Paul Williams is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has published prize-winning fiction, young adult novels, memoir, non-fiction and short stories, a series of crime novels, and textbooks on creative writing including Novel Ideas: Writing Innovative Fiction (2019) and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016), co-authored with Shelley Davidow. www.paulwilliamsauthor.comShelley Davidow is an award-winning author of 51 books and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Recent titles include The Girl with the Violin (2024), the memoirs Runaways (2022), Shadow Sisters (2018), Whisperings in the Blood (2016), and the creative writing textbooks Writing the Radical Memoir (2023), and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016) co-authored with Paul Williams. www.shelleydavidow.com; Instagram: @shelleydavidow

• List of FiguresAuthors’ NoteChapter One: Why we write Chapter Two: A Wacky ScenarioChapter Three: The Kate Chopin ExperimentChapter Four: Countering the Commodification of Creative WritingChapter Five: Humanism and Anti-Humanism Chapter Six: Posthumanism, Transhumanism and New Materialism Chapter Seven: Spilt Ink Chapter Eight: Writing human in the academy Chapter Nine: Writing the unexpectedChapter Ten: Writing phenomenological selves Bibliography

Paul Williams is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has published prize-winning fiction, young adult novels, memoir, non-fiction and short stories, a series of crime novels, and textbooks on creative writing including Novel Ideas: Writing Innovative Fiction (2019) and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016), co-authored with Shelley Davidow. www.paulwilliamsauthor.comShelley Davidow is an award-winning author of 51 books and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Recent titles include The Girl with the Violin (2024), the memoirs Runaways (2022), Shadow Sisters (2018), Whisperings in the Blood (2016), and the creative writing textbooks Writing the Radical Memoir (2023), and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016) co-authored with Paul Williams. www.shelleydavidow.com; Instagram: @shelleydavidow

• List of FiguresAuthors’ NoteChapter One: Why we write Chapter Two: A Wacky ScenarioChapter Three: The Kate Chopin ExperimentChapter Four: Countering the Commodification of Creative WritingChapter Five: Humanism and Anti-Humanism Chapter Six: Posthumanism, Transhumanism and New Materialism Chapter Seven: Spilt Ink Chapter Eight: Writing human in the academy Chapter Nine: Writing the unexpectedChapter Ten: Writing phenomenological selves Bibliography

Paul Williams is Associate Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has published prize-winning fiction, young adult novels, memoir, non-fiction and short stories, a series of crime novels, and textbooks on creative writing including Novel Ideas: Writing Innovative Fiction (2019) and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016), co-authored with Shelley Davidow. www.paulwilliamsauthor.comShelley Davidow is an award-winning author of 51 books and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Recent titles include The Girl with the Violin (2024), the memoirs Runaways (2022), Shadow Sisters (2018), Whisperings in the Blood (2016), and the creative writing textbooks Writing the Radical Memoir (2023), and Playing with Words: An Introduction to Creative Writing Craft (2016) co-authored with Paul Williams. www.shelleydavidow.com; Instagram: @shelleydavidow

• List of FiguresAuthors’ NoteChapter One: Why we write Chapter Two: A Wacky ScenarioChapter Three: The Kate Chopin ExperimentChapter Four: Countering the Commodification of Creative WritingChapter Five: Humanism and Anti-Humanism Chapter Six: Posthumanism, Transhumanism and New Materialism Chapter Seven: Spilt Ink Chapter Eight: Writing human in the academy Chapter Nine: Writing the unexpectedChapter Ten: Writing phenomenological selves Bibliography