Daisy McNally is a forty-something mother and PhD student of creative writing dividing time between Oxford and Lymington. I SEE THROUGH YOU was begun on the MA at Bath Spa Uni. Tell us about your book. Education: North Foreland Lodge. “I hated it!” Durham University, English Literature. Bath Spa University, MA in Creative Writing and currently finishing a PhD. I went on to take an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, which is when I began writing I See Through You and wrestling with the complicated female protagonist I’d had forming in my mind.

So although she behaves in a way that’s not really justifiable in a moral sense, it’s not so extraordinary given the context she finds herself in. She is trying to (re-) connect with people. I’d like her to make for uncomfortable reading because she’s someone that a lot of us, broken-hearted and ignored, might identify with at times in our lives. As she says in the book, “Liars are easily made,” whether we are just trying to conceal our innate loneliness or present a better, more palatable version of ourselves to the outside world and particularly those we want to love us. It’s about being lonely, and not heard; not believing you have a place in world unless someone else validates it.” 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. Hello and welcome to this week`s run report which is being written whilst watching the England game to add that danger element to the proceedings.We had another excellent turnout of 427 runners,thanks to all of you and thanks to our volunteers.We had to make a few job changes late on but all went well and we really appreciate all the support you give us.Congratulations to all our runners and volunteers who ran the 52 miles of the Tour of Merseyside this week.I popped up after parkrun with the pink sparkly welly plogging lady aka Gemma to see the finish and it was good to see so many familiar faces being awesome.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. After taking a diploma in Creative Writing, Daisy signed up for a Masters at Bath Spa University, coming out with Distinction. Mike Johnstone is an established novelist and a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. Writing as D.D. Johnston, he’s the author of four novels, and his short fiction has been shortlisted for The Bridport Prize. He’s been described as “Bringing light to a dark world” ( The Financial Times) and “one of the country’s most important left-wing fiction writers” ( The Morning Star). Published in July 2022, his fourth novel, Disnaeland, has been called “gripping, funny, and hopeful” ( The Times) and “wildly imaginative” ( Scotland on Sunday). Helen Jukes

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. 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 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. 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)Thanks very much to all our first timers this week,we look forward to seeing you again next week or the next time you`re in the area. We hope you enjoyed your Birkenhead parkrun experience. A beautiful and extraordinary debut novel. . . full of intelligence and utterly gripping’ Claire Kendal, author of The Book of You Hello and welcome to this week's run report.It was cool and a Peppa pig umbrella was spotted but there wasn't much rain.We had 247 excellent runners,thank you very much for supporting our parkrun today. Its our third birthday next week so please feel free to wear fancy dress and bring along cake if you want. 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.

We had 37 first timers this week,either running with is for the first time or visiting us(I heard West London mentioned in the briefing) We look forward to seeing you again next week or the next time you are in the area.We hope you enjoyed running with us today.Our first timers this week were Jamie Rutherford,David Hallida,Dave Lehmann,James Whittaker, Brian Parrington,Sarah Pitt,Gary Jones,James Moore,Daisy Ball,Ewan Brett,Adam Valentine,Anne Kelly,Annie Lehmann,Rebecca McAlees,Joanne Yorke,Chloe Scott,Oliver Yorke,Jenny Staples,Anna Philpott,Dermot Carroll, Eleanor Smith,Ikechukwu Emenike,John Klepka,Simon Smith,Sarah Lewis,Helen Johnson,Laura Scott,Maisie Yorke,Isla Yorke,Janey Quigley,Beth O`Connell,Beki Smith,Stephanie Gawne,Sandra Fletcher,Sharon Gargan,Rebecca Moore, Chris Moore,Elaine Moore I was feeling lonely and I attended Creative Writing classes in Oxford’s Department of Continuing Education. It was a lifeline.” Edward Clarke’s latest collection of poems is called Cherubims(Kelsay Books, 2022). A Book of Psalmswas published by Paraclete Press in 2020. ‘Clarke’s Psalter,’ the documentary he presented about writing these poems in conversation with the Psalms, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018. A selection of his poems, called The Voice inside Our Home, was published at the beginning of 2022 by SLG Press. He is also the author of two books of criticism, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens(Palgrave Macmillan 2012) and The Vagabond Spirit of Poetry(Iff Books, 2014). His teaching experience began almost twenty years ago at Trinity College, Dublin. Now he teaches creative writing and English literature to undergraduates and mature students at various colleges and in the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. He is also poetry editor of the magazine Cassandra Voices. Victoria Condie 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)Hello and welcome to this week's run report.Excuse the extended poem but when inspiration strikes (in Asda) it can't be denied.Anyway,we had 184 runners today.A lot of parkruns were off because off the weather today but apart from the rain,the cold and the wind,it wasn't too bad with us.It was a great event to be a part of and we hope you all enjoyed it half as much as we did in the funnel area. This enduringly popular genre continues to captivate–and sell. Whydo we think this is? What is it about the fusion between a psychological novel and a thriller that can create suchcompelling,and oftenunsettlingnovels? Whattechniques do authors use toproducea successful one? Things got better – my daughter moved school, we made friends, and I slowly began to lose the feeling that we were trespassing. And I joined a small writing group at CONTED, Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. I spent hours that winter in the Bodleian writing my first novel, an updated version of The Mill on the Floss set in Oxford and called After the Flood. I traipsed along frosty towpaths past coal-smokey narrowboats, thinking about isolated women, and being lost. Hello and welcome to this week's run report.We had a fantastic 360 runners this week.Thank you for all joining us this morning.The weather was good ,we had choccies in the finish funnel and 50% of the time keepers wore pink wellies. Daisy McNally had not done any sort of creative writing until studying at Oxford Continuing Education.She has now published her first novel with Orion.

First finisher today was Jordan Donnelly with our third best time overall,and not surprisingly a pb for him,of 15:39.Next,with a pb of 15:42 and our 4th best overall time was Phil Robertson and Harley Henshaw ran a pb of 16:24.Congratulations to all! After university, Daisy moved to London and worked in publishing, starting out as an editorial assistant. I began my first novel "After The Flood" whilst studying for the Diploma at Conted, as part of the Long Fiction module . The tutor of the Long Fiction module,Jeremy Hughes, had been extremely supportive of this project and it is currently being read by my agent at William Morris Endeavor. Our first finisher (female) was Charlotte Towers in a time of 18:19(4th) then Jayne Price of Pensby Runners in a new pb of 19:45 (20th) and Alison Cole, a first timer with us who ran 20:46(39th)!First finisher (male) today was Joe Boden in a pb of 16:23,next was Jamie Rutherford, first time on our course with a time of 17:23 and Ashley Crawford in 17:57. Our first finisher (female) was Helen Stansfield in 20:15 (13th),Katie Cotton,a first timer on our course but running her 260th parkrun ran 21:29 (23rd) with Zara White in 21:59 (36th) 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! 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.