Speculate: A Collection of Microlit
Jan 2021 · Meerkat Press
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A mind-bending journey through speculative prose and poetic landscapes.
Speculate: A Collection of Microlit disrupts language and genre, offering a hybrid of speculative poetry and flash fiction. Two adventurous writers, Eugen Bacon and Dominique Hecq, engage in a provocative dialogue, pushing the boundaries of imagination and form. This collection thrums with jouissance and intensity, chasing the impossible and creating a unique reading experience.
Explore surreal settings, encounter mythological archetypes, and delve into dreamlike emotional themes. This avant-garde collection is perfect for readers seeking thought-provoking, unconventional literature that challenges traditional norms and celebrates the beauty of language. Discover a world where art and literature intertwine, and speculation knows no bounds.
A mind-bending journey through speculative prose and poetic landscapes.
Speculate: A Collection of Microlit disrupts language and genre, offering a hybrid of speculative poetry and flash fiction. Two adventurous writers, Eugen Bacon and Dominique Hecq, engage in a provocative dialogue, pushing t...
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Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She's the author of Claiming T-Mo (Meerkat Press) and Writing Speculative Fiction (Macmillan). Her work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and international awards, including the Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Nommo Award for Speculative Fiction by Africans. Eugen is a recipient of the Katharine Susannah Prichard (KSP) Emerging Writer-in-Residence 2021. Her creative work has appeared in literary and speculative fiction publications worldwide, including Award Winning Australian Writing, Aurealis, Bards and Sages, Meniscus, TEXT Journal, Unsung Stories, British Science Fiction Association's Vector Magazine and through Routledge in New Writing. In 2020 she released The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories (Meerkat Press), Hadithi & The State of Black Speculative Fiction (Luna Press Publishing), Ivory's Story (NewCon Press) and Black Moon (IFWG). Dominique Hecq, MA, Dip Ed, PhD, worked as Research Leader in her capacity as Associate Professor in Writing at Swinburne University of Technology after teaching at a number of universities in Australia and overseas. She has a background in Literature as well as French and Germanic languages, with qualifications in translating. Hecq writes across disciplines, and sometimes across tongues. Her creative works comprise one novel, three collections of short stories, ten books of poetry and two one-act plays. She co-edited Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies (1998; 2015) and Creative Writing with Critical Theory: Inhabitation (2018), edited The Creativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century (2013) and wrote the widely acclaimed Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing (2015). Kaosmos (2020) and Tracks (2020) are her most recent publications in English. Among her multiple awards for fiction, poetry and translation, Hecq is a recipient of the 2018 International Best Poets Prize administered by the International Poetry Translation and Research Centre in conjunction with the International Academy of Arts and Letters.
Eugen Bacon, MA, MSc, PhD, is African Australian, a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She's the author of Claiming T-Mo (Meerkat Press) and Writing Speculative Fiction (Macmillan). Her work has won, been shortlisted, longlisted or commended in national and internati...
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