We are delighted to announce the publication of the fall issue of Literacy in Composition Studies, now live at www.licsjournal.org. This special issue, “Composing a Further Life, was edited by Lauren Marshall Bowen and Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, and features the following pieces:

• “Composing a Further Life: Introduction to the Special Issue” by Lauren Marshall Bowen

• “The Writing Ecologies of Older American Activists” by Yvonne Teems

• “‘Still Learning’: One Couple’s Literacy Development in Older Adulthood” by Lauren Rosenberg

• “Making Meaning in (and of) Old Age: The Value of Lifelong Literacy” by Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk

• “Critical Literacy for Older Adults: Engaging (and Resisting) Transformative Education as an United Methodist Woman” by Janet Bean

• “Faith, Squirrels, and Artwork: the Expansive Agency of Textual Coordination in the Literate Action of Older Writers” by Ryan J. Dippre

• “Achieving Visibility: Midlife and Older Women’s Literate Practices on Instagram and Blogs” by Laura McGrath

• “More than Preaching to the Choir: Religious Literate Activity and Civic Engagement in Older Adults” by Annie Kelvie

• “Challenging the Rhetorical Conception of Health Literacy: Aging, Interdependence, and Networked Caregiving” by Dawn S. Opel

• “Coming of Age in the Era of Acceleration: Rethinking Literacy Narratives as Pedagogies of Lifelong Learning” by Douglas Hall and Michael Harker

• “Afterword: Horizons of Transformations: When Age, Literacy, and Scholarship Meet” by Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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