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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Chasing Whispers
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'Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and folklore. It contains 13 stories, 11 of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson. The collection is aligned with the themes of Eugen Bacon's other fiction, and her recognition in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for "doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction."

'Chasing Whispers casts a gaze at mostly women and children haunted by patriarchy, in stories packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope. The connecting theme is a black protagonist with a deep longing for someone, someplace, something... and a recurring phrase in each story: "a deep and terrible sadness."'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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Works about this Work

The Craft of Writing : Chasing Whispers Phil Nicholls (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 157 2023;
Afro-irreal Dark Fantasy Unleashed Dominique Hecq , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Chasing Whispers Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work short story ; An Earnest Blackness Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work essay 'Under review here are two smashing books by Eugen Bacon: Chasing Whispers and An Earnest Blackness, both snapped up by a US publisher, the twin houses of Anti-Oedipus Press and Raw Dog Screaming. One is a collection of Afro-Australian stories, the other a selection of essays that interrogates black writing and black speculative fiction, including some of its author’s in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter.' (Introduction)
Locus Looks at Books : Paula Guran Paula Guran , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , November vol. 89 no. 5 2022; (p. 18, 45)
— Review of Chasing Whispers Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work short story
Locus Looks at Books : Paula Guran Paula Guran , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Locus , November vol. 89 no. 5 2022; (p. 18, 45)
— Review of Chasing Whispers Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work short story
Afro-irreal Dark Fantasy Unleashed Dominique Hecq , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
— Review of Chasing Whispers Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work short story ; An Earnest Blackness Eugen Bacon , 2022 selected work essay 'Under review here are two smashing books by Eugen Bacon: Chasing Whispers and An Earnest Blackness, both snapped up by a US publisher, the twin houses of Anti-Oedipus Press and Raw Dog Screaming. One is a collection of Afro-Australian stories, the other a selection of essays that interrogates black writing and black speculative fiction, including some of its author’s in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter.' (Introduction)
The Craft of Writing : Chasing Whispers Phil Nicholls (interviewer), 2023 single work interview
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 157 2023;
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