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Portrait photograph of Philip Elliott
Portrait photograph of Philip Elliott
Philip Elliott’s fiction features desperate characters on the fringe of society and the systems that swallow them. His first novel won a Crime Writers Canada Award of Excellence and his second was a finalist for a Shamus Award. He was among a handful of screenwriters selected for Get Repped Now ’23. Philip edits for a living. He was once editor-in-chief of an award-winning literary journal. He’s Irish, and in 2025, after a decade in North America, he returned to Dublin.

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