I See Through You

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Skye has finally met someone she can trust. A holiday romance, of all things. But you know when something real comes along, when it’s meant to be. Don’t you? A week after returning home, and Johnny has disappeared. He hasn’t called or returned her messages. 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 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!

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. 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) 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 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 first finisher (female) was Alaina Beacall,a first timer on our course who ran 18:54 (8th), Ellen-Mary Kearney was next in 19:52 (10th) and Zara White did a pb of 20:49 (16th) 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.

After university, Daisy moved to London and worked in publishing, starting out as an editorial assistant. A beautifully written book. The author is very skilled, and writes clever description, but in a way that feels very natural … her prose is wonderful’ Goodreads reviewerHappy 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. 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 Jess Moriarty has been a Principal Lecturer in Creative Writing for almost ten years and is currently Course Leader for the Creative Writing MA at the University of Brighton. She is an experienced researcher and editor for the book series, Performance and Communitiesfor Intellect Books. She has published extensively on creative writing pedagogy, autoethnography and community engagement. Her last book – Walking for Creative Recovery– explored life writing and walking as a method for supporting well-being and her new book – Creative Conversations– uses a combination of life writing and interviews to offer strategies for motivating the creative processes. Her pedagogic approach has a focus on diversity, personal story-telling and writing for change. Jess is the co-director of the Centre for Arts and Wellbeing Centre for Arts and Wellbeing (brighton.ac.uk)and on the board of directors for Lapidus. International. In 2022, Jess became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 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)

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 First finisher (female) was Charlotte Towers in 19:22 (10th),then Helen Stansfield in 20:33 (15th) and Penny Thorn in 21:07 (21st)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 (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)! 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.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.