The Healdsburg Literary Guild is delighted to publish this new book, Healdsburg and Beyond -Forty Writers Celebrate a Special California Town and Beyond. It follows a number of previous Guild publications, including Healdsburg Alive , A Day in the Life of Healdsburg, Present at the Creation, Healdsburg Haiku, and several poetry chapbooks. The contents of this new book are the results of an open call the Guild issued last year. The book features forty writers and poets and their fifty-two poems and seventeen short stories. It is organized into three sections. The first section, Healdsburg, has poems and short stories set in Healdsburg and its environs. The second section, and Beyond , has poems and stories set, as the title implies, beyond Healdsburg's environs, although many of the pieces could best be categorized as place neutral or anywhere place. However, readers will visit several other states in the United States, and countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. The third section, Literary Illuminations, features the fifteen winning entries in a quarterly contest the Guild conducted for its members from the first quarter of 2013 through the first quarter of 2015.