Eugen Bacon's Blog, page 8
September 16, 2021
New story in Other Terrors anthology by Harcourt!
Truly blessed to have a story ‘The Devil Don’t Come with Horns’ in the Other Terrors anthology – about ‘fear of the other’, edited by award-winning editors Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason. Featuring amazing authors including Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Christina Sng, and more. Out in July 2022 by Mariner Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Pre-orders available!
September 2, 2021
Written With Purpose Author Series
Written With Purpose Author Series with
Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell, featuring 10 black writers, including Nalo Hopkinson, and much awesomeness, talking about writing black/queer. My segment is on 2 September, 7pm EDT, which is 3 September, 9am AEST.
August 19, 2021
Two-book deal! Raw Dog Screaming Press
Super pleased to announce a two-book deal with Raw Dog Screaming Press and its imprint Anti-Oedipus Press. Chasing Whispers is a stunning and unique collection of short stories and An Earnest Blackness is a collection of essays on Afrofuturism and black writing . In Chasing Whispers, I sought to write a collection of mostly original stories, transformative black speculative fiction of culture, diversity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and mythology.
RDSP Managing Editor Jennifer Barnes says, “I was just so impressed with these stories. They are not quite like anything I’ve read before, at turns poetic and pragmatic. They’re refreshing and unsettling, heartfelt and mixed up in an undeniably real way.” Read the full announcement.
August 16, 2021
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
So this happened. Couldn’t be in finer company. The first ever Year’s Best African speculative fiction anthology with works from some of the most exciting voices, new and old, published in 2020. Pre-order on Amazon.
July 7, 2021
Saving Shadows. NewCon Press. Out soon!
at the cusp of human and animal what brings you by is something tragic
or a coincidence of strangehood /
(The Ghost of a Graph)
June 3, 2021
New book acquisition – Saving Shadows!
Newly-signed contract with UK Publisher NewCon Press for Saving Shadows, a dark collection of micro fictions and prose poetry on #climatechange, #BlackLivesMatter, and more. Vividly illustrated by Italian artist Elena Betti. Artwork is insane!
May 18, 2021
Seven Questions with F&SF!
[image error] ‘The intelligence and musicality of text in masterful prose takes me where no other writer can reach me.’ Seven Questions with the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Cover reveal! Danged Black Thing
Isn’t she lovely? Cover image by Kara Walker, an African American contemporary painter, silhouettist, filmmaker, professor, who explores race, gender, sexuality, identity…
Danged Black Thing, a literary speculative collection.
2021 Nommo awards longlist – a novel, novella and four stories
So pleased to see the following works make the longlist of the 2021 Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans:
Novel: Claiming T-Mo Novella: Ivory’s Story
Short stories:
‘A Visit in Whitechapel’, published in London Centric ‘Still She Visits’, published in Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction ‘The Road to Woop Woop’ & ‘The One Who Sees’, published in The Road to Woop Woop and Other StoriesCongratulations to all in the longlist!
