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.
She has received praise from Publishers Weekly for her "evocative and poetic prose" in Sourdough and Other Stories,[10] and her writing garnered similar comments from Jeff VanderMeer, who described it as "brilliant, muscular, and original".
Particular standouts are ... Angela Slatter's haunting The Jacaranda Wife, set in colonial Australia, seems to build towards a climax truly sinister, yet instead leaves you with beautiful imagery that is as otherworldly as it is strangely touching.
"[21][22][23] Similarly, Scoop Magazine described her collaborative story, "The February Dragon" (with Lisa L Hannett) as being a "highlight" of Scary Kisses.
[24] Kim Wilkins has cited Slatter as a SF author of note in a forthcoming chapter in the Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing.
[26] In May 2011, Slatter was the winner of 2010 Aurealis Award for Best Collection with The Girl with No Hands and Other Taes and Best Fantasy Short Story for "The February Dragon, co-written with L.L.