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 editor-in-chief of a pretty cool litmag once. He’s Irish, and in 2025, after a decade in North America, he returned to Dublin.