Flame Tree Publishing has announced the acquisition of Eugen Bacon’s newest collection of short stories Black Dingo.

The collection will be published under Flame Tree‘s Beyond and Within series, overseen by Nick Wells of Flame Tree Publishing. The book is set to be released in October 2026, distributed by Simon and Schuster in the US and Hachette in the UK, Europe and Asia.

Black Dingo is described as “a cross-genre miscellany that embraces Eugen’s hybridity as an African Australian who is ‘betwixt’, ‘a sum of parts.'” The collection features genre-bending Afro-Irreal tales exploring themes of longing and belonging, unlimited futures, and “a collision of worlds and everything in between: rich hues of shadow and light.” The literary strange unravels through these stories that celebrate the author’s position as an African Australian navigating multiple cultural identities.

Bacon is a multi-award-winning African Australian author and Solstice, British Fantasy and Foreword Indies Award winner. She’s 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. Her previous collection Danged Black Thing made the Otherwise Award Honor List as “a sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work.”

Black Dingo is sponsored through Bacon’s 2024 Otherwise Fellowship awarded by the Otherwise Motherboard. The fellowship recognition underscores her significant contributions to speculative fiction that challenges conventional boundaries around gender and identity.

Flame Tree Publishing continues to champion speculative fiction that pushes genre boundaries and amplifies diverse voices. Earlier this year, acquired two books of Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side that Bacon is co-editing with Cheryl S. Ntumy and Stephen Embleton, demonstrating the publisher’s commitment to her expanding body of work. They also published the brilliant collection, African Ghost Stories.

 We are excited to see how Black Dingo contributes to the growing body of Afro-Australian speculative literature.

Visit Eugen Bacon at eugenbacon.com for more information about her work and upcoming releases including The Nga’phandileh Whisperer.