Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Authors -- Introduction -- SECTION I: WRITERS, PUBLISHING AND LEARNING -- 1. Sailing out from Safe Harbours: Writing for Publishing in Adult Basic Education -- 2. Can't, Won't or Don't: Readers and Writers in Adult Education -- 3. Working with Words: Active Learning in a Community Writing and Publishing Group -- SECTION II : FUNCTION AND CREATION -- 4. 'You Can't Write Until You Can Spell': Attitudes to Writing amongst Adult Basic Education Students -- 5. Working on Writing with Refugees -- 6. Writers in Search of an Audience: Taking Writing from Personal to Public -- 7. Reminiscence as Literacy: Intersections and Creative Moments -- SECTION III : LANGUAGE CHOICES AND INTENTIONS -- 8. Disappearing Language: Fragments and Fractures Between Speech and Writing -- 9. Controlling or Empowering? Writing Through a Scribe in Adult Basic Education -- 10. Oral History and Bilingual Publishing -- 11. Improving on the Blank Page -- Index