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On May 1st, students and teachers from University Settlement's Family Literacy Program joined over 150 other writers, teachers, tutors, site advisors, and adult literacy advocates to celebrate the realease of the fifth volume of the Literacy Review.

In Fall 2001, June Foley, Writing Program director at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University began teaching a writing class in University Settlement's Family Literacy program. She was so impressed by the writers' work that she compiled a 28-page "book," and had it printed and stapled together at Kinko's. That book, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, not only inspired many more from the University Settlement writing class, the latest of which is the 113-page Celebration, it also inspired The Literacy Review.

The fifth volume of the Literacy Review is 112 pages long. Six NYU student-editors read 402 submissions and chose works by 63 writers from 35 adult literacy sites from all five boroughs.

To learn more about the Literacy Review please email June Foley, Writing Program director at The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Click here to read University Settlement Family Literacy student Yuqing Gu's "Do You Know How Lucky You Are?"