We had 13 first timers this week,either running with us for the first time or visiting us for the first time.Thanks for running with us and we hope you enjoyed it.We look forward to seeing you again next week or the next time you're in the area. 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. 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. Its our third birthday next week so please feel free to wear fancy dress and bring along cake if you want.

During the MA at Bath Spa I completed a novel called “I See Through You”. It was taken up by the WME agency and sold to the Orion Publishing Group. It is a novel about female obsession and male entitlement and will be published in November 2018. I was feeling lonely and I attended Creative Writing classes in Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education. It was a lifeline.” Tes Asfaw is a screenwriter and story consultant. He has an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. He lectures in creative writing as well as literary analysis with a writerly eye for drama and prose. Currently, Tes has projects in development with Mammoth Screen, Escape Plan, and Two and Two. He has had short stories and poems published. Outside of Higher Education, Tes teaches creative writing for the Villiers Park Educational Trust, a national social justice charity for underrepresented young people aged 14-19. He spent years working as a literacy project worker for homeless and vulnerable people in Oxford. Lucy Ayrton Our first finisher (female) was Emily Kearney (6th) who ran 18:06,then Katie Bagley in 19:01 (11th) and Helen Stansfield in 19:33 (18th)Our first finisher (male) this week was Adam Peers in a time of 16:04,mext up was Joe Boden in 16:53 with Phil Langan in 17:10. A beautiful and extraordinary debut novel. . . full of intelligence and utterly gripping' Claire Kendal, author of The Book of You

Happy Birthday to Fiona Bradbury from Knowsley Harriers who was celebrating her birthday today.She ran a pb of 29:04 and I'm sure was moved by the almost harmonious rendition of 'Happy birthday to you!' as she ran past the funnel area. 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. It’s about being lonely, and not heard; not believing you have a place in world unless someone else validates it.” Victoria Condie has taught for the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education since 2000 on its award-bearing courses, public programmes and summer schools. As a medievalist by training, whose doctoral thesis looked at the way language is used in certain Old English prose sermons and verse, she is particularly aware of how writers craft language to their own persuasive ends. Currently, she is a Bye-fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge where she teaches English Literature and its Contexts 1300-1550 and Practical Criticism and Critical Practice for the Cambridge English Tripos. Her areas of research concentrate on the way writers use language, especially in prose. Her current work investigates the rhythms and cadences of Old English as it is used to achieve a specific effect; in this instance, an exploration of the deliberate contrast in prose effected by Kenneth Grahame in the non-narrative chapters of The Wind in the Willows. Claire Crowther Hello and welcome to this week`s run report.Another great turnout this week with 302 runners including a strong turn out from Wallasey AC who were running with and supporting their clubmate Keith Marsden who was completing 2017 miles for the year in aid of Macmillan. Congratulations Keith! No choccies in the finish funnel but there were fruit pastilles and 50% of the barcode scanners had pink or sparkly wellies.I SEE THROUGH YOU is a psychological suspense about a woman who is ghosted and becomes obsessed with infiltrating her ex’s life. It’s also about unrequited love and not knowing where your place in the world is without someone to validate it. Where did the inspiration come from? Our two-year,part-time Diploma in Creative Writingallows you to strengthen your ability in four major areas of literary activity — prose, poetry, drama and analytical reading — as well as the chance to specialise in the genre of your choice. After university, Daisy moved to London and worked in publishing, starting out as an editorial assistant. 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 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.

I came to live in a city five years ago and felt foreign and uneasy for the first twelve months and the best part of the next. Of course, cities are busy places and that was not unexpected. It just seemed that all the all the busy-ness was connected; whether those I came across were school mothers, academics, pub-owners, artists, I felt as though everyone and everything was linked, and I was an outsider. I completed the MA at Bath Spa with Distinction and last year was successful in my application to study for a PhD in Creative Writing at the same university. The PhD takes the form of two components, critical and creative. The creative aspect of my work is a novel called “The Hyacinth Garden” and the critical component explores the link between narrative unreliability, jealousy and impotence with particular emphasis on the first person observer as narrator. There are no set texts but wewill focus on, althoughnot be limited to, works written by and about women: 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 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 HughesFirst 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!