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Eugen Bacon
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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
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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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"Graduated Justice: An Amelia Li Mystery" by @mynachang.bsky.social
"Handsomest Gentlest" by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social
"Kinje'kitile and the Jintu" by @genni.bsky.social
"Plague Daughter" by @pippinacious.bsky.social

More to come. I'm going through my HWA emails and just found the SFWA Discord.
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Happy book birthday to ECO24 by @apexmag.bsky.social! Among the wonderful ecofiction of @anovelescape.bsky.social, @jenniferhudak.bsky.social, @genni.bsky.social, and others, it contains my piece "The Plasticity of Being".

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ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction
"A triumph. 23 stellar tales offering creative and varied takes on the book's themes. Every entry is equal parts thought-provoking, insightful, and impactful." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review A must...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Aurealis Magazine Reviews #DarkMatter by Kathe Koja: Lush and queer, a visual display of text and art to the cascading thrum of music. … ~EUGEN BACON

https://smpl.is/aendn

@Kathe Koja @Eugen Bacon @Aurealis Magazine

November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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What a rich whirlwind of an afternoon! We just came out of two fantastic professional sessions, a wellness break, a dynamic office hour, & a workshop.

👀 Were you in Mutual Resilience with us? Centering Wellness? Did you join us for a stretch, or YA?

Quasar is packed with adventure because of YOU.
Mutual Resilience: How SFF Writers Build Community On and Off the Page with BrightFlame, Curtis Chen, and James Stegall Centering Wellness as Creators with Eugen Bacon, Scott Edelman, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, and Catherine Tavares Outpost Yoga Chair-based stretching with Jennifer Hudak Creating Real-World Hope through Speculative YA
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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@sfwa.org Quasar panel today on Centering Wellness as Creators. Recording available. @scottedelman.bsky.social, @cjtavares.bsky.social, @vriccithode.bsky.social 💞
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SFWA Quasar panel, Centering Wellness as Creators
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We presented our interview with author @genni.bsky.social. Come read what she has to say about her new stories and the series to which they belong, as well as the importance of Afrofuturist or Afro-irreal literature as a whole. blog.librarything.com/2025/11/auth...
November 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Happy Book Birthday! One year today! 🍾🥂 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The three first lines of our first three stories 🌿🌍

ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION releases November 18th! Featuring 23 stellar ecofiction tales by some of today's greatest sci-fi/fantasy authors.

Preorder before the 18th for 30% off HERE: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
"In the Field." Shelly Jones. “The professor pulls down a shoebox of cassette tapes from the bookcase.” "The Water Runner." Eugen Bacon. “Their sex gave the whale-bone unit and its thatched roof of albatross wings a sweet musty odor like a ripened durian fruit.” "Ama's Jungle." K-Ming Chang. “We had never seen the color green.” "Don't miss the world's first ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION. Preorders now open!
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Thank you to @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social for featuring @genni.bsky.social and her novella, The Nga'phandileh Whisperer! spacecowboybooks.com/new-book-spo...
#books #scifi #horror
New Book Spotlight – The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon – Space Cowboy Books
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November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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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
November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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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.
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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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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November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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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.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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 · 15d
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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November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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November 6, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Congrats on your new blue check 🎉
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Stoked about this @librarything.com #author #interview! 🙏🏾💞 @meerkatpress.bsky.social @starsandsabers.bsky.social @sauutiverse.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
librarything.com LibraryThing @librarything.com · 16d
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
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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And the winner is Flame Tree Press
November 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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'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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October 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"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"
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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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October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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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October 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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⚡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
October 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#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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October 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM