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African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · Apr 15
#NebulaAwards. Beyond words and overwhelmed with gratitude! 🙏🏾💕@sfwa.bsky.social
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2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award: Eugen Bacon - Nebula Awards Conference Online
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association is pleased to announce that the 2025 Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award will be presented to Eugen Bacon at the 60th Annual SFWA Nebula Awards® ceremony on...
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The Sauúti Collective @sauutiverse.bsky.social · 1d
BOOK MAIL! 📦📚🚀💫

Sauúti Terrors is on its way. 💃🏾 @genni.bsky.social in Australia, one of the anthology's three editors, opens her book mail from Flame Tree Publishing

Eds. Cheryl S. Ntumy Eugen Bacon @stephenembleton.bsky.social

Preorder Now: Out 20 January 2026
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.org · 3d
Join panelists @genni.bsky.social, @scottedelman.bsky.social, @cjtavares.bsky.social, and @vriccithode.bsky.social for our Quasar conversation on centering wellness as creators, and don't miss @jenniferhudak.bsky.social's generous SFF-themed chair-yoga and meditation sessions, too!
Centering Wellness as Creators 5pm PST November 15 Free for Nebula attendees $50 for new guests events.sfwa.org Eugen Bacon is a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for her novel Serengotti. She received SFWA's Solstice Award for the 60th Nebulas. Outpost Yoga Chair-based stretching with Jennifer Hudak 3pm PST November 15 Meditation Station (Wellness Activity) 2pm PST November 16 Jennifer Hudak is a speculative fiction writer fueled mostly by tea. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in venues such as The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Strange Horizons, The Sunday Morning, and more.
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 4d
🤩 congrats! 🎉
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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, ta) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 4d
This arrived before Halloween, but I wanted to share it with you on publication day. Sinophagia, Italian ed. is out today! It's beautiful, gorgeous design, amazing quality, quotes from @genni.bsky.social and @gabino.bsky.social on the back. Thank you ADD Editore! #books youtube.com/shorts/XSzQe...
Sinophagia Italian Edition unboxing
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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 5d
We are just over a week away from @sfwa.org's Quasar! 🎉

I'll be there alongside @genni.bsky.social, @scottedelman.bsky.social, and @vriccithode.bsky.social on Saturday Nov 15th, 5 PM PST on the Centering Wellness as Creators panel.

Hope to see you there!
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Promotional graphic for SFWA's Quasar event panel Centering Wellness as Creators, 5PM PST on Nov 15th. Free for Nebula attendees, $50 for new guests, register at events.sfwa.org. This graphic shows the profile pics for the panelists (including Eugen Bacon, Scott Edelman, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, and Catherine Tavares) above a blue and purple starry cloudy sky.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you to Alex Brown for including Countess on this list. It's especially wonderful to be on it with @brentclambert.bsky.social and @ebonidunbar.bsky.social who I 🖤

I knew I took risks when I wrote Countess. But my goal as an artist is to be bold. Its heartening to see that appreciated. 🔥✊
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
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Verified Accounts @verifiedusers.bsky.social · 6d
🛡️ @genni.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.team Track verified accounts and trusted verifiers at bverified.vercel.app!
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bskycheck.com @bskycheck.com · 6d
Congrats on your new blue check 🎉
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 6d
Stoked about this @librarything.com #author #interview! 🙏🏾💞 @meerkatpress.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @sauutiverse.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
librarything.com LibraryThing @librarything.com · 6d
LibraryThing sat down this month with author Eugen Bacon / @genni.bsky.social in order to discuss two of her new science fiction novellas—"Novic, a standalone prequel to "Claiming T-Mo," and "The Nga’phandileh Whisperer," a novella in The Sauútiverse—that came out this past September. #💙📚 #Booksky
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 10d
And the winner is Flame Tree Press
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 11d
'Memories of the Old Sun', beautifully packaged at Mirari Press. 💞 #afrocentric #afrofuturism #speculativefictiin
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Memories of the Old Sun | Eugen Bacon | Mirari Press
Mirari Revel stories are short, queer, speculative fiction stories meant to be read in one sitting. Mazu designs biorobots – living instruments built to measure the world's weather and never question...
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 12d
"It was one of the many fossil houses of dry bones and cured scales that served generations, and still stood in clusters in Old Dodoma, a land of dryness that was once an ocean." 🦴🐟

New ECO24 excerpt by @genni.bsky.social: "The Water Runner"

Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...
"Excerpt from ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION — "The Water Runner" by Eugen Bacon. Apex Magazine, Issue 151." Cover of "ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction. Edited by Marissa van Uden"
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 12d
Huge congratulations to ed @genni.bsky.social and all the contributors published in “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” which won the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction.

Find it here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/afrocente...
Purple textured background with the heading “Meet The 2025 Ignyte Award Winners” on a blue banner. At the center is the cover of the book “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction” edited by Eugen Bacon. The main text explains what the outstanding novella award is about, lists the winner and contributors for the category, their nationalities and publisher. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. A promotional graphic set in a purple background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “For More Info, Go To:” The #2025Ignyte Awards logo appears in the center over an illustration of a person surrounded by flames with a website link just above it. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and its website link is placed at the bottom.
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Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social · 13d
Explore a mesmerizing sound magic universe in our #scifi #horror recent release by award-winning author @genni.bsky.social: The Nga'phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella. Eugen has provided a title pronunciation clip as well: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-ng...
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The Nga’phandileh Whisperer – Stars and Sabers
The Nga'phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella is a science fiction horror novella from award-winning author Eugen Bacon.
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 16d
An insightful chat with Black Beacon Books. 💞 @camerontrost.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social
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A Chat with Eugen Bacon
You've read our recent interviews with contributors to  Samhain Screams  and  Steampunk Sleuths , but every now and then, we like to catch u...
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Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 18d
⚡Check this out at Nora B. Peevy's Substack: Guest Post with Eugen Bacon, Author of Novic: "When Life Chucks at You Lemons ...Make one hell of a lemon drop martini." �‹🍸 https://smpl.is/adqkl @Eugen Bacon
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 20d
#book news! @flametree.bsky.social, @simonschuster.bsky.social, @sauutiverse.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social
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Flame Tree acquires new Bacon anthology | Books+Publishing
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 25d
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Eugen Bacon, Wole Talabi, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Other African Writers Shine at 2025 Ignyte Award - JAY Lit
Winners of the 2025 Ignyte Awards have been announced, recognizing outstanding contributions in speculative fiction. Several Africa writers were among those celebrated across major categories and they...
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Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 27d
#Novic by Eugen Bacon is on sale now and the perfect introduction to the Outbreeds world which includes Novic & Claiming T-Mo. Don't miss it!

https://smpl.is/adela

#afrofutures #darkspeculativefiction #EugenBacon #Outbreeds @Eugen Bacon
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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 27d
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!

🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · 29d
Big up, Sis!
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Meerkat Press @meerkatpress.bsky.social · 29d
#ICYMI Melissa A Watkins reviews Eugen Bacon's NOVIC at Lightspeed Magazine! (on Sep 16)!

"A unique and oddly touching novelette..."

https://smpl.is/ac7nm

book page: https://smpl.is/adbdx

@Eugen Bacon @Lightspeed Magazine

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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · Oct 12
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Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social · Oct 12
Wait. What! OMG! 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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theignyteawards.bsky.social The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon
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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · Oct 12
Congratulations @genni.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION
2025 Winner Outstanding Creative Nonfiction for AFRO-CENTERED FUTURISMS IN OUR SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Eugen Bacon
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