The magazine is being mailed to all members over the weekend of 4-5 December. The full list of featured articles is as below:

'Clutching the cameo shell': Sharon Phillippo reflects on the training projects for writers in Wales, run jointly by literaturetraining and the Academi.

Project Hero: Joanna Ingham reports on how libraries, museums and young offenders' institutes have worked creatively with young offenders with basic skills needs.

Christina Rossetti and the Young Writer: Fred Sedgwick provides a third instalment of his work using traditional writers in the classroom.

Class Clowns: Barry Stone gives a blow by blow account of his work with challenging pupils in the North East.

The Green Island, the Translucent Sky: Christian McEwen offers 'some notes on time and space and poetry', urging us all to slow down.

From New York to York: Selected books from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative available through NAWE.

The Responsibilities of the Poet: Peter Abbs' lecture from the John Hewett Summer School in Armagh in July 2004.

In defence of workshops: Charlie Bell offers a response to Rob Mimpriss ('Rewriting the Individual' in Writing in Education No. 26).

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker: Kathy Flann recounts her attempt to make use of community speakers in the creative writing classroom.

Why, in spite of everything, I'm still a committed teacher: Janet Cameron explains how she faced up to a discrimination charge by one of her students

Negotiating Difference: Phil Emery on issues of accreditation in adult continuing education.