Contact Me! Invite Me to Speak!

I welcome questions, comments, and invitations to speak!

I’d love to meet with your students or your organization and talk about Creative Writing, especially Creative Nonfiction Essays and Memoir Writing, or about any of my books:

More Wit and Wisdom: Another Year of Foolin’ Around in Bed (2024)

In Bed: My Year of Foolin’ Around (2023)

My edition of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Green Mountain Stories (2023)

My The Infant Sphinx: Collected Letters of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1985)

My work-in-progress, Dolly: Life and Letters of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Volume I: The New England Years (1852-1901). Volume II: The New Jersey Years (1902-1930).

I look forward to hearing from you. Here’s my email:

brentlkendrick@gmail.com

9 thoughts on “Contact Me! Invite Me to Speak!”

  1. Brent,
    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

    Just searched for A-B’s Alma Mater for Saturday the 28th, and there you are–#2 on the list…right below Wikipedia. You’re in excellent company.

    You also have another follower (You are the first, and only, blogger I consider worthy of my attention and intellect. Seriously & LOL) and another digital book sale.

    Assuming you’ll attend Saturday’s Verbal, Spiritual Memorial and Burial. I want to at least shake your hand and see your smile. Or if time permits, we could do lunch and then break into Benedum library. (I’m hoping they’ll have a liquidation book sale.)

    FYI: Moved onto Faculty Row in August ’64. Dad was director of development. Mom worked in admissions before becoming President Shearer’s secretary.

    Phillip Barbour ’68; A-B ’72.

    Blessings,
    Boyd

    PS. Your mom was your pastor and you listen to gospel while driving? Well we share something in common. For 48+ years I’ve been having a torrid affair with my pastor ( the “always…Right Rev. Debra”), but I listen to Bach, Beatles, Buck Owens, Basie, etc. (Either my taste is eclectic, or I can’t make up my mind.)

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    • Good morning, Boyd!

      Thank you so much for your enthusiastic comments. Right below Wikipedia! At last, I have arrived! Even at my age, validation matters.

      Unfortunately, previous commitments prevent me from attending the A-B event on October 28. Know, however, that I will be there in spirit. I don’t know about you, but the spirit of A-B and all that I enjoyed on that mountaintop is always with me.

      I am delighted to know that you are now following my blog. I hope that my posts continue to meet your expectations.

      Blessing and all best wishes returned–

      Brent

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      • Thanks for shoutout, Brent.
        I, too, must attend spiritually.

        Two of Deb’s closest church buddies visiting on Saturday. She was very excited yesterday evening.

        Began my following with 2012. Working my way up.

        Thanks for everything.

        Blessings,
        🤠

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      • My goodness! Started with the beginning! Good for you. You will have some heavy–but hopefully entertaining–reading for the first two years as I work my way through identifying the author of the Humourist essays! What a thrill it was for me when I solved that literary puzzled. The volume of essays will be published in 2024, hopefully in the early part of the year!

        Thanks so much for following me and my work!

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  2. Hi Brent,

    I’m a PhD student at Rutgers University, currently working on a project about Freeman, and would love to get in touch with you.

    Best,
    Isabel Jaramillo

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  3. Professor Kendrick,

    I am a student at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT and I am doing research on untraditional and eccentric essay forms. I had discovered the Humorist during some preliminary research but quickly hit a wall due to a lack of records. Weeks later, I stumbled across your wonderful blog about the Humorist and was filled with joy at your extensive research on the topic! I noticed on your August 8th, 2013 blog that you mentioned potentially formally publishing some of the Humorist’s essays from the South Carolina Gazette; I would love to find/access these essays if you have them!

    Thank you for your time,

    Kayley Smoot

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    • Greetings, Kayley, from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia!

      I am delighted to know about your interest in The Humourist. It won’t be soon enough to help you with your project, but my book will be coming out in May/June 2024.

      I’m more than willing, though, to help you now, if I can. Can you tell me a little more about your angle? Perhaps, then, I could provide you with an appropriate essay or two. Or, perhaps, you have questions that you want to ask me about The Humourist, and you could incorporate your questions and my responses into your project as an interview, with appropriate documentation, of course. I am assuming that The Humourist is only one part of your project.

      At any rate, I will help you if I can.

      I look forward to hearing from you!

      Professor Kendrick
      brentlkendrick@gmail.com

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