ABOUT

"Fat Roland is a fiction writer, award-winning blogger and one fifth of the Flashtag writing collective. He was commended in the latest Manchester Fiction Prize for an alternative-reality death scene. He writes regularly under pseudonyms but don't tell anyone. You can scrape more information from the bottom of Fat Roland's barrel by entering his name into the following internet website: www.google.com."
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Awards and stuff

2013: Runner-up, Pereine Press Short Story Month 2012

2012: Commended, Blog North Awards (for Didn'tsbury)

2011: Commended, Manchester Fiction Prize

2010: Blogger of the Year, Manchester Blog Awards (for Fat Roland On Electronica, won jointly with Love Levenshulme)

2010: Best Writing on a Blog, Manchester Blog Awards (for Fat Roland On Electronica)

What people say

"Touching, sharp, original and weird. It is refreshing to see a writer who dares to play with the surreal. Short, simple sentences weave an intriguing landscape made up of dialogue, thoughts, the past and the present." Peirene Press competition judges

"Three flash fiction authors I love: I’m a big fan of Emma Lannie‘s work, and you can read one of her flash fictions Making Oxygen here. Witty performance writer Fat Roland is a great short fiction writer and Jon McGregor‘s short short stories are immense." Nici West, For Books Sake

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