LINKS TO NARRATIVE JOURNALISM ORGANIZATIONS

WriterL is a private, subscription-only listserv tailored for the discussion of narrative writing, feature writing, explanatory journalism, book journalism and the high-level reportage that is associated with such writing.

The Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University currently has five major activities: organizing the 1,000-journalist Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, organizing a springtime seminar for narrative editors, building a set of Web pages (not yet online) linking to current narrative articles, assembling various publications and consulting with news organizations on developing narrative skills.

The University of Pittsburgh's MFA program in creative nonfiction writing is part of the oldest creative writing program in the country and the first to offer a concentration in creative nonfiction.

Goucher College's limited-residency MFA in creative nonfiction writing allows students to complete most of the requirements off campus while developing their skills as nonfiction writers under the close supervision of a faculty mentor. The limited-residency format is particularly well suited for the education of a writer, providing the nurturing supervision of a mentor while allowing students the freedom and solitude to be creative.

LINKS TO NARRATIVE JOURNALISTS

Buzz Bissinger is the author of Friday Night Lights and A Prayer for the City. Formerly a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, he has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Livingston Award, among other honors.

Ted Conover is the author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and Coyote: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens

Melissa Fay Greene is a magazine and book author in Atlanta. Her books include Praying for Sheetrock and The Temple Bombing.

John McPhee is a Pulitzer Prize winning author of twenty-five books, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Susan Orlean is an author of several books, including The Orchid Thief, and a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Patsy Sims is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction: The Klan, Cleveland Benjamin’s Dead and Can Somebody Shout Amen! She is also the editor of Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example and co-author of the narration for the award-winning documentary The Klan: A Legacy of Hate. She is director of Goucher College's MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program.

Ron Suskind is an author and journalist based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House and the Education of Paul O’Neill and A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League.

Tom Wolfe is one of the greats in the field, author of The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

A PERSONAL LINK

XOXOX Press is a small literary press in Ohio that publishes quality nonfiction and fiction, including “Coming to You from the Blue Room,” a short story collection by Loranne Temple, my mother.

MORE OF MY FAVORITE NARRATIVE JOURNALISTS (MINUS LINKS)

Mark Bowden, author of Killing Pablo and Black Hawk Down.

Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action.

Tracy Kidder, author of numerous books, including Among Schoolchildren and House.

John Krakauer, author of Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.

Jane Kramer, author of The Last Cowboy and Lone Patriot.

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family.

Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball.