About

Photo by Leah Desborough 2020

Angela Slatter (also writing as A.G. Slatter) is the author of All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns,The Briar Book of the Dead and the forthcoming The Crimson Road (Titan Books, purchase links below). All are gothic fantasies set in the world of the Sourdough, Bitterwood and Tallow-Wife collections.

Angela has recently signed a seven-book deal with Titan, for three novels set in the world of All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns and The Briar Book of the Dead, and three contemporary folk horror novellas.

Her latest short story collection, The Wrong Girl and Other Tales, was published by Brain Jar Press in October 2023. The hardcover collected edition of her Hellboy Universe collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds, from Dark Horse Comics was published in July 2023.

Angela is also the author of the supernatural crime novels from Jo Fletcher Books/Hachette International: Vigil (2016), Corpselight (2017) and Restoration (2018), as well as ten other short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, and The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories. Vigil was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018. All The Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards Book of the Year in 2021 and for the Shirley Jackson Awards in 2022. The Path of Thorns won the 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel, as well as the Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel. The Bone Lantern won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella.

Angela is represented by Meg Davis of the Ki Agency in London: meg@ki-agency.co.uk

She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, a Shirley Jackson Award, a Spanish Ignotus Award, three Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards. She is also one of the World Fantasy Award judges for 2024 (for works published in 2023).

Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, French, Turkish, Czechoslovakian and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories (“Finnegan’s Field”).

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. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth, and was one of the shortlistees for the 2023 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tasmania. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and the Australia Council for the Arts.

She is also the author of the novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com), Ripper (in Horrorology: The Lexicon of Fear) and The Bone Lantern (PS Publishing).

For interview requests: me@angelaslatter.com

Awards

2024 Ignotus Award Cuento extranjero (Foreign Short Story): “Widows’ Walk”.
2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella: The Bone Lantern.
2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns.
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel: The Path of Thorns.
2021 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories.
2021 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories.
2017 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: Corpselight.
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: A Feast of Sorrows: Stories.
2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.
2014 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa L. Hannett.
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”.
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales.
2010 Aurealis Award Best Fantasy Short Story: “The February Dragon”, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.

Short and long listings

2023 Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novella (Novela corta extranjera): Of Sorrow and Such (De conjuros y otras penas)
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: The Path of Thorns
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales.
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: The Bone Lantern.
2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: “Song from Dark Annie’s Bower.
2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns.
2022 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns
2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel: All the Murmuring Bones
2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
2022 Locus Award for Non-Fiction: You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice
2021 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
2021 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel: All the Murmuring Bones
2021 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work:The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
2021 Queensland Literary Awards Best Book of the Year: All the Murmuring Bones
2018 Nominated for the Dublin Literary Award: Vigil
2018 Locus Award for Best Novel: Corpselight
2018 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: “No Good Deed”
2018 Aurealis Award Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Little Mermaid, in Passing”
2017 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award: Vigil.
2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel: Vigil.
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: Finnegan’s Field
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection:A Feast of Sorrows: Stories
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “The Red Forest”
2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel:Vigil
2015 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: Ripper
2015 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
2014 Norma K. Hemming Award: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa Hannett. Honourable mention.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Black-Winged Angels.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Story: “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Badger Bride”.
2013 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “Home and Hearth”.
2012 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Midnight and Moonshine, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.
2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: Sourdough and Other Stories.
2011 Australian Shadows Award for Long Fiction: The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales.
2011 Australian Shadows Award for Short Fiction: “Brisneyland by Night”.
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Sourdough and Other Stories.
2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Sister, Sister”.
2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Words”.
2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Dresses, three”.
2007 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Angel Wood”.