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Angela Slatter

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born

Australia

gender

female

website

http://angelaslatter.com/

genre

Fairy Tales, Speculative Fiction

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Angela Slatter is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction (that’s in Australia, by the way). Over the years she’s done many things in order to avoid being a writer, including administering an MBA program and studying law – it’s hard to say which was worse. But now she’s given all that up and embraced the writerly and all it entails (poverty, depression, rejection, talking to herself, living on two-minute noodles and generally being an inveterate liar).

For some reason, she has a Masters (Research) in Creative Writing, which produced Black-Winged Angels, a short story collection of reloaded fairytales. In order to further avoid reality, she is now studying (very slowly) for a PhD in Creative Writing. During her daylight hours, she work...more Angela Slatter is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction (that’s in Australia, by the way). Over the years she’s done many things in order to avoid being a writer, including administering an MBA program and studying law – it’s hard to say which was worse. But now she’s given all that up and embraced the writerly and all it entails (poverty, depression, rejection, talking to herself, living on two-minute noodles and generally being an inveterate liar).

For some reason, she has a Masters (Research) in Creative Writing, which produced Black-Winged Angels, a short story collection of reloaded fairytales. In order to further avoid reality, she is now studying (very slowly) for a PhD in Creative Writing. During her daylight hours, she works at a writers’ centre. She has been known to occasionally teach creative writing at Queensland University of Technology. At night, she stalks the darker recesses of her (and other people’s) minds, flensing knives in hand. Except, you know, when she’s not.

Her short stories have appeared in anthologies such as Jack Dann’s Dreaming Again, Tartarus Press’ Strange Tales II, Twelfth Planet Press’ 2012, Dirk Flinthart’s Canterbury 2100, and in journals such as Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Shimmer, ONSPEC and Doorways Magazine. Her work has had several Honourable Mentions in the Datlow, Link, Grant Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies #20 and #21; and three of her stories have been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards in the Best Fantasy Short Story category.

She is working on various short stories and two novels at the moment. Novel the First: an historical fantasy set in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Novel the Second: Finbar’s Mother, a mix of Irish and Norse mythology. She is also working on ways to find more time to write and is trying to stop referring to herself in the third person because it’s just weird. She is also a graduate of Clarion South 2009 http://www.clarionsouth.org/ and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006 http://www.tinhouse.com/workshop/inde.... In 2010, she will have two short story collections published, Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications). This makes her happy.(less)

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Angela Slatter's Blog

Angela Slatter isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but she does have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from her feed.

In which North Yorkshire refuses to feed us

And so, after arriving at an expensive B&B which was not prepared for us (more of that tomorrow), we set off at 6.00 to try and find dinner. We do not smell bad, we look normal’ish and we have money.

The Italian restaurant in a nearby village, which had 8 free and empty tables, could not possibly fit us in until
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Books by Angela Slatter

Average rating: 4.18 · 174 ratings · 49 reviews · 13 distinct works

	The Girl with No Hands 4.23 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sourdough and Other Stories 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Black-Winged Angels 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Dreaming Again: Thirty-five New Stories Celebrating the Wild Side of Australian Fiction by Jack Dann (Goodreads Author) (editor), Garth Nix (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Richard Harland (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 by Stephen Jones (Editor), Richard L. Tierney (Contributor), Karina Sumner-Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sprawl by Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor), Liz Argall (Goodreads Author), Pete Kempshall 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dead Red Heart by Russell B. Farr, Joanne Anderton, Raymond Gates 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	New Ceres Nights by Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tehani Wessely (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tansy Rayner Roberts (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Scary Kisses by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nicole R. Murphy (Goodreads Author), Astrid Cooper 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Damnation and Dames by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (editor), Amanda Pillar (Goodreads Author) (editor), Lisa L. Hannett (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	My rating: