Eugen Bacon
2025
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer • novella • Stars and Sabers
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2026 — horror novella — nomination
Fission #5: An Anthology of Stories from the British Science Fiction Association (EB & Gene Rowe, eds.) • anthology • BSFA
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2026 — anthology — nomination
“Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other” • short fiction • Strange Horizons 24 Mar 2025
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2026 — nonfiction (short) — nomination (pending)
“Ne'za's Yearning” • short fiction • Omenana 31 Mar 2025
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2026 — young adult short story — nomination
2024
Fission #4 (EB & Gene Rowe, eds.) • anthology • The British Science Fiction Association
awards:
• Aurealis Awards 2025 — anthology — nomination
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction • nonfiction • Bloomsbury Academic
awards:
• Ignyte Awards 2025 — creative nonfiction — winner
• Locus Awards 2025 — non-fiction — winner
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting • collection • Raw Dog Screaming
awards:
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2025 — single-author collection — nomination
“An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal” • short fiction • Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2025 — nonfiction (short) — nomination
SFWA Awards 2025 — Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award — winner
2023
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) (Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, EB & Milton Davis, eds.) • anthology • Caezic
awards:
• Locus Awards 2024 — anthology — 3rd place
Danged Black Thing • collection • Apex
awards:
• Philip K. Dick Award 2024 — finalist
Broken Paradise • novella • Luna
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2024 — shorter fiction (novelette or novella) — nomination
• Shirley Jackson Awards 2024 — novella — nomination
“Dominant Themes in Afro-Centric Fiction” • short fiction • Aurealis 158
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2024 — nonfiction (short) — nomination
2022
An Earnest Blackness • nonfiction • Anti-Oedipus Press
awards:
• British Fantasy Awards 2023 — non-fiction — winner
• Locus Awards 2023 — nonfiction — 9th place
“The Devil Don't Come with Horns” • short fiction • Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2023 — short fiction — nomination
Ditmar Awards 2023 — William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2021
Danged Black Thing • collection • Apex
awards:
• Otherwise Award 2022 — honor list
• Aurealis Awards 2022 — collection — nomination
“The Failing Name” (by EB & Seb Doubinsky) • short fiction • Fantasy Aug 2021
awards:
• World Fantasy Awards 2022 — short fiction — nomination
Ditmar Awards 2022 — William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
2020
Ivory's Story • novel • NewCon
awards:
• British SF Association Awards 2021 — short fiction — nomination
2019
Writing Speculative Fiction • nonfiction • Red Globe
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2020 — William Atheling Jr. Award for Criticism or Review — nomination
Claiming T-Mo • novel • Meerkat Press
awards:
• Ditmar Awards 2020 — novel — nomination
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