The University of Tasmania invites you to join Dr Angela Slatter, the 2025 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, for a lecture, an interview with Dr Danielle Wood and a Q&A session with the audience.

Writing While the World Burns will present a reflection on Dr Slatter’s residency, her career to date, and why it’s worthwhile writing in terrible times.

Dr Angela Slatter is the 2025 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence. She 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. 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). Her contemporary horror novella, The Cold House, will be published in October 2025.