Eugen Bacon Eugen Bacon i(8006428 works by) (a.k.a. Eugen M. Bacon)
Also writes as: Ivory Snow
Gender: Female
Heritage: African
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BiographyHistory

Eugen Bacon earned a Master of Arts (MA), Writing at Swinburne University of Technology.

In 2018, it was announced that Atlanta-based Meerkat Press would publish Bacon's novel, then titled A Woman's Choice (a 'speculative fiction novel with elements of fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism', according to the publisher's website), in 2019. The novel was subsequently published as Claiming T-Mo, and followed by collections of short stories and the Afrofuturist novel Mage of Fools.

In 2022, her collection A Place between Waking and Forgetting was announced for publication with Raw Dog Screaming Press in 2024.

In May 2024, she was announced as the 2024 University of Tasmania Hedburg Writer-in-Residence, a three-month Hobart-based residency.

Exhibitions

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Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 recipient Hedberg Writer in Residence
2022 recipient The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund for travel to Wagga Wagga to research her novel Serengotti (Transit Lounge)
2022 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — William Atheling Jr Award for Aurealis Reviews (editor and reviews).
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Awards for Works

The Mystery of A Place Between Waking and Forgetting 2024 single work short story
— Appears in: A Place Between Waking and Forgetting 2024;
2024 longlisted British Science Fiction Association Awards — Short Fiction
y separately published work icon A Place Between Waking and Forgetting Maryland : Raw Dog Screaming Press , 2024 29500286 2024 selected work short story

'A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.

'Featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist story "The Devil Don't Come With Horns," this collection of short stories is the latest offering by a genre-bending, multi-award winner.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2024 British Science Fiction Association Awards — Collection
The Writer as an Agent of Change 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , 20 December vol. 24 no. 1 2024; 'I write to answer incipient questions that trouble my mind. I write to relieve some form of anxiety, the question of anxiety being an unanswerable question, since the object cause of anxiety, the shadow of it, cannot be symbolised. I write because I must do so, exhilarating, detestable, painful though this act or impulse might be. I write because it is my joy, the paradoxical satisfaction that I derive from my symptom and the excesses of an enjoyment that is closer to pain than pleasure. My reasons for writing echo the words of Dominique Hecq, a scholar, a friend, a mentor—in her article “Writing the Unconscious: Psychoanalysis for the Creative Writer” (Hecq 4), who looked at the potential usefulness of psychoanalysis for the creative writer. These are words that speak to me personally. I think of the writer as an agent of change. As a writer, I have the persistence, the perseverance, the responsibility, the energy and desire as a creative to be an inspiration, in representing diversity, a voice for the voiceless, in connecting through storytelling.' 

(Publication abstract)

2024 longlisted British Science Fiction Association Awards — Short Non-fiction
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