This document contains 58 poems, essays, letters, personal narratives, reminiscences, and short stories that were selected from 255 entries submitted by 170 adult student writers in Ohio. The student-authored literary works, which adult educators can use in their adult literacy classrooms, are grouped under the following themes: family, learning, nature, feelings, and reminiscences. Among the titles included are the following: "Raising Special Children" (Sharon Sheppard-Scott); "I Finally See" (Sharon Harsh); "The Bloodshed of Our Children" (Vickie Hargraves); "Brittany's Brace" (Norma J. King); "Daddies" (Cindy Wright); "My Success" (Tracy Graham); "To Mommy's Little Angel, Rebecca" (Amy Chandler); "An Evening Death" (Toni White); "A Single Mother's Reward" (Sharon Cavell); "Su Ah and Hyun Ah" (Kum Sun Kim); "Innocence Taken" (Regina Mulkey); "An Unsolved Fire" (Karen S. Smith); "A Tribute to the Step-Up Experience" (Karen Bowman); "Never Give Up" (Ruan Luong); "Safety at Home" (Kathy Brooks); "My Life's Dream" (Nora Thomas); "The Greatness in Yourself" (Stacy Jones); "Santa's Wife a Missing" (Karen Safewright); "Angle of the Lake" (Phil Edwards); "Maybe Tomorrow I'll Find What I'm After (A Man in Search of a Love)" (Lonnie Littleton); "My Old Kentucky Home" (Glen A. Baldwin); "Ramadan" (Traci Cornist); "Sharecropping" (Harold Lester); "Christmas in Ukraine" (Zenia Kovalska); "Hair Day" (Norma J. King); and "Wildmen" (Ken Tallon). Concluding the document are biographies of the authors and a list of honorable mention winners. (MN)