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Phil Olsen is a writer from Liverpool who specialises in short stories, flash fiction and radio plays.

He won the Northern Short Story Festival Flash Fiction Slam in 2017, Writing on the Wall’s WoWFest 2016 Flash Fiction competition, and the Book Week Scotland 2014 Flash Fiction competition.

“I chose ‘Red Eye Reduction’ to be the overall winner because the story managed to combine so many elements with apparently so little effort. Structuring the narrative around the entirely visualisable but oddly abstract activity which is computer picture editing, the writer was able to handle characterisation while pulling in the other thematic strands with humour and panache.”

Helen Lynch, Book Week Scotland 2014 competition judge, author and lecturer at University of Aberdeen.