Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is an African-Australian computer scientist and author of speculative fiction.

She has been nominated for national and international awards, including the World Fantasy Award, British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award,[1] Bridport Prize,[2] Australian Shadows Awards,[3] Ditmar Awards,[4] British Fantasy Award,[1] and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans.[5] She also writes nonfiction.[6] She is a professional editor registered with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd),[7] and has been a judge in various competitions including the Aurealis Awards,[8] Norma K Hemming Awards [9] and Australian Shadows Awards.[10]

Early life

She was born Eugen Matoyo in Tanzania,[11][12] and she speaks English and Swahili.[13] She lived in the UK before moving to Melbourne, Australia.[13][14]

Education

Eugen Bacon has a Master of Science with distinction in distributed computer systems from the University of Greenwich, UK.[15] She also holds a Master of Arts in creative writing and a doctorate in writing, both from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. She worked in ICT in a service provider role before becoming a writer.[16]

Writing

She has published short fiction and novels in various genres within the literary speculative fiction field, including black speculative fiction and afrofuturism. She also writes nonfiction including essays, scholarly articles, book chapters and books.[17][18]

Bibliography

Novels
  • Serengotti. Transit Lounge Publishing. 2023.
  • Secondhand Daylight. Cosmic Egg Books. 2023.
  • Mage of Fools (2022)[19]
  • Claiming T-Mo. Meerkat Press. 2019.

Novellas

Short fiction
Collections
Stories[24]
Title Year First published Reprinted/collected Notes
Human Beans 2022 Bacon, Eugen (September 2022). Life Beyond Us. European Astrobiology Institute.
The Devil Don't Come With Horns 2022 Bacon, Eugen (July 2022). Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology. Mariner
Naked Earth 2022 Bacon, Eugen (March 2022). Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures. Twelfth Planet Press
The Failing Name 2021 Bacon, Eugen & Seb Doubinsky (August 2021). "The failing name". Fantasy Magazine. 70.
When the Water Stops 2021 Bacon, Eugen (May 2021). Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
A Visit in Whitechapel 2021 Bacon, Eugen (October 2021), London Centric: Tales of Future London , NewCon Press
Baba Klep 2021 Bacon, Eugen (September 2021), The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction , Jembefola
Unlimited Data 2021 Bacon, Eugen (February 2021), Cyberfunk!, MV Media

Anthologies (edited)

Poetry
  • Saving Shadows (2021)
  • Speculate: A Collection of Microlit (2021), with Dominique Hecq
  • Frame of Reference (2021) [25]
  • Black Moon (2020)
  • Her Bitch Dress (2020)[25]
  • It's Folking Political (2020)[26]

Non-fiction
Books
Articles
  • Crafting Stories within a Story 2013[27]
  • Peaches and Lemons – Peter Temple and Michael Ondaatje 2016[28]
  • The Writer 2013[29]
  • Hang Him When He's Not There 2016[30]
  • Chewing Over the Trials of Unemployment 2011[31]
  • Crossing genre - exemplars of literary speculative fiction 2017[32]
  • What is AfroSF? 2018[33]
  • Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction 2019[34]
  • The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction 2020[35]
  • Dark Fiction 2020[36]
  • Southerly review 2014[37]
  • Journaling - a path to exegesis in creative research 2014[38]
  • Review of Angela Meyer's Captives 2015[39]
  • Being Marcus 2015[40]
  • Push—a prototype of displaced fiction in the YA literature debate: Breaking the circle of silence 2015[41]
  • Creative practice - finding the right mentor 2015[42]
  • Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel 2017[43]
  • Scholarly exegesis as a memoir 2017[44]
  • The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman's The Shaming 2019[45]
  • I went looking for AfroSF 2020[46]
  • Becoming visible: The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction 2020[47]
  • Review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Birth of a Dream Weaver 2020[48]
  • The Benefit of Our Humanity 2020[49]
  • The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi 2020[50]
  • Afrofuturism: A WorldCon Recap, and Some Thoughts 2020[51]
  • The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic 2020[52]
  • Inhabitation-Genni and I 2020 [13]
  • World building in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Luna Press Publishing, 2021)[53]
  • 'Trends in black speculative fiction' (Fafnir)
  • Eugen Bacon: Agents of Change (Locus Magazine)
  • The Westsider: Eugen Bacon on the Power of Storytelling
  • HWA: Black Heritage in Horror - Interview with Eugen Bacon

Critical studies and reviews of Bacon's work
Mage of Fools
Danged Black Thing
The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories
  • Midalia, Susan (January–February 2021). "Playing with genre : an inventive collection". Australian Book Review. 428: 45.
  • Publishers Weekly (2021). "The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories". Publishers Weekly.
Claiming T-Mo

Awards and nominations
YearOrganisationCategoryWorkResultReference
2023 Otherwise Award Otherwise Award Danged Black Thing Honor List
2023 British Fantasy Awards Non-Fiction An Earnest Blackness Winner
2023 Foreword Indies Awards Science Fiction Mage of Fools Winner - Silver
2023 Foreword Indies Awards Short Story Chasing Whispers Finalist
2023 World Fantasy Award Short Story 'The Devil Don't Come With Horns' Finalist
2023 Locus Award Non-Fiction An Earnest Blackness Finalist
2023 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Novel Mage of Fools Longlist
2023 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Non-fiction An Earnest Blackness Longlist
2023 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Artwork Mage of Fools Longlist
2023 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Artwork Chasing Whispers Longlist
2022 World Fantasy Award Short Story 'The Failing Name' Finalist
2022 Otherwise Award Otherwise Fellowships N/A Honor list
2022 Aurealis Award Aurealis Awards Danged Black Thing Finalist
2022 Foreword Indies Awards Best Collection Danged Black Thing Honorable Mention
2022 Australian Horror Writers Association Australian Shadows Awards: Collected Works Danged Black Thing Finalist
2022 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Artwork (Peter Lo/Kara Walker) Danged Black Thing Short-Listed
2022 Rhysling Award Short Poem 'Tons of Liquid Oxygen Buckle Too Late Under Strain' in Saving Shadows Nominee
2022 Elgin Awards Full-length Books Saving Shadows Nominee
2022 British Science Fiction Association Awards Best Artwork (Elena Betti) Saving Shadows Short-Listed
2022 British Science Fiction Association Awards Short Story The Failing Name Long-Listed
2022 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading Novels - Science Fiction Mage of Fools 2022 Recommended Reading List
2022 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading Collection Chasing Whispers 2022 Recommended Reading List
2022 Locus Magazine Recommended Reading Non-fiction An Earnest Blackness 2022 Recommended Reading List
2021African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – NovellaIvory's StoryLong-Listed[54]
2021Australian Horror Writers AssociationAustralian Shadows Awards: Edited worksHadithi & The State of Black Speculative FictionFinalist
2021African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – Short Story'The Road to Woop Woop'
'A Visit in Whitechapel'
'Still She Visits'
'The One Who Sees' 		Long-Listed[54]
2020Foreword Indies AwardsShort StoryThe Road to Woop Woop & Other StoriesFinalist[55]
2020British Science Fiction Association AwardsNovellaIvory's StoryShort-Listed[1]
2020Locus MagazineRecommended Reading CollectionThe Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories2020 Recommended Reading List[56]
2020Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Writers Centre Residency ProgrammeEmerging Writer-in-ResidenceN/AAwarded[57]
2020African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – NovelClaiming T-MoLong-Listed[5]
2020African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – Short StoryA PiningLong-Listed[5]
2020African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – Short StoryThe Day Chivalry DiedLong-Listed[5]
2020African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS)Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans – Short StoryA Good BallLong-Listed[5]
2019Australasian Horror Writers AssociationThe Rocky Wood Award for Non-Fiction and CriticismChapter 8 of Writing Speculative FictionFinalist[3]
2019Australian Science Fiction FoundationDitmar Awards - NovelClaiming T-MoFinalist[4]
2019Australian Science Fiction FoundationDitmar Awards – William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or ReviewWriting Speculative FictionFinalist[4]
2018 Bridport Prize Short Story A Pining Shortlisted
2017Copyright AgencyBest proseHoney Gone SourWinner[58]
2017 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest Short Story A Case of Seeing Honourable Mention
2016 Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Literary Awards Microfiction Award Mahuika Highly Commended
2016 Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Literary Awards Angelo B. Natoli Short Story Award Jungolo Commended
2016 Alan Marshall Short Story Award Short Story Swimming with Daddy Shortlisted
2014 Lightship International Short Story Prize Short Story A Puzzle Piece Shortlisted
2013 Fish Short Story Prize Short Story Unusual Suspects Longlisted
2012 Lightship International Short Story Prize Short Story Rozaria's Memories Longlisted
2006 Pushcart Prize Short Story The Hybrid Nominated
2005 Tarralla Writers Group Short Story The Boy in the Gleam Shortlisted
2004 Writers Bureau Short Story Prize Short Story Morning Dew Awarded

