The Literature Committee is considering a new book for SA that would address such topics as developing healthy groups, guidelines for meetings, sponsorship, helping newcomers, a history of SA, and more. Parts of Discovering the Principles and the SA Meeting Guide will also be included. But help is needed from each group (and Intergroup).

Along with each issue of the Essay, subscribers and Intergroups will receive short, pamphlet-sized papers that will address single topics that are of current interest to the Fellowship. Members are invited to copy, distribute, and discuss them, then send your comments to the SA Central Office for consideration by the Literature Committee. These critiques will be the basis for the direction of the book. The first working paper is included with this issue.

Tapes Available

Many SA and S-Anon Tape Albums are available to members from Glenn K Audio Tapes. For further information, contact Glenn K Audio Tapes at 1-800-257-TAPE. A list of tapes is also available.

Spanish Literature Available

Two official items, the White Book (el Libro Blanco), and Discovering the Principles (Descubriendo los Principios) have been translated into Spanish. The prices are $8.00 for the former and $2.00 for the latter, plus shipping and handling charges (check order form). The two non-official items distributed by the Central Office, “Notes on the Early Growth of SA” (“Notas sobre los comienzos de SA”), and “Some Opinion, Medical And Personal, On The Physiological Aspects Of Male Sexual Abstinence” (“Algunas Opiniones, Medicas y Personales, Sobre Los Aspectos Fisiologicos de la Abstinencia Sexual Masculina”) are also available in Spanish. And all literature can be ordered from Nashville Central Office. See Order Form on p. 9.

A bilingual order form and the Spanish brochure are included among the material usually sent to inquirers from Spanish-speaking countries or to Hispanics in the U.S.

We ask all our readers to share this information with all the Spanish-speaking members they might know. We are sure that reading program literature in their own language will be very helpful to all of them, and will strengthen their sobriety.

Call For Recovery Stories In Spanish And Portuguese

There is urgent need for recovery stories from both men and women (and S-Anons) in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. Preferably on audio cassette. These stories will be used as member-to-member sharing until more complete resources are made available. Members who want to contribute should get prior approval from their group. Use first names only: Tell “What it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now.” Send tapes/typewritten stories to the SA Central Office, where masters will be kept.

Elect Essay Rep

During a recent meeting the SA Literature Committee voted that “The SA Literature Committee recommend to the fellowship that each SA group elect an Essay representative who will create the Essay consciousness, implement its distribution, and receive input from the group and from individual members for the Essay.” Please see “Central Office Begins Process of Updating Records” for further information on how to register your Essay representative.