John Warner (writer)

For other people with the same name, see John Warner (disambiguation).

John Warner (born 1970) is an American writer, editor, and teacher of writing. ^[1] He is the editor of McSweeney's Internet Tendency , a frequent contributor to The Morning News , ^[2] and has been anthologized in May Contain Nuts,Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction, and The Future Dictionary of America.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

Warner previously taught at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. His focus was creative writing, and he was the director of a Humor Creative Inquiry. In this inquiry, he was working to teach students what humor is and how to create it. This three course series resulted in a student publication in 2008. Warner teaches creative writing at College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.^{[ citation needed ]} He was the "Chief Creative Czar" of TOW Books, a publishing imprint dedicated to humorous books distributed by F+W Publications. ^{[3] [4]} The line was inspired by his book, Fondling Your Muse (2005), which parodies Writer's Digest . ^[4]

Warner frequently collaborates with writer Kevin Guilfoile. ^[5] Warner's most debut novel was The Funny Man. The book has been reviewed by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews . ^{[6] [7]} His short story collection Tough Day for the Army, edited by Michael Griffith, was published by the LSU Press series, Yellow Shoe Fiction, in 2014. ^[8]

Works

As author

• More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI (2025) ( ISBN   978-1541605503) ^{[9] [10]}
• Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education (2020) ( ISBN   978-1948742955)
• The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (2019) ( ISBN   978-0143133155) ^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (2018) ( ISBN   978-1421437989) ^{[14] [15] [16]}
• The Funny Man (2011) ( ISBN   978-1569479735)
• So You Want to Be President? (2008) ( ISBN   1-582-97519-1)
• Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice from a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant (2005) ( ISBN   1-582-97348-2)
• My First Presidentiary (2001) (with Kevin Guilfoile) ( ISBN   0-609-80818-4) ^[17]

As editor or co-editor

• Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists (2006) ( ISBN   0-307-27720-8)
• Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category (2005) ( ISBN   1-400-07685-4)

Personal life

Warner's great uncle is the American writer Allan Seager. ^[18]

References

1. "Interview with John Warner, "Teaching Writing in an Age of AI"". The Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast (Podcast). Retrieved January 20, 2023.
2. www.themorningnews.org, The Morning News LLC (October 26, 2012). "The Morning News". The Morning News . Retrieved January 28, 2016.
3. "TOW Books: An Exciting New Sales Strategy! | WritersDigest.com". WritersDigest.com. August 8, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
4. Rosen, Judith (June 25, 2007). "F+W Puts the Focus on Brands". Publishers Weekly . Vol. 254, no. 26. EBSCOhost   25571840.
5. "An Interview with Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner - by John Warner and Kevin Guilfoile - Eclectica Magazine v12n3". eclectica.org. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
6. "The Funny Man by John Warner". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved June 4, 2025.
7. "THE FUNNY MAN by John Warner | Kirkus Reviews". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
8. "Tough Day for the Army by John Warner". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved June 4, 2025.
9. "MORE THAN WORDS | Kirkus Reviews" . Retrieved June 4, 2025.
10. "More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved June 4, 2025.
11. "The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing by John Warner". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved June 4, 2025.
12. Grabowski, William (December 2018). "The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing". Library Journal . Vol. 143, no. 20. pp. 78–79. EBSCOhost   133516423.
13. Eathorne, Courtney. "The Writer's Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing". Booklist . Vol. 115, no. 7. p. 13. EBSCOhost   133468445.
14. Wyse, Dominic (January 2021). "Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities by JohnWarner (2018). Baltimore, MA: Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN: 978142142710, 288pp". Literacy . 55 (1): 77. doi:10.1111/lit.12213. EBSCOhost   148304851.
15. Mazzoni, João Fernando Rossi (October 11, 2024). "Review of Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities". Education Review . 31. doi: 10.14507/er.v31.3885 .
16. Joyner, Helen (October 2019). "Book Review of Why They Can't Write by John Warner". The Journal of Food Science Education . 18 (4): 97–98. doi:10.1111/1541-4329.12171.
17. Robischon, Noah (April 13, 2001). "My First Presidentiary (Book Review)". Entertainment Weekly . No. 591. p. 71. EBSCOhost   4308686.
18. Warner, John (July 12, 2011). "The Man Behind the Window". The Morning News . Retrieved June 4, 2025.

External links

• Just Visiting (Warner's blog at Inside Higher Ed)