Afrofuturistic Pastoral Speculative Poetry Quarterly Reading Series Friday June 24 with poet and writer Eugen Bacon

The Afrofuturistic Pastoral Speculative Poetry Quarterly Reading Series

2022 Free Live on Facebook Via Zoom all from 7 to 8 p.m. features Akua Lezli Hope with poet guests. The event includes reading of new speculative poetry and discussion of the afrofuturistic and the pastoral in the realm of speculative poetry.

Friday June 24 with poet and writer Eugen Bacon

Eugen M. Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is African Australian, a computer graduate mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She studied at Maritime Campus, less than two minutes' walk from The Royal Observatory of the Greenwich Meridian. Her novella Ivory’s Story was shortlisted in the 2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Awards. Her work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and international awards, including the Foreword Indies Awards, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Awards for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Bacon’s creative work has appeared in literary and speculative fiction publications worldwide, including Award Winning Australian Writing, BSFA, Fantasy Magazine, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Bloomsbury and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. New releases 2021: Danged Black Thing (collection), Saving Shadows (illustrated collection)