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    Writing with Andrew Hook by Eugen Bacon

    By Eugen Bacon Collaboration is trust and respect. Trust that, together, you make a perfect author. I’d finished reading Andrew Hook’s short stories in Frequencies of Existence, Human Maps, The Forest of Dead Children and The Alsiso Project, and was hooked. I didn’t know at the time that he’s a three-time British Fantasy Society award-winner, […] More

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    Eugen Bacon recommends her top 5 Afrofuturistic books

    Anthologies and collections have become instrumental in the proliferating Afrofuturistic writing that heroes black people in stories from Africa and the diaspora, stories whose visibility is increasingly evident in award nominations and reading list recommendations. Newer works continue to highlight the urgency to decolonise language, while deconstructing and reconstructing the written identities of people of […] More

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    Eugen Bacon Recommends Her Top 5 Prose Poetry Books

    We are pleased to welcome Eugen Bacon, whose latest speculative fiction microlit collection, written with Dominique Hecq, Speculate: A Collection of Microlit, just released, to talk about 5 of her top prose poetry books. More about the author, her work, and her blog tour and a giveaway at the end of this article. Prose poetry […] More

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    NB Magazine: Eugen Bacon meets Linda Hepworth

    In this lush interplanetary tale, Novic is an immortal Sayneth priest who flouts the conventions of a matriarchal society by choosing a name for his child. This act initiates chaos that splits the boy in two, unleashing a Jekyll-and-Hyde child upon the universe. Named T-Mo by his mother and Odysseus by his father, the story …