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Angela Slatter



aka A G Slatter

Specialising in dark fantasy and horror, Angela Slatter is the author of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and Black-Winged Angels, as well as Midnight and Moonshine and The Female Factory (both with Lisa L. Hannett). She has won five Aurealis Awards, one British Fantasy Award, and a World Fantasy Award, as well as being a finalist for the Norma K. Hemming Award.

Angelas short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror (Stephen Jones, ed.), The Years Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (Paula Guran, ed.), The Best Horror of the Year (Ellen Datlow, ed.), The Years Best Australian Fantasy and Horror (Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, eds.), and The Years Best YA Speculative Fiction (Alisa Krasnostein and Julia Rios, eds.).

She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships.

Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) will be released in October 2015.

Angelas urban fantasy novel, Vigil (based on the short story Brisneyland by Night), will be released by Jo Fletcher Books in 2016, and the sequel, Corpselight, in 2017. She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land.
 

Awards: Jackson (2022), WFA (2015), BFA (2012)  see all

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Horror
 
Series
Verity Fassbinder
   1. Vigil (2016)
   2. Corpselight (2017)
   3. Restoration (2018)
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Novels
   Finnegan's Field (2016)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Burning Circuis (2015)
   Home and Heath (2015)
   Of Sorrow and Such (2015)
   Flight (2021)
   The Bone Lantern (2022)
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Anthologies edited
   Dead Red Heart (2011) (with Russell B Farr)
   Canterbury 2100: pilgrimages in a new world (2013) (with Dirk Flinthart)
   Sprawl (2014) (with Alisa Krasnostein)
   Focus 2014 (2015) (with Tehani Wessely)
   Cthulhu's Daughters (2016) (with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R Stiles)
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Series contributed to
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Books containing stories by Angela Slatter
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 15 (2024)
(Best Horror of the Year, book 15)
edited by
Ellen Datlow
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The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Four (2023)
(Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, book 4)
edited by
Paula Guran

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Awards
2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella : The Bone Lantern
2016 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette : Of Sorrow and Such
2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : The Bitterwood Bible
2014 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story : Home and Hearth
2014 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story : St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls
2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : The Coffin-Maker's Daughter
2011 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work : Sprawl

Award nominations
2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Tallow-Wife: and Other Tales
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella (nominee) : Songs from Dark Annie's Bower
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella (nominee) : The Bone Lantern
2021 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : We All Hear Stories in the Dark
2021 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : We All Hear Stories in the Dark
2018 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Corpselight
2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Vigil
2017 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : Finnegan's Field
2017 Ditmar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Vigil
2017 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella (nominee) : No Good Deed
2017 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Little Mermaid, in Passing
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : The Red Forest
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella (nominee) : Finnegan's Field
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Vigil
2015 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Bitterwood Bible
2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls
2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella or Novelette (nominee) : The Female Factory
2015 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella (nominee) : Ripper
2015 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella (nominee) : Of Sorrow and Such
2014 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Badger Bride
2013 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work (nominee) : Midnight and Moonshine
2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Sourdough and Other Stories
2011 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The February Dragon
2011 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story (nominee) : The Coffin-Maker's Daughter
2010 Ditmar Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : The Piece of Ice in Ms Windermere's Heart
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : Sister, Sister
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The February Dragon
2009 Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work (nominee) : Canterbury 2100: pilgrimages in a new world
2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : Words
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : Dresses, Three
2007 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story (nominee) : The Angel Wood


Angela Slatter recommends
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Horror Movie (2024)
Paul Tremblay
"Sometimes things are lost for a reason, but Tremblay reminds us of our innate, irresistible urge to look even when we're likely to be turned into a pillar of salt. A meditation on horror, personal demons and how easily they erupt into everyday life, Horror Movie is a Pandora's box of a book."
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The Haunting of Velkwood (2024)
Gwendolyn Kiste
"Heartbreaking and hopeful. A perfect modern ghost story."
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After the Forest (2023)
Kell Woods
"With one foot in history, the other in folklore, After the Forest is a love song to fairy tales. Replete with secrets, magic, witches and wolves, bears and whispering books, Greta's world is one where enchantment can become a curse on the turn of a tongue. At once sweet as gingerbread and bitterly dark as heart's blood, After the Forest is reminiscent of Juliet Marillier at her finest."

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