's passionate, spiritual relationship with the wild world serves as a necessary wake-up call for conservation. Her ability to turn a critical yet compassionate eye toward the environment has earned her an extensive list of accolades. In addition to her early honors, Ray's literary awards include the Pushcart Prize, the Nautilus Gold Book Award, the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, the Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Makes a Difference, and the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence. In 2015, Ray was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

To learn more about Janisse Ray, visit: https://www.georgiawritersmuseum.org/ray/

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109 S Jefferson Avenue
Eatonton, GA
31024

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Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm

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