This edited volume explores the nature of writing groups inside and outside the academic environment. For writing instructors, writing center directors & scholars researching writing groups.

Contents: B.L. Stay, Series Foreword. N.P. Highberg, B.J. Moss, M. Nicolas, Introduction: Writing Groups as Literary Events. Part I:Writing Groups Within the Curriculum: Pedagogical Approaches and Concerns.R. Jackson, "I Don't Talk to Blacks," or Contextual Constraints on Peer Writing Groups in the Prison College Classroom. T.K.H. Piontek, Wrestling With the Angels: Writing Groups, Messy Texts, and Truly Collaborative Writing. J.A. Anderson, S.W. Murphy, Bringing the Writing Center Into the Classroom: A Case Study of Writing Groups. M. Gilewicz, Sponsoring Student Response in Writing Center Group Tutorials. S. Thomas, L. Smith, T.T. Barry, Shaping Writing Groups in the Sciences. H.B. Hessler, A.R. Taggert, Reciprocal Expertise: Community Service and the Writing Group. K. Day, M. Eodice, Coauthoring as Place: A Different Ethos. Part II:Writing Groups in the Extracurriculum: Broadening the Focus.C. Spigelman, "Species" of Rhetoric: Deliberative and Epideictic Models in Writing Group Settings. P. Mathieu, K. Westmoreland, M. Ibrahem, W. Plowman, C. Cohen, Questions of Time: Publishing and Group Identity in the StreetWise Writers Group. R.S. Nowacek, K. del Sol, Making Space for Collaboration: Physical Context and Role Taking in Two Singing and Songwriting Groups. L. Beckstead, K. Brooke, R. Brooke, K. Christensen, D. Jacobs, H.L.M. Jacobs, C. MacDaniels, J. Ratliff, The Thursday Night Writing Group: Crossing Institutional Lines. T.T. Barry, J.G. Bevins, M.K. Crawford, E. Demers, J.B. Hara, M.R. Hughes, M.A.K. Sherby, A Group of Our Own: Women and Writing Groups: A Reconsideration. E. Westbrook, Community, Collaboration, and Conflict: The Community Writing Group as Contact Zone. M. Nicolas, B.J. Moss, N.P. Highberg, Afterword.