TERRANCE MANNING JR. FIRST PLACE The Rotten Ones (memoir) KAI CARLSON-WEE SECOND PLACE Midnight Sun(photo essay) VIVIAN CARMICHAEL THIRD PLACE Shards (short story)
FINALISTS
Xujun Eberlein In Which No Sex Takes Place (memoir) Justina Elias A Deep, Sweet Hurt (essay) Cai Emmons Her Boys (short story) TJ Gerlach Double A (short story) Corey Van Landingham Antebellum (essay) Mimi Lok Last of Her Name (short story) Richard Newton Firebreak (short story) Maureen Onuigbo Adamu and the Fab Four (short story) Samantha Talley Hell Is Empty (novel excerpt) James Tibbitt The Hoodlum (short story)
With Guobin Yang, Sebastian Veg, Xujun Eberlein and Angela Köckritz Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6:00 pm Robert Bosch Stiftung, Französische Straße 32, 10117 Berlin The event will take place in English and will be followed by a small reception. It will be accompanied by a one-night only exhibition of ink paintings by Ni Shaofeng, Hamburg.
Interact with authors
on the main floor where some will have books for purchase, or hear them
discuss their work in the Raytheon Room. We hope to connect local
readers with local authors.
FIRST
PLACE:
KAREN K. FORD The Tracks SECOND
PLACE :
STEPHANIE EARLY
GREEN Seven
Waves for Good Luck THIRD
PLACE :
ABE LOUISE YOUNG Landscapes with Lester
TEN FINALISTS ($100 each)
Judith Barrington How I Left a Life of Crime and Came
to America
Garrard Conley Genogram of an Ex-Ex-Gay Xujun
EberleinClouds and Rain over Three Gorges
C. J. Hauser The Lost Book of Lola
Julia Lichtblau Circus
Jim Nichols Owls
Lynn Stegner For All the Obvious Reasons
Adam Stumacher Silicone Dreams
Joselyn Takacs The New River
Russell C. Working Us
Join media commentator,
professor, Asia Society fellow and co-editor of
the this provocative new book, Jeffrey
Wasserstrom; memoirist and fiction writer Xujun
Eberlein; writer and photographer Howard
French; journalist and translator Megan
Shank for a conversation challenging familiar media
stereotypes of China. Followed by a book
sale and signing. See event details here.
Winner: Peter Selgin,
Winter Park, FL, for THE KUHREIHEN
MELODY.
First Honorable Mention: Mako Yoshikawa, Cambridge, MA.
Second
Honorable Mention: Xujun
Eberlein, Wayland, MA.
Other finalists: Ioanna Carlsen, Tesuque, NM; Joshua Dolezal, Windsor
Heights, IA; Laura M. Gibson, Longview, WA; Deborah Gold; Lynn Shapiro,
New York, NY; Erin Soros, North Vancouver, British Columbia; Laurie
Saurborn Young, Austin, TX.
China Inside-Out
A celebration of Chinese Women Writers in English March
11-13, 2010, University of Edinburg
A Scottish PEN collaboration, organised
and sponsored by the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University
of Edinburgh, brings together Chinese
women writing fiction, non-fiction and poetry in English with Scottish
women writers. Participants include:
Writer and academic: Professor
Shu-mei Shih, Dr Judith Misrahi Barack, Dr Margaret Hillenbrand
Poet and fiction writer: Wang Ping
Fiction writers: Xujun Eberlein, Liu Hong,
Chiew-Siah Tei,
Critics: Professor LuMing Mao. Dr
Amy Lai
Scottish writers: Lesley Glaister,
Dilys Rose, A C Clarke, Dr Bashabi Fraser
Convenor of the Women's Committee
of Scottish PEN: Faith Pullin
President of Scottish PEN and
writer: Jenni Calder
Drake Emerging Writer Award in
Short Fiction Saturday,
December 19, 2009
Chinese-American authors such as Iris
Chang
and Amy Tan have made a significant contribution to factual and
fictional literature, but few have a tale to tell as piquant as Xujun
Eberlein's. Continue reading>>
"Be
the Butterfly: Transforming Your Life into Fiction" - presented
by Xujun
Eberlein
Discover how to
transform your real life experiences into fiction. In
this workshop you will learn how to make a story read as both true and
interesting not only to you, but also to a broader audience.
Participants are expected to bring one clear copy of a scene (approx.
500 words, double-spaced, 12-point font) from a work in progress. This
scene should be based on an unforgettable memory. Try to make it as
interesting as possible. Feel free to make up details that help with
this... Up to five participants will be called upon to to read from and
share their work with the class, so be prepared. We will explore the
differences between the true-life version and the fictionalized, and
analyze why changes were made. This workshop is for
beginner-intermediate writers. SOLD OUT!
Saturday,
14 March, 10:00am, The
Fringe Theatre
Dislocated
Voices
For
authors who live far from home, can writing act as an
umbilical cord to the mother country? Or is the idea of homeland
becoming
redundant in an age of mass migration, diaspora and exile? Join this
panel of
transnational writers in a discussion on whether geographical
displacement as
it is lived in the 21st century is an impediment to the writing process
- or a
gift to it. Chiew-Siah Tei, Xujun Eberlein
and Neel Chowdhury
talk with Marysia Juszczakiewicz.
Sunday,
15 March, 3:00pm,
The
Fