Xujun Eberlein Publications

Non-Fiction Fiction Awards

Publications and Awards

Work published in the US, Canada, England, and other countries...

Selected Publications: Non-Fiction

"Another Swimmer," in Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, edited by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC Press, September 2012
"The Rules of the Game," essay on China's officialdom novels, Foreign Policy, July/August 2012
"The Teacher of the Future," dual book review of Tombstone and Mao's Great Famine, LA Review of Books, January, 2012
"Another Kind of American History in Chongqing," personal and historical essay, The Atlantic Web, Feburary, 2011

"The Return of Politically Charged Science Fiction in China," book essay, Foreign Policy, July 30, 2010
"Killing Children - An Act of War Against China’s Collective Future," commentary, New America Media, May 17, 2010
"Anomie in the New China," book review, Women's Review of Books, September/October 2009
"China: Democracy or Confuciansim?" reportage, China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009
"The Camphor Suitcase," personal essay, Literal Latte, November 2008
"At the Starbucks in Chongqing," personal essay, Iron Horse, Summer Issue, 2008
"On Becoming an American," memoir, Michigan Quarterly Review, May 2008
"Swimming with Mao," memoir, Walrus, July/August 2006
"Lost Letters," personal essay, Asia Literary Review, December 2007
"On Mao’s 114th Birthday, Past Catches Up to..." news report, New America Media, December 21, 2007
"Mao's Red Guards 40 Years Later - Victimizers or Victims?" feature article, New America Media, December 26, 2006
"A Hundred Years at 15," literary nonfiction, Post Road, issue 13, December 2006
"Turning My Back on the Well," memoir, Prism International 44:3, Spring 2006
"The Wall of the Paris Commune," personal essay, Divide, Art and Politics Issue, Fall 2005

Non-Fiction Fiction Awards

Selected Publications: Fiction

Fiction translation: "Skylark" by Jin Renshun (Pathlight, issue 2, April 2012)
"Monument of Bird," (The Ledge Poetry and Fiction Magazine, No. 31, January 2009)
Apologies Forthcoming, debut story collection, Livingston Press, June 2008
"Pivot Point" (Agni 62, Fall 2005)
"Men Don't Apologize" (Night Train V, Spring 2005)
"Watch the Thrill" (Meridian 14, Fall/Winter 2004; Stand 177, 2004)
"The Randomness of Love" (Saint Anne's Review, Summer/Fall 2004; reprinted in Storyglossia)
"Second Encounter" (Paumanok Review, 2004)
"Goldbach's Conjecture" (StoryQuarterly 40, 2004)
"Snow Line" (Cottonwood 62; Kwani 01, 2004)
"Disciple of the Masses" (novella excerpt, In Posse Review, 2002)

Non-Fiction Fiction Awards

Awards and Honors

Narrative Winter 2013 Story Contest finalist, May 2013
DANA AWARD IN THE ESSAY 2011, Second Honorable Mention, April 2012
Runner-up for Drake Emerging Writer's Award, 2009
Massachusetts Cultural Council's Artist Grant in Fiction/Creative Nonficton, June 2008
Second prize in Literal Latte's Essay Awards, March 2008
Top Ten feature article winner in 76th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition, October 2007
Goldfarb Non-fiction Fellowship from VCCA, July 2007
First Prize winner of the Ledge 2007 Fiction Award, July 2007
Winner of the Third Annual Tartt Fiction Award, June 2007
Special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXI, 2007 edition
Nomination for The Pushcart Prize by Dragonfire, December 2006
Nomination for The Pushcart Prize by Night Train, December 2005
Top essay winner in 74th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2005
Nomination for the Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American Science and Nature Writing by StoryQuarterly, 2005
Fiction Scholarship from Bread Loaf, 2005
Finalist in MVP competition for "new and emerging" writers, New Rivers Press, 2004
Million Writers Award Top Ten Stories of 2004
Top short story winner in 72nd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, 2003
Novella Finalist in William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, 2003

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