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Black Dingo Short Stories

By Eugen Bacon
Series: Beyond and Within
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A stunning collection of African-Australian short stories from the multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon. Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon's hybridity as an African Australian who is 'betwixt', 'a sum of parts'. She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a... Read More
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Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon's hybridity as an African Australian who is ‘betwixt’, a sum of parts. The literary strange unravels in these genre-bending Afro-irreal tales of longing and belonging, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and everything in between.

A stunning collection of African-Australian short stories from the multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon.

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A stunning collection of African-Australian short stories from the multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon. Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces multi-award-winning author Eugen Bacon's hybridity as an African Australian who is 'betwixt', 'a sum of parts'. She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a woman, a writer, an author, an editor, a scholar, and a friend. She is many, and it reflects in this collection that traverses transformative stories of longing and belonging, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, mythology, and more.

Featuring a black heroine, each story includes a cameo or secondary character of a black dingo. The dark speculative fiction in Black Dingo casts black people in bold and evocative text, with protagonists that are deeply flawed yet potentially redeemable, portrayed in rich hues of blackness and light.

The literary strange unravels in these genre-bending Afro-irreal tales of longing and belonging, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, and everything in between: rich hues of shadow and light.

AUTHOR: Tanzanian-born author Eugen Bacon is a British Fantasy Award winner, a Foreword Indies Award winner, and a twice World Fantasy Award finalist. Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as a 'sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work', and was a 2024 Philip K. Dick Award nominee. Visit her at eugenbacon.com.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781835627877

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 October 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing

Illustration: 25 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

  • Foreword by K. Ibura

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 195.0mm

Height: 122.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She is a Solstice, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, Foreword Indies and BSFA Award winner. She's also a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Awards and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was announced on the honor list 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. K. Ibura (Kiini Ibura Salaam) (Foreword) is a writer, artist and spirit worker from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books include the short story collection Ancient, Ancient, an Otherwise Award winner. She is also the co-editor of the speculative anthology Infinite Constellations. Her Notes from the Trenches ebook series examines the writing life. See more at kibura.com.

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