To train writers to write books for new literates in Zambia who need high interest-low reading level materials on practical matters, a workshop was organized. The training cycle occurred over a period of several years, beginning in 1980 with the planning phase and the Kabwe Community Development Training Course, the first training element in the training cycle. The 22 trainees in the course were to write literacy primers to cover each of the seven official languages of Zambia. They were taught an instructional module dealing with how to conduct a reading survey, do vocabulary research, determine readability, write simply, structure a book, translate from English, and pretest written materials. In the second training element, which lasted five months, the trainees were sent to different provinces to complete the research and writing tasks assigned to them at Kabwe. In May 1981, the writers brought their work to the Kitwe workshop, the culmination of the training cycle, where the manuscripts of books for new literates were prepared. Twenty district and provincial community development officers were invited to assume the role of "editors." The Kitwe workshop went through three evaluations: the formative evaluation of the workshop, the end-of-the-workshop evaluation, and the evaluation of outcomes. (EL)