Writing Workshop Series …

NARRATIVE NON-FICTION WRITING — Combining fiction writing with the rigorous demands for accuracy.

Stuart Warner

Stuart Warner has developed a national reputation as an editor and teacher of literary journalism. He has written or edited three Pulitzer Prize-winning entries and edited three other Pulitzer finalists.

His 20,000-word narrative, The Goodyear War, was the centerpiece of the Akron Beacon Journal’s 1987 Pulitzer-winning effort. He edited and supervised the 1994 Pulitzer Gold Medal winning project, A Question of Color. At the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, he edited Connie Schultz’s columns that won the 2005 Pulitzer for commentary and he edited Schultz’s 25,000-word series Burden of Innocence, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Award for social justice reporting and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in feature writing. The past two years, he edited the columns of Regina Brett, who was a finalist for the Pulitzer for commentary in 2008 and 2009.

Warner’s writers have won more than 50 other national honors for newspaper writing, including the Silver Gavel, the Molly Ivins Award, the Dart Award, the James Batten Medal, the National Headliner and the Paul Myhre Award for feature writing. In 2006 alone, seven of the writers he edits won national awards. At the 2005 Nieman Foundation Conference on Narrative Writing, then Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll singled out The Plain Dealer, where Warner worked as writing coach and projects editor, as one of the five newspapers in the country producing great narrative writing.

In addition to winning the Pulitzer, Warner has been honored numerous times for his own writing. Twice he was named best columnist in the Ohio and twice he was named best magazine writer in the state. .

Warner has been invited to speak on writing at the Nieman narrative conference at Harvard, the National Writers Workshop sponsored by the Poynter Institute, the IRE’s national Computer Assisted Reporting workshop and at Capitolbeat, the national seminar for state government reporters. He has his own writing consulting company, The Write Coach LLC, and has taught literary journalism at Cleveland State University.

Warner recently completed a non-fiction book, “JOCK: The Quickest Thinking Coach in America,” which is scheduled to be published next year by Wind Publications. He is currently working on another non-fiction book.