The Writer as an Agent of Change

Authors

  • Eugen Bacon University of Tasmania

Abstract

This is a version of a public address that Dr Eugen Bacon delivered as the 2024 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer in Residence in October 2024. In it, Bacon shares her vision of the power of storytelling and the role of the activist speculative fiction writer in a time of social, political, and environmental crisis. 

Author Biography

  • Eugen Bacon, University of Tasmania

    Born in Tanzania and based in Melbourne, Eugen Bacon is the author of several novels and collections. She’s a British Fantasy Award winner, a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award finalist (for her most recent novel Serengotti), a Foreword Indies Award winner, twice a World Fantasy Award finalist, and a finalist in the Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick Award, and the Nommo Awards for speculative fiction by Africans. Her work has appeared in some of the world’s most esteemed fantasy, science fiction and African literary magazines. Eugen holds a PhD in creative writing from Swinburne University and is currently an adjunct fellow at the University of Tasmania.

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Published

2024-12-20

Issue

Vol. 24 No. 1 (2024): JASAL 24.1

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The Writer as an Agent of Change. (2024). Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 24(1). https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/article/view/20460