Eugen Bacon is an African-Australian computer scientist and author of
speculative fiction.
She has been nominated for national and international awards, including th
World Fantasy Award British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Award,
,
Australian Shadows Awards
The Australian Shadows Awards are annual literary awards established by the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) in 2005 to honour the best published works of horror fiction written or edited by an Australian/New Zealand/Oceania resident ...
,
Ditmar Award
The Ditmar Award (formally the Australian SF ("Ditmar") Award; formerly the "Australian Science Fiction Achievement Award") has been awarded annually since 1969 at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention (the "Natcon") to recognise a ...
s
and
Nommo Award
The Nommo Award is a literary award presented by ''The African Speculative Fiction Society''. The award is named after the Nommo. The awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "science fiction, fantasy, stories of magi ...
for Speculative Fiction by Africans.
She also writes nonfiction. She is a professional editor registered with the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd), and has been a judge in various competitions including the
Aurealis Award
The Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction is an annual literary award for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction. Only Australians are eligible for the award.
History
The Aurealis Award was established in 1995 by ...
s, Norma K Hemming Awards and Australian Shadows Awards.
Early life
She was born Eugen Matoyo in Tanzania, and she speaks English and Swahili.
She lived in the UK before moving to Melbourne, Australia.
Education
Eugen Bacon has a Master of Science with distinction in distributed computer systems from the
University of Greenwich
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, UK.
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.
Writing
She has published short fiction and novels in various genres within the literary
speculative fiction field, including
black speculative fiction and
afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, and philosophy of science and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology. It addresses themes and concerns of the African diaspora through technocultu ...
. She also writes nonfiction including essays, scholarly articles, book chapters and books.
Bibliography
Novels
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Mage of Fools' (2022)
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Novellas
* ''Ivory's Story''. NewCon Press
2021
Short fiction
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Hadithi & the State of Black Speculative Fiction' (2020, with Milton Davis)
*''Black Moon: Graphic Speculative Flash Fiction'' 2020)
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Road to Woop Woop & Other Stories' (2020)
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Danged Black Things' (2021)
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Saving Shadows' (2021)
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Chasing Whispers' (2022)
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;Stories
Anthologies (edited)
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Poetry
* ''Saving Shadows'' (2021)''
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* ''Speculate: A Collection of Microlit'' (2021), with Dominique Hecq
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*''Frame of Reference'' (2021)
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*''Her Bitch Dress'' (2020)
Non-fiction
;Books
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An Earnest Blackness (2022)
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''Writing Speculative Fiction (2019)''
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;Articles
*''‘Crafting Stories within a Story’'' 2013
*''‘Peaches and Lemons – Peter Temple and Michael Ondaatje’'' 2016
*''‘The Writer’'' 2013
*''‘Hang Him When He’s Not There’'' 2016
*''‘Chewing Over the Trials of Unemployment’'' 2011
*''‘Crossing genre’'' - exemplars of literary speculative fiction 2017
*''‘What is AfroSF?’'' 2018
*''‘Writing and Reading Speculative Fiction’'' 2019
*''‘The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction’'' 2020
*''‘Dark Fiction’'' 2020
*''‘Southerly review’'' 2014
*''‘Journaling - a path to exegesis in creative research’'' 2014
*''‘Review of Angela Meyer’s Captives’'' 2015
*''‘Being Marcus’'' 2015
*''‘Push—a prototype of displaced fiction in the YA literature debate: Breaking the circle of silence’'' 2015
*''‘Creative practice - finding the right mentor’'' 2015
*''‘Creative research: Mixing methods in practice-led research to explore a model of stories-within-a-story to build a novel’'' 2017
*''‘Scholarly exegesis as a memoir’'' 2017
*''‘The creation of a toxic utopia in David Coleman’s The Shaming’'' 2019
*''‘I went looking for AfroSF’'' 2020
*''‘Becoming visible: The Rise of Black Speculative Fiction’'' 2020
*''‘Review of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's Birth of a Dream Weaver’'' 2020
*''‘The Benefit of Our Humanity’'' 2020
*''‘The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi’'' 2020
*''‘Afrofuturism: A WorldCon Recap, and Some Thoughts’'' 2020
*''‘The New Seduction of an Old Literary Crime Classic’'' 2020
*''‘Inhabitation-Genni and I’'' 2020
Eugen Bacon: Agents of Change
(Locus Magazine)
Critical studies and reviews of Bacon's work
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;''The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories''
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;''Claiming T-Mo''
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Awards and nominations
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Australian speculative fiction writers
Australian people of Tanzanian descent
Tanzanian emigrants to Australia