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Angela Slatter Angela Slatter i(A82655 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 ;
Gender: Female
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Angela Slatter holds an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. In 2013, she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. She has won a World Fantasy Award (for which she also been a finalist twice), a British Fantasy Award, a Shirley Jackson Award, Ditmar Awards, Aurealis Awards, and Australian Shadows Awards, as well as being a finalist for awards including the Norma K. Hemming Award and the Locus Awards.

After publishing a number of short-story collections and the 'mosaic novels' of the Sourdough world (Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and The Tallow-wife and Other Tales), she published the three novels in the Verity Fassbinder series, set in Brisbane: Vigil, Corpselight, and Restoration. She followed this with three novels set in the Sourdough world: All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, and The Briar Book of the Dead.

In December 2023, it was announced that she would publish seven books with Titan Books in the UK, including three novels, three novellas, and a reprint collection of short stories.

Sources include Author's website.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Bone Lantern Harrogate : PS Publishing , 2022 25912939 2022 single work novella horror

'When a strange creature approaches Selke’s campfire, intent on filling its stomach with who knows what (or whom), Selke disarms it with her own meal and the promise of stories, eager to prolong her life while she searches for salvation.

'There follows the tale of Gwynn, a young witch determined to survive the prince’s court and avoid the fate of his many wives; the story of a dital harp, imbued with the magic of its maker to aid in her quest for revenge, and lastly, the tale of Selke’s search for the bone lantern, and through it her salvation…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 winner Shirley Jackson Awards Novella
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novella
y separately published work icon The Path of Thorns London : Titan , 2022 23254949 2022 single work novel fantasy

'Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke. However, she becomes fond of her charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan – and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 winner Australian Shadows Award Novel
2022 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novel
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Horror Division Novel
2022 longlisted British Science Fiction Association Awards Novel
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