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May 24, 2023
Danged Black Thing – pre-order 35% discount now! Ltd offer only
“With poetic prose, an eclectic range of subgenres, and affecting observations on Blackness and womanhood, this collection showcases Bacon at the top of her game.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“Her writing is equal parts fecund earth and fine-cut jewels; her stories juxtapose the scarred and abused with the powerfully magical, the numinous and the deceptively mundane.” —Margo Lanagan
April 28, 2023
New literary agent: Jennie Goloboy – Donald Maass!
I am now represented by Jennie Goloboy of Donald Maass Literary Agency!
February 20, 2023
Serengotti, coming this August!
Sexual, anguished and superstitious, Bacon’s voice is unique. Her African Australian perspective resonates through her characters and weaving, heaving plots. Characters living on the edge, love lost and found, here’s a story of striking honesty. – ANNE MARIA NICHOLSON, journalist and author of Poker Protocol, Pliny’s Warning and Weeping Waters
January 19, 2023
DANGED BLACK THING, Otherwise Honor List!
My collection Danged Black Thing by Transit Lounge Publishing has made the honor list of the 2021 Otherwise Award – one of the biggest globally recognised genre awards.
This little stunner also made Honorable Mention, Foreword Indies Awards, Finalist Aurealis Award, Finalist Australian Shadows Awards, Finalist British Science Fiction Association Awards. This is what the Otherwise judges had to say:
Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
This sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work takes the reader to near-future dystopic states where the body and tech and magic are all intertwined, twisted, and pulled from the earth. Myths are born and undone from the quotidian and later broken down through a candid and unafraid voice. —Ana Hurtado
Congratulations to the joint winners Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki and Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, and the extraordinary list of nine works:
• A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus
• Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
• The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
• Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
• Deep and Darkest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore
• Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
• The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Danged Black Thing has a US release by Apex Book Company this 2023.
December 31, 2022
November 16, 2022
Languages of Water – a cross-lingual hybrid anthology
Languages of Water – cover by John JenningsLanguages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers and translators of poetry, fiction and nonfiction from Tanzania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Bengal and Australia.
In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes’ le plaisir du texte and death of the author, Languages of Water opens with the homing story ‘When the Water Stops’. Cross-cultural creators interpret the story in different forms of itself, offering subversive fiction, poetry, essays, monochrome graphics and sudden fiction, as well as translations of the homing story in English, Swahili, French, Cantonese, Malay, Vietnamese and Bengali.
‘When the Water Stops’ (Locus recommended reading) was first published in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and now resurrects collaboratively in this original cross-lingual hybrid anthology.
Themes transverse climate change, crossing cultures, translation, interpretation, writing the ‘other’, betwixt.
Featuring (in alphabetical order): Aldegunda Matoyo, Alvin Pang, Andrew Hook, Audrey Chin, Cheng Tim Tim, Clara Chow, Clare Rhoden, David Carlin, Dominique Hecq, E. Don Harpe, Erin Latimer, Eugen Bacon, Francesca Rendle-Short, Jill Jones, Kyongmi Park, Nikki Bacon, Nuzo Onoh, Oz Hardwick, Pandora, Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng, Ramya Jirasinghe, Rina Kikuchi, Seb Doubinsky, Stephen Embleton, Sudeep Chatterjee, Tamantha Smith, Zephyr Li. Meet the Creators…
How it started: The concept of this cross-lingual hybrid is birthed from the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange (WrICE). At the heart of WrICE is a simple idea: to give writers of different backgrounds a chance to step outside familiar writing practices and contexts and connect deeply with writers from different cultures and across generations in an immersive residency. The respectful and generative space for reflection, conversation, creative sharing and surprise that WrICE offers affords writers a muse—a precious opportunity to explore possibilities outside comfort zones and borrow something new into own creative practice. It sparks connections and grows a cohesive community of writers that spans boundaries.
In October 2021 WrICE brought together 12 writers and translators of poetry, fiction and nonfiction from Singapore, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan and Australia in a three-week digital residency.
Together with WrICE 2021 fellows, including Singaporean poet, writer, editor and translator Alvin Pang, Southeast Asian writer Audrey Chin, award-winning novelist, memoirist, and essayist Francesca Rendle-Short, Languages of Water offers work by acclaimed authors—award-winning writer of Scottish and English heritage David Carlin; Korean essayist and translator Kyong-mi Park; ‘Queen of African Horror’ Nuzo Onoh; renowned slipstream writer Andrew Hook; widely-published scholar in international journals and anthologies Oz Hardwick; bilingual and award-winning Seb Doubinsky; newly awarded James Currey Fellow for African literature Stephen Embleton; award-winning Belgian poet and translator who writes across genres and tongues Dominique Hecq; and specially invited contributors.
November 3, 2022
Cover reveal! Secondhand Daylight with Andrew Hook!
SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT, a time travel novel collaboration with European slipstream author Andrew Hook, out in October 2023.
October 22, 2022
Acquired! New collection: A Place Between Waking and Forgetting
Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) has announced its acquisition of yet another exciting book deal, my newest dark speculative fiction and Afro-Irreal short story collection, A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, for release in 2024.
RDSP acquisition announcement
September 15, 2022
Chasing Whispers! Recorded Books acquires audio licence
Signed! Thrilled to announce that Recorded Books has acquired CHASING WHISPERS, my Afro-irrealist collection of short stories, for audio. It will soon be available in leading audio channels, including Audible globally.
