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This monograph investigates 15 L2 creative writers’ social constructive power in identity constructions. Through interviews and think-aloud story writing sessions, the central study considers how L2 writer voices are mediated by the writers’ autobiographical identities, namely, their sense of selves formulated by their previous language learning and literacy experiences. The inquiry takes the epistemological stance that L2 creative writing is simultaneously a cognitive construct and a social phenomenon and that these two are mutually inclusive. The study contributes to L2 creative writing research and L2 learner identity research and will be of benefit to researchers, language teachers and writing instructors who wish to understand creative writing processes in order to help develop their students’ positive self-esteem, confidence, motivation and engagement with the L2.

Second language acquisition --- Academic writing --- English language --- Creative writing --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Germanic languages --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Study and teaching. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Rhetoric --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- L2 creative writers. --- L2 learner identity. --- L2 writer voices. --- L2 writing. --- SLA. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- creative writing processes. --- creative writing. --- self. --- writing in an L2.