Eugen Bacon
Awards Summary
Major Awards: 3
Locus Awards: 1
Other Awards: 1
Total Number of Award Wins and Nominations: 28
— Major Awards —
World Fantasy Awards — for Fantasy works; juried, with nominations from World Fantasy Con members
(2 nominations)
2023:
“The Devil Don't Come with Horns” (Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology)
short fiction — nomination
2022:
“The Failing Name” (by EB & Seb Doubinsky) (Fantasy Aug 2021)
short fiction — nomination
British Fantasy Awards — for fantasy works published in the UK, voted by British Fantasy Society members, juried since 2012
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2026:
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella (Stars and Sabers)
novella — nomination (pending)
2026:
“Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other” (Strange Horizons 24 Mar 2025)
non-fiction — nomination (pending)
2023:
An Earnest Blackness (Anti-Oedipus Press)
non-fiction — winner
British SF Association Awards — for SF works published in the UK, voted by British SF Association members
(5 nominations; 1 win)
2026:
“Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other” (Strange Horizons 24 Mar 2025)
nonfiction (short) — winner
2025:
“An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal” (Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction)
nonfiction (short) — nomination
2024:
Broken Paradise (Luna)
shorter fiction (novelette or novella) — nomination
2024:
“Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction” (Aurealis 158)
nonfiction (short) — nomination
2021:
Ivory's Story (NewCon)
short fiction — nomination
Ignyte Awards — for SF/F/H that celebrates vibrancy and diversity; committee and popular vote
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2025:
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic)
creative nonfiction — winner
Otherwise Award — for SF/F that explores and expands the roles of women and men, juried
(1 nomination)
2022:
Danged Black Thing (Transit Lounge)
honor list
Philip K. Dick Award — for SF original paperback published in the US, juried
(1 nomination)
2024:
Danged Black Thing (Apex)
finalist
Shirley Jackson Awards — for works of psychological horror and dark fantastic, juried
(2 nominations)
2025:
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting (Raw Dog Screaming)
single-author collection — nomination
2024:
Broken Paradise (Luna Press)
novella — nomination
— Locus Awards and Poll —
Locus Awards — for SF/F/H works, polled by readers of Locus Magazine
(3 nominations; 1 win)
2025:
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction (Bloomsbury Academic)
non-fiction — winner
2024:
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) (Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, EB & Milton Davis, eds.) (Caezic)
anthology — 3rd place
2023:
An Earnest Blackness (Anti-Oedipus)
nonfiction — 9th place
— Other Awards —
Aurealis Awards — for SF/F/H works published in Australia; juried
(5 nominations)
2026:
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer (Stars and Sabers)
horror novella — nomination
2026:
Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association (EB & Gene Rowe, eds.) (BSFA)
anthology — nomination
2026:
“Ne'za's Yearning” (Omenana 31 Mar 2025)
young adult short story — nomination
2025:
Fission #4 (EB & Gene Rowe, eds.) (The British Science Fiction Association)
anthology — nomination
2022:
Danged Black Thing (Transit Lounge)
collection — nomination
Ditmar Awards — for Australian SF/F, voted by members of Australian National SF Convention
(4 nominations)
2023:
for An Earnest Blackness (Anti-Oedipus)
— William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2022:
for Aurealis Reviews (editor and reviews)
— William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2020:
Claiming T-Mo (Meerkat)
novel — nomination
2020:
Writing Speculative Fiction (Red Globe)
William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
SFWA Awards — for works and contributions to SF, presented by the SFFWA
(1 nomination; 1 win)
2025:
— Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award — winner
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