Tag Archives: short stories
Australian Shadows Awards – update
Absolutely delighted to learn that I won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work this evening! The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories got a gong. Thanks so much to PS Publishing for making
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Here at last! The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
So much joy from this morning’s bookmail! The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales is finally here! When I say “finally” I don’t mean the fact it was published last week and is in my hot little paws this week, I mean
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Nightmare Magazine!
Issue 99 of Nightmare Magazine is up!
Or bits of it as it’s a staggered release kind of thing. But all sorts of goodies await, including my horror story “The Wrong Girl”, which is released into the wild on
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Review: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners
Hello, my poor neglected blog.
Here’s a lovely review from Carina Bissett of this year’s collection The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories.
The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners & Other Stories by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing, March 2020)
The Dark Issue 66
I’ve got a reprint story up at The Dark in Issue 66!
“Our Lady of Wicker Bridge” originally appeared in Best British Horror 2: Dark Satanic Mills, Steve J. Shaw (ed.), Black Shuck Books, September 2017.
There were stories about Wicker Bridge Estate,
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Competitions, Crafting Through Critiquing, and the Short Story: Some Notes
Art by Kathleen Jennings
This is another redux article ( I wrote the original version for The Australian Writer’s Marketplace back in the mists of time).
Competitions, Crafting Through Critiquing, and the Short Story
I’m often asked how to win short story writing competitions:
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Winter Children: Paperback and ebook
I’m very happy to announce that Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales – initially released as a 200 copy limited edition hardcover by the wonderful PS Publishing – is going to be a paperback and ebook from the
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Tartarus Press at 30
I’m absolutely delighted to have a story in the new anthology, Strange Tales: Tartarus Press at 30!
The ToC:
Rebecca Lloyd, Mark Valentine, Andrew Michael Hurley, N.A. Sulway, Stephen Volk, Inna Effress, Ibrahim R. Ineke, Eric Stener Carlson, Jonathan Preece, Tom Heaton,
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The Heart Is A Mirror for Sinners has landed!
Or at least one copy has landed in Oz: this one belongs to a friend!
So hopefully others will be arriving soon – including mine!
Very excited to get this glorious thing with Daniele Serra’s artwork!
#theheartisamirrorforsinners
#pspublishing
#angelaslatter
The Dark, May 2020
Or, as I like to think of it, The Creepy Clown issue!
The May 2020 issue of The Dark is out! With stories by myself, Clara Madrigano, Kristi deMeester and Ray Cluley. 
“Sleeping in Metal and
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