About Brandon Sneed

I'm Brandon Sneed. I do lots of stuff with words and stories. Hi. 

Working Man

I work as a journalist for magazines, websites, and newspapers such as: ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, The Red Bulletin, Coastal Living, Atlanta magazine, SLAM, Our State (NC) magazine, The Good Men Project, the Charlotte Observer, the Raleigh News & Observer, and The Kenly News. 

I wrote the book The Edge of Legend: An Incredible Story of Faith and Basketball. It tells the remarkable, exhilarating story of Barton College's 2007 run to the Division II national championship, which featured the most gooseflesh-inducing ending you'll ever see. You can buy it here. 

On top of writing, I also speak, teach, and lead workshops. More details on all that further down this page. 

Blog

I blog here at brandonsneed.com about journalism and writing in general. I'm all about great stories—finding them, telling them, living them myself, and learning how to tell and experience them better. To that end, I (sort of obsessively) read, research, watch, and otherwise consume as many great stories as I can. Really, I just became a journalist so I could do whatever I want and talk to whoever I want and write it all off as work. 

Seriously though, that's life in a nutshell: A collection of stories you like to tell. 

Sometimes, I even talk to other writers to see how they go about telling their stories, and pretty often I share what they tell me here. Below is a list of great storytellers who've been kind enough to visit the blog: 

Michael Weinreb (Grantland) | Chris Jones (Esquire/ESPN The Magazine) | Thomas Lake (Sports Illustrated) | Chris Ballard (Sports Illustrated) | Patrick Hruby (The Atlantic/ESPN.com) 

HeyGoodCall.com

I also founded, edit and write for the sports philanthropy news site HeyGoodCall.com, which is awesome and which you should totally go check out RIGHT NOW. And you should follow the site on Twitter and Facebook because I like to give away free stuff sometimes. 

Speaking

Drawing from my personal experiece and, better yet, what I've learned from some of the extraordinarily compelling people I've written about, I've spoken to people of all ages, in all types of settings, about writing, journalism, Christianity, faith, dreams and passions and goals, and more. 

Workshops

I lead workshops for the following things: journalism, longform narrative writing, writing for magazines, writing books, and how to accomplish your goals as a writer. Really, I do them because as passionate as I am about writing and stories, I'm also that passionate about teaching. I just love helping people go after the things they want in life. 

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