Angela Slatter
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| Born | 1967 Australia |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
| Notable works | Sourdough and Other Stories, The Girl With no Hands and Other Tales |
| Notable awards |
Ditmar Award Short Story division 2010 The Piece of Ice in Ms Windermere's Heart Aurealis Award Best Collection 2010 The Girl With No Hands and other tales Best Fantasy Short Story 2010 The February Dragon - co-written with L.L.Hannett British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction 2012 The Coffin Maker's Daughter |
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Angela Slatter is an award-winning writer based in Brisbane, Australia. Primarily working in the field of speculative fiction, she has focused on short stories since deciding to pursue writing in 2005, when she undertook a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing. Since then she has created an extensive portfolio of short stories, many of which were included in her two compilations, Sourdough and Other Stories (2010) and The Girl With No Hands and other tales (2010).
Slatter is graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing. In 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships.
Slatter occasionally teaches creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology.
Angela Slatter's short stories have appeared in anthologies and journals in Australia and internationally. Her work has been listed for Honourable Mention by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link; and she has been nominated three times for the Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story. Along with the Aurealis Awards, Slatter has been nominated for the Ditmar Award on two occasions: as Best New Talent in 2008, and for Best Short Story in 2010.
In 2010, Slatter published two short story collections: Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) which received a Starred Review at Publishers Weekly, and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications). She is currently working on a "duopoly" consisting of the novels Well of Souls and Gate of the Dead.
In 2016, her first solo full-length novel Vigil was released. She is currently working on its sequel Corpselight and the final book in the "Verity Fassbinder" trilogy.
Slatter's works have been well received. She has received praise from Publishers Weekly for her "evocative and poetic prose" in Sourdough & Other Stories, and her writing garnered similar comments from Jeff Vandermeer, who described it as "brilliant, muscular, and original". In particular, Slatter has received critical acclaim for her style of retelling or "reloading" fairytales.
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