Author: Eugen Bacon

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in other awards, including the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick Award, as well as the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen was announced in the honor list of the Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.

  • For Writers: Writing the Novel – For Short Story Authors

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    So you’re a short story writer. You’re happy with your craft, and you already know what a short story is: It’s not a novella (generally up to 40,000 words) or a novelette (typically over 7,500 words – 19,000 words). Awards make it all the more mind-boggling when guidelines start talking about “long story” (over 15,000…

    Eugen Bacon

  • FOR WRITERS: Collaborating with Others

    I once hosted a writing date, where a bunch of authors came together at a set time to (individually) write. The experience reminded me how private I am. Everyone else had eyes glued to their screen, fingers on the keyboard silently tic tic tac tac tictictactactoc! Others furiously scrawled ideas as the muse whispered spur. I…

    Eugen Bacon

  • FOR WRITERS: Speculative Poetry Is Alive!

    The abstraction and aesthetics of poetry increasingly allow writers to infuse poetic text in their prose, sometimes in prose poetic form or as epigraphs in stories, novels, and novellas to enhance the rhythm, impact, and poeticity of the text.

    Eugen Bacon

  • FOR WRITERS: Writing Down Under

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    Australian writer Eugen Bacon shares tips for finding success when you’re geographically separated from the heart of the publishing world.

    Eugen Bacon

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