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  2. "Eugen Bacon – Australian Short Story Festival Inc". australianshortstoryfestival.com.
  3. "Past Winners". 13 December 2017.
  4. "sfadb: Ditmar Awards 2020". www.sfadb.com.
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  6. Hecq, Dominique; Novitz, Julia (2018). Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation. Gylphi. ISBN 9781780240688 – via www.gylphi.co.uk.
  7. "Directory". iped.memnet.com.au.
  8. "Judges". 27 July 2014.
  9. "About the Jurors". 7 October 2017.
  10. "Australian Shadows Awards". 9 February 2017.
  11. "ASM #80". Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  12. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-bookshelf/the-bookshelf-friday-28-may-2021/133623
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  14. Written With Purpose: Eugen Bacon, retrieved 6 September 2021
  15. "Reviewer Tanisha Rule Interviews Eugen Bacon, Author of The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories". www.forewordreviews.com. 12 February 2021.
  16. "INTERVIEW: Eugen Bacon meets Linda Hepworth". NB. 5 June 2019.
  17. "Introducing Eugen Bacon". WFC2020. 23 July 2020.
  18. "Macmillan Learning UK". Retrieved 15 August 2023.
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  21. Ashton, Kris. "Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction". Andromeda Spaceways Magazine.
  22. "The Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories". Meerkat Press. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  23. "Transit Lounge signs Eugen Bacon's Danged Black Thing". 23 February 2021.
  24. Short stories unless otherwise noted.
  25. "Chapbooks". GINNINDERRA PRESS.
  26. "It's Folking Political | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories". www.austlit.edu.au.
  27. Eugen Bacon. ""Writerly passage: Crafting stories within a story"" (PDF). swinburne.edu.au. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  28. "Peaches and lemons". bukkertillibul.net. 11 June 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  29. "Text". bukkertillibul.net.
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  32. "Aurealis #105 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au.
  33. "Aurealis #111 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au.
  34. "Aurealis #120 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au.
  35. "Aurealis #129 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au.
  36. "Aurealis #133 — Aurealis". aurealis.com.au.
  37. "Review of Brooks & McMahon (eds), Forward Thinking TEXT Vol 18 No 2". www.textjournal.com.au.
  38. "Eugen Bacon TEXT Vol 18 No 2". www.textjournal.com.au.
  39. "Eugen Bacon reviews Captives by Angela Meyer". Mascara Literary Review. 23 September 2015.
  40. Bacon, Eugen (2015). "Being Marcus". New Writing. 12 (3): 349–354. doi:10.1080/14790726.2015.1073743. S2CID 220352192.
  41. Bacon, Eugen (2016). "Push –a prototype of displaced fiction: Breaking the circle of silence (YA Literature)". New Writing. 13: 30–41. doi:10.1080/14790726.2015.1117496. S2CID 146572346.
  42. Bacon, Eugen (2016). "Creative practice – finding the right mentor". New Writing. 13 (2): 180–193. doi:10.1080/14790726.2015.1117495. S2CID 146457559.
  43. Bacon, Eugen (2017). "Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel". New Writing. 14 (2): 235–256. doi:10.1080/14790726.2016.1270969. S2CID 151549182.
  44. Bacon, Eugen (2017). "The scholarly exegesis as a memoir". New Writing. 14 (3): 386–397. doi:10.1080/14790726.2017.1284245. S2CID 171513085.
  45. "The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman's The Shaming | Blog-a-Blog". 7 May 2019.
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  47. The Editors (11 May 2020). "Becoming Visible: The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  48. "Ngugi wa Thiong'o- Birth of a Dream Weaver, reviewed by Eugen Bacon". 17 June 2020.
  49. "The Benefit of Our Humanity". 10 June 2020.
  50. The Editors (19 December 2020). "Review: The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  51. The Editors (4 August 2020). "Afrofuturism: A WorldCon Recap, and Some Thoughts". {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  52. "The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic". 27 August 2020.
  53. Barbini, Francesca T. (1 March 2021). "Call for Papers 2020: Worlds Apart". lunapresspublishing.
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  58. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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