Tag: Eugen Bacon

  • Julienne van Loon’s The Thinking Woman

    Julienne van Loon’s The Thinking Woman

    Reviewed by Eugen Bacon. An insightful foreword by Anne Summers gives you hint of this philosophical book that celebrates being a woman.  It is a compelling piece of art, autobiography and scholarship full of enchantment with play. It offers in its meditative approach to the everyday a journey that is also an inspiration, a sharing…

  • Review of Eugen Bacon’s fiction

    Review of Eugen Bacon’s fiction

    By Roanna Gonsalves Eugen Bacon writes with cheekiness and a fierce intelligence that shines through every page of her work. Right from the first sentence, the voices of each of her narrators grab the reader with their lucidity, their panache, and their uncompromising observational rigour. This rigour manifests itself in the freshness of Bacon’s prose,…

  • Apocalypse

    Apocalypse

    By Eugen Bacon Blood and sweat   The kitchen is alive with old knowledge. Red dust, oregano leaves, cockerel feathers. Dried flowers adulterate dainty cucumber sandwiches garnished with pickled shallots, arrayed on an edible cake tray. Her labour pangs strike as she is arranging warmed plates and polished cutlery on the table. On crooked knees…

  • Eugen Bacon

    Eugen Bacon

    Eugen Bacon is a computer scientist mentally re-engineered into creative writing. She has sold many stories and articles, together with anthologies. Her stories have won, been shortlisted and commended in international awards, including the Bridport Prize, L Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, Copyright Agency Prize and Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards.…