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Brendan McKennedy


Location North Carolina
Occupation Fiction Editor
Website http://greensbororeview.org

Books by Brendan McKennedy
  • by Ann Wicker
    Novello Festival Press, 2008.
  • About Me

    Banjos, and internal conflict. Fiction editor at The Greensboro Review (Spring & Fall 2013 issues). MFA candidate at UNC Greensboro, 2011-2013. INFJ.

    Writings have appeared in PANK, Night Train Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Staccato Fiction, Cafe Irreal, and the anthology, Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas (Novello Festival Press, 2008).

    Why do you write?

    "To catch the heart off guard and blow it open."

    Any favorite authors? Books?

    Tom Drury, Ian Frazier, Jennifer Egan, Edward P. Jones, Ann Beattie, Raymond Carver, Wm Faulkner, Jane Hirshfield, Richard Brautigan, J.D. Salinger, Basho, Alec Wilkinson, Sarah Vowell, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Yuan Zhen, Sylvia Plath, Li Bai, Buson, Herman Melville, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers blah blah blah

    Brendan McKennedy's Wall

    Susan Tepper – Apr 05, 2011

    Sterling thanks so much for reading my piece "gum" and your nice comments

    Marcelle Heath – Apr 04, 2011

    Hi Sterling,
    Thanks so much for your nice comments on "Christina Heppel" :)

    Meg Pokrass – Apr 04, 2011

    you made my day with your comment on my story "Flake". Thank you so much. Telling me which lines really work for you is enormously helpful to me, and for that too:)

    Meg Pokrass – Aug 24, 2010

    thank you for reading "Her Own Music" and for your comments. Very nice to meet you here.

    Meg Pokrass – Aug 24, 2010

    thank you for reading "Her Own Music" and for your comments. Very nice to meet you here.

    Sara – Jul 13, 2010

    Sterling, Thanks so much for your kind note. I look forward to reading your work.

    Matthew A. Hamilton – May 12, 2010

    Thank you for joining NC Writers. Look forward to reading your work.

    Jane Hammons – Apr 24, 2010

    Welcome--and thanks for the fave on Pleiku Jacket.

    Darryl Price – Apr 23, 2010

    One of these days Richard Brautigan will get his due. Until then there are still a few of us celebrating his writings.Welcome.

    Cami Park – Apr 23, 2010

    Hey, hey, hey!

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