For a month in the summer of 2004, a select group of teachers from the greater Detroit area of Southeastern Michigan assembled on the campus of Oakland University in Pawley Hall. There they bonded through the sharing of personal and professional writings. The diverse group of two dozen educators took the risk of becoming students once again so as to become more assured teachers. In the Company of Writers 2004 is the fifth in a series of ongoing anthologies coming from this Meadow Brook Writing Project experience. As a result of this collaborative effort to enhance writing skills and instructional practices, participants from kindergarten through college level returned to their classrooms in the Fall especially inspired to pass on to their students the many innovations they had so bravely ventured to learn. "The best teachers of writing are other teachers. They will establish a connection with their students (and) also serve as writing experts to their fellow instructors." Dr. Ron Sudol Director MBWP "The Writer's Workshop has shown me ways to release the voice in me, so that I can release the voice in my students." Janice Dunbar 2004 Meadow Brook Fellow