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Phil Olsen

Goodreads Author

Born

in Liverpool, The United Kingdom

November 25

Website

http://polsen.co.uk/

Twitter

Liverpolsen

Genre

Fiction, Contemporary

Influences

George Saunders, Miranda July

Member Since

August 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/liverpolsen

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Phil Olsen is a writer from Liverpool, UK. Specialising in short stories, he has a master's in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.

Winner of three flash fiction competitions (Northern Short Story Festival 2017; Writing on the Wall's WoWFest 2016; Book Week Scotland 2014), he has been shortlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the Storgy Flash Fiction Competition. He was a finalist in the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge in both 2018 and 2019.

Phil's short fiction has been published by (or is forthcoming with) Ad Hoc Fiction, Comma Press, Cōnfingō, Strix, Storgy and The Liminal Residency.

Phil is the Fiction Editor at Sabotage Reviews and a Contributing Editor at Vestal Review.

In 2019 he was comm ...more

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	The Lobsters Run Free: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two by Christina Dalcher (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Samuel Hudson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Phil Olsen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction Festival: One by Jude Higgins (Editor), Diane Simmons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kevlin Henney (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flash Fiction Festival: Two by Jude Higgins (Editor), Diane Simmons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Santino Prinzi (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	STORGY Flash Fiction 2019 by Selma Carvalho (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Luke Kuhns (Contributor), Donna Greenwood (Contributor) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	STRANGE ABRASIONS: Thirteen Untold Horrors by Andy Murray (Editor), Fia Harrington, Susan Earlam (Goodreads Author) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Threads: Short Stories by New Liverpool Writers (Comma Short Story Course Book 2) by Sarah Schofield (Editor), Johanna Robinson (Goodreads Author), Tricia Hagan 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Manchester Anthology 2017: A collection of new writing by Hannah Bressler (Editor), C.S. Vaughan (Editor), Phil Olsen (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Belief to Behavior: The Power of Belief in Business: The Power of Belief in Business 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars