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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y separately published work icon The Briar Book of the Dead London : Titan , 2024 26542181 2024 single work novel fantasy

'Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations. The Briar family of witches run the town of Silverton, caring for its inhabitants with their skills and magic. In the usual scheme of things, they would be burnt for their sorcery, but the church has given them dispensation in return for their protection of the borders of the Darklands, where the much-feared Leech Lords hold sway.

'Ellie is being trained as a steward, administering for the town, and warding off the insistent interest of the church. When her grandmother dies suddenly, Ellie’s cousin Audra rises to the position of Briar Witch, propelling Ellie into her new role. As she navigates fresh challenges, an unexpected new ability to see and speak to the dead leads her to uncover sinister family secrets, stories of burnings, lost grimoires and evil spells. Reeling from one revelation to the next, she seeks answers from the long dead and is forced to decide who to trust, as a devastating plot threatens to destroy everything the Briar witches have sacrificed so much to build.'

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2024 longlisted British Science Fiction Association Awards — Novel
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…'

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2022 winner Shirley Jackson Awards — Novella
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Fantasy Division — Novella
Songs from Dark Annie's Bower 2022 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Gaslight Ghouls : Uneasy Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2022; (p. 352-382)
2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Horror Division — Novella
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