This book contains an introduction and 11 essays describing reading and writing projects in which adult literacy learners enrolled in the following types of programs participated: adult literacy and/or language classes, refugee groups, oral history and reminiscence projects, and community publishing and writing workshops. The following essays are included: "Introduction" (Mace); "Sailing out from Safe Harbours: Writing for Publishing in Adult Basic Education" (Fitzpatrick); "Can't, Won't or Don't: Readers and Writers in Adult Education" (O'Rourke); "Working with Words: Active Learning in a Community Writing and Publishing Group" (Hayler, Thomson); "'You Can't Write Until You Can Spell!': Attitudes to Writing amongst Adult Basic Education Students" (Wallis); "Working on Writing with Refugees" (Sunderland); "Writers in Search of an Audience: Taking Writing from Personal to Public" (Duffin); "Reminiscence as Literacy: Intersections and Creative Moments" (Mace); "Disappearing Language: Fragments and Fractures between Speech and Writing" (Harris); "Controlling or Empowering? Writing through a Scribe in Adult Basic Education" (Moss); "Oral History and Bilingual Publishing" (Kyriacou); and "Improving on the Blank Page" (Taylor). A subject index is included. (MN)