Nick Wells of Flame Tree Publishing has acquired the rights to publish multi-award-winning Eugen Bacon’s newest collection of African-Australian short stories, Black Dingo.
Black Dingo is a cross-genre miscellany that embraces Eugen’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: rich hues of shadow and light.
Flame Tree will release the story collection as part of its ‘Beyond and Within’ series in October 2026, distributed by Simon and Schuster in the US and Hachette in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Black Dingo is sponsored through Eugen’s 2024 Otherwise Fellowship awarded by the Otherwise Motherboard.
Earlier this year, Flame Tree also acquired two books of Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side, a book Eugen is co-editing with Cheryl S. Ntumy and Stephen Embleton.
About the Author
Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author. She’s a Solstice, British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner, a twice World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and a finalist in the Philip K. Dick Award, Ignyte and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Eugen is an Otherwise Fellow, and was also announced in 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.
Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim
Ibrahim is a Nigerian writer and editor currently based in the UK. He has won the Creative Future Writers’ Awards, the Quramo Writers' Prize, and received support from the Jessica George Bursary. His work has been selected for Best Small Fictions anthology, and has been a finalist for Faber Children's FAB Prize, Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, a Masters Review anthology prize, and twice for Moon City Short Fiction Award. He has also been longlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Laura Kinsella Fellowship, and Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize. He has multiple nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Among other things, he is currently the Editor of JAY Lit. He’s @heemthewriter on Twitter and Facebook, and @writtenbyheem on Instagram and Threads. More about Ibrahim can be found at www.heemthewriter.com
