The Brickyard: A Petitioner's Guide to Becoming a Freemason

by Matt Gallagher

Some people hear about Freemasonry and think "I want in," but that's easier said than done. If you haven't got a family member or friend to bring you in, the whole process of joining a lodge is foreign.

Where are the lodges? Are they all the same? Is this whole Freemasonry thing right for me? Am I right for Freemasonry? The Internet is no help. You're as likely to run into a conspiracy nut as you are anyone with sensible information.

THE BRICKYARD tells you everything you need to know to find and petition a Masonic Lodge, what to expect when you do, and how to prepare yourself mentally for entering this ancient and noble craft.MATT GALLAGHER is the author of Practical Freemasonry and The Practicing Freemason Newsletter. He has been published in the Short Talk Bulletin and the Scottish Rite Journal, and featured on the Whence Came You? and After Lodge podcasts.

75 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 21, 2021

About the author

Matt Gallagher is a US Army veteran and the author of four books, including the novels Youngblood and Daybreak. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Wired, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia, he is the recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence. He lives with his family in Tulsa, Oklahoma.