Photo by Leah Desborough 2020

Angela “A.G.” Slatter is a multi-award-winning author of novels, novellas and short stories, as well as a graphic novel collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds, set in the Hellboy Universe. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, French, Turkish, Czechoslovakian and Romanian. She is represented by Becky LeJeune of The Bond Literary Agency (becky@bondliteraryagency.com).

Her most recent novels, set in the Sourdough Universe, are currently published by Titan:  All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead, The Crimson Road and the forthcoming A Forest Darkly (2026). A contemporary horror novella, The Cold House, will be published in October 2025.

Purchase A.G. Slatter books at the following sites:

US & Canada
 UK Australia
Amazon.com Amazon Amazon Australia
Barnes and Noble Waterstones Pulp Fiction Booksellers
Indigo Bookshop.org Dymocks
Books A Million Forbidden Planet QBD
Books@Stones
Kinokuniya
Galaxy – Abbey’s
Stefen’s Books
Avid Reader

Awards

  • 2024 Ignotus Award Cuento extranjero (Foreign Short Story): “Widows’ Walk”.
  • 2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella: The Bone Lantern.
  • 2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns.
  • 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel: The Path of Thorns.
  • 2021 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories.
  • 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories.
  • 2017 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: Corpselight.
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: A Feast of Sorrows: Stories.
  • 2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
  • 2014 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.
  • 2014 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa L. Hannett.
  • 2014 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “Home and Hearth”.
  • 2014 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”.
  • 2012 British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story: “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”.
  • 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales.
  • 2010 Aurealis Award Best Fantasy Short Story: “The February Dragon”, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.

Short and long listings

  • 2024 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel: The Briar Book of the Dead
  • 2024 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: The Briar Book of the Dead
  • 2024 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: “Bell, Book and Lamp”
  • 2023 Ignotus Award for Best Foreign Novella (Novela corta extranjera): Of Sorrow and Such (De conjuros y otras penas)
  • 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel: The Path of Thorns
  • 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales.
  • 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: The Bone Lantern.
  • 2022 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: “Song from Dark Annie’s Bower.
  • 2022 Australian Shadows Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns.
  • 2022 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel: The Path of Thorns
  • 2022 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel: All the Murmuring Bones
  • 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
  • 2022 Locus Award for Non-Fiction: You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice
  • 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
  • 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel: All the Murmuring Bones
  • 2021 Australian Shadows Award for Best Collected Work:The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales
  • 2021 Queensland Literary Awards Best Book of the Year: All the Murmuring Bones
  • 2018 Nominated for the Dublin Literary Award: Vigil
  • 2018 Locus Award for Best Novel: Corpselight
  • 2018 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: “No Good Deed”
  • 2018 Aurealis Award Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Little Mermaid, in Passing”
  • 2017 Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award: Vigil.
  • 2017 Locus Award for Best First Novel: Vigil.
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: Finnegan’s Field
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Collection:A Feast of Sorrows: Stories
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “The Red Forest”
  • 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel:Vigil
  • 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novella: Ripper
  • 2015 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
  • 2015 Ditmar Award for Best Novella: Of Sorrow and Such
  • 2014 Norma K. Hemming Award: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa Hannett. Honourable mention.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Black-Winged Angels.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: The Female Factory, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Story: “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Badger Bride”.
  • 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story: “Home and Hearth”.
  • 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Midnight and Moonshine, co-authored with Lisa Hannett.
  • 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: Sourdough and Other Stories.
  • 2011 Australian Shadows Award for Long Fiction: The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales.
  • 2011 Australian Shadows Award for Short Fiction: “Brisneyland by Night”.
  • 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection: Sourdough and Other Stories.
  • 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Sister, Sister”.
  • 2009 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Words”.
  • 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “Dresses, three”.
  • 2007 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story: “The Angel Wood”.