This anthology includes 19 essays about writing fiction, drama, nonfiction, and poetry, and on translation, editing, and many related topics, by Ardath Mayhar, Victor J. Banis, Charles Allen Gramlich, W. C. Bamberger, Charles Nuetzel, Robert Reginald, Y. Du Bois Irvin, Elliott D. Hammer, Damien Broderick, Michael R. Collings, Brian Stableford, John Howard Weeks, William Maltese, Francis Jarman, and Frank J. Morlock.