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Author: Phil Olsen

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

What Are You Like by Shelley Day

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— What Are You Like (Postbox Press) is a collection of short stories from author Shelley Day.

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s by Lisa Blower

December 5, 2020December 5, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Sally Shaw— It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s (Myriad Editions, 2019) is a collection of twenty short stories

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

Paris Syndrome by Lucy Sweeney Byrne

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— In her debut collection Paris Syndrome (Banshee Press), author Lucy Sweeny Byrne pierces the glamour bubble

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

To the Volcano, and other stories by Elleke Boehmer

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Mikiko Fukuda— Transnationalism and tourism have allowed people greater freedom of movement—both to travel and emigrate. Elleke Boehmer

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

This Taste for Silence by Amanda O’Callaghan

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Jenny Booth— The stories in Amanda O’Callaghan’s debut short fiction collection, This Taste for Silence (University of Queensland

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Collection Edge Hill Prize Short Stories 

This Way to Departures by Linda Mannheim

December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Phil Olsen

—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— You might have noticed that the world’s been turned on its head. Everyone’s scared, myself included.

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Collection Short Stories 

Jolts by Fernando Sdriggoti

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Phil Olsen Fernando Sdriggoti, Influx Press, Trahearne Falvey

–Reviewed by Trahearne Falvey– A few pages into ‘A Barbecue and an Exhumation in Victoria Park Village’, the centrepiece of

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An Inheritance by Diane Simmons

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 Phil Olsen Diane Simmons, Mikiko Fukuda, V Press, V. Press

–Reviewed by Mikiko Fukuda– Diane Simmons expertly uses flash fiction pieces to capture the complexities one family experiences over four

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Birds with Horse Hearts by Eleanor Walsh

August 13, 2020August 13, 2020 Phil Olsen Ad Hoc Fiction, Cath Barton, Eleanor Walsh

–Reviewed by Cath Barton– In Eleanor Walsh’s story of three women’s push and pull with life, with the men who

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Demise of the Undertaker’s Wife by Anne Walsh Donnelly

August 12, 2020August 12, 2020 Phil Olsen Anne Walsh Donnelly, Sally Shaw, The Blue Nib, The Blue Nib Literary Magazine

–Reviewed by Sally Shaw– Demise of the Undertaker’s Wife (The Blue Nib, 2019) is a collection of twelve short stories

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