I See Through You

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Our first finisher (male) was Phil Langan who ran 16:28,next was William Richardson,a first timer with us today.His time was 17:09 and Steven Leslie ran 17:56. First finisher (female) was Charlotte Towers ,a first timer with us,in 19:10 (15th),next was Zoe Brunton with a pb of 20:06 (22nd) and Elaine Opara,also with a pb,of 20:53 (35th) Congratulations again! First finisher (female) was Elaine Sargent who ran a new PB of 22:14 (34th).Next was a first timer on our course,Tessa Loftus,who ran 23:09 (40th) and Anna Kenny who ran 23:28 (45th)

Aleksandra (Senja) Andrejevic is a Senior Lecturer in Dramatic Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. Her short prose has been published in The Lampeter Review, The Wrong Quarterly, Scrutiny Journal, The Dawntreader, Literary Mama, Brain, Child, Storgyand other magazines. In 2019, Aleksandra was awarded funding by Arts Council England, through their National Lottery Project Grant, for her play HALF.She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing with University of Gloucestershire, where she's currently in the final stages of her PhD. She has recently completed her first novel and is represented by Llorella Belli Literary Agency in London. Tes AsfawI hadn’t heard of the concept of “ghosting” before my editor at Orion told me about it. The Urban Dictionary defines it as:

If you haven`t volunteered before its an excellent way to see parkrun from another angle and appreciate the amount of hard work that goes into putting this free event on. And you get to wear hi vis,and I always have fruit pastilles.

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We will also be collecting for Wirral Foodbank next week.Now,we were hoping they`d be able to bring along their van to collect what we collect but unfortunately they can`t do that.I have no idea how much we`ll collect but between the volunteers we will take the donations to local supermarkets who have collection areas and if anyone can help with that (depending on what we get) that`ll be great.Like the plogging its something we`ll be looking to do again very soon.

Of course, my character Skye isn’t perfect, and she gets a lot of things wrong. Above all, she makes the mistake of thinking she can unearth the truth in social media, which is impossible. Nearly everyone in the novel is either misrepresenting themselves or telling outright lies, not least the two main male characters whose sense of entitlement enables them to believe they are above dealing with what they label female ‘craziness.’ Towards the end, coming to terms about what she has done, and with the sort of man Johnny is, Skye asserts, again and again, what her name is, and who she is. Angus McFadzean is a lecturer specialising in British and American Literature and Film. He is the Program Director of the Oxford University Summer School for Adults and teaches on international programmes for the Continuing Education Department. He is the author of Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century(Columbia University Press, 2019) and the editor of James Joyce’s Epiphanies: A Critical Edition, forthcoming from University of Florida Press (2023). He holds a doctorate from Wadham College, Oxford on James Joyce and the Aesthetics of Transgression. He has published on James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon and Hollywood cinema and has taught widely on literature of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century, specifically modernism and the works of Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and WB Yeats. Nicholas McInerny I was feeling lonely and I attended Creative Writing classes in Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education. It was a lifeline.” Angela France has had poems published in many leading journals and has been anthologised a number of times. Her publications include Occupation(Ragged Raven Press, 2009), Lessons in Mallemaroking(Nine Arches Press, 2011), Hide(Nine Arches Press 2013) and The Hill(Nine Arches Press, 2017). The Hillhas been developed into a live multi-media poetry show which Angela has been touring, funded by Arts Council England. Her latest collection, Terminarchy, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2021 and launched at Ledbury Poetry Festival. She has an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing and a PhD from the University of Gloucestershire. Angela teaches creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings. Jeremy Hughes

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Congratulations to Jane McGee and Ruth Pritchard who celebrated their 50th parkruns today and Les Kennedy who planned his 100th parkrun today to coincide with his 50th birthday tomorrow! After taking a diploma in Creative Writing, Daisy signed up for a Masters at Bath Spa University, coming out with Distinction.

First finisher (female) was Carola Robinson in 22:31(28th),next was Anna Kenny in 22:42 (33rd) and Sarah Corran in 23:46 (51st) Daisy McNally has a PhD from Bath Spa University in Creative Writing, and a degree in English Literature from Durham University. She teaches on a variety of Creative Writing courses for Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education, including running regular weekly courses on writing fiction as well as summer schools, and on the Undergraduate Diploma programme.She is especially interested in women’s and psychological fiction. Daisy is the author of I See Through Youpublished by Orion in 2018 and is currently writing another novel. Jessica Moriarty I also want to mention all the other runners who came along today.Thanks to all of you for running with us today. The ghosting element in the novel was clearly something that resonated with many of the younger editorial team I was working with. 80% of millennials report that they have been “ghosted”. And I think I got it: I certainly understood the power of silence, and I was writing about not being heard, and not knowing you could have a place in the world without someone validating it.

DAISY McNALLY writes from her home in Oxford where she lives with her two children and spends as much time as she can with her partner James on the Beaulieu River near Lymington in Hampshire. She is a Durham University English Lit graduate and more recently of Bath Spa University where she gained a distinction in the MA in Creative Writing. She is currently working on her second novel for a PhD in Creative Writing. After university, Daisy moved to London and worked in publishing, starting out as an editorial assistant. First finisher today on his 50th parkrun was Jay Walker in a time of 17:25.Next was Ashley Crawford in 17:36 and one of our funnel managers Mike Green who ran 18:26,just in front of another funnel manager John Armstrong with 18:33.Funnel managers a bit like buses today. Running, walking on the beach, going out on the water in boats. Bothering my children. Retweeting things I think are funny. Tell us one Christmas tradition you follow without fail.