Eugen Bacon's Blog, page 11
May 21, 2020
Cover reveal! Hadithi & The State of Black Speculative Fiction
It’s been quite a roll, I’m stoked. Here’s the new cover of my hybrid collaboration with Milton Davis.
May 13, 2020
Truly, madly, deeply. So in love!April 29, 2020
Claiming T-Mo – Longlisted in Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans
So pleased to see Claiming T-Mo nominated in the Longlist for the Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African!
Speculate – microlit cover reveal!
From what began as a dialog between two adventurous writers curious about the shape-shifter called a prose poem comes a stunning collection that is a disruption of language—a provocation. Speculate is a hybrid of speculative poetry and flash fiction, thrumming in a pulse of jouissance and intensity that chases the impossible.
April 16, 2020
March 26, 2020
New book with Milton Davis – joining the Luna family!
Stoked to join the Luna family with a new book this 2020! Hadithi [n. fable, story] is a new hybrid that features seven short stories – three original – of ancestry, soul, continuity, discontinuity as well as steampunk, cyberfunk and a dieselfunk superhero story set in the ’20s, together with a scholarly dialogue on the global state of black speculative fiction. Find out more…
February 19, 2020
Talking Writing: Africa
The first Talking Writing event of 2020!
Talking Writing: Africa will include readings and discussion about Africa and its relationship and influence on writers across the diaspora as a place and culture. We’ll discuss notions of Bla(c)kness in Australia and the diverse, complex experiences of African migrants and Afro descendant peoples. Curated and chaired by actor, writer and activist Moreblessing Maturure, with Tyree Barnette, Kaiya Aboagye and Eugen Bacon.
February 6, 2020
Becoming visible: black speculative fiction (Macmillan)
The new expl
osion of black speculative fiction marks a significant social and political paradigm shift.
January 19, 2020
NB Magazine: Claiming T-Mo makes Linda Hepworth’s Books of the Year
“Although it’s always good to take time to reflect on any reading year, when asked to select ten books as my favourites I always find myself becoming increasingly indecisive about which ones I’m going to choose! However, as 2019 was a year which provided me with so many 5* reads…
Claiming T-Mo by Eugen Bacon: Although there are elements of fantasy, science fiction, magic, hybrid characters, interplanetary travel and shape-shifting characters in this enthralling story, for me it was its thought-provoking complexity and its essential humanity which made it so much more than the sum of these labels. ”
Read the full article: Linda Hepworth’s Books of the Year 2019.
Australian authors raise $486,600, and counting, for firies
It was humbling, heartbreaking and inspiring to see over 500 authors in Australia raise the gauntlet in a staggering auction of books, art and writerly services to raise funds for bushfires and to support wildlife. Twitter went wild on #AuthorsForFiries. The cause has, at the time of this writing, raised AUD 486,600 and counting. My auction raised $655 for the CFA (Country Fire Authority) towards this worthy cause. A big thank you to all bidders, likers and retweeters!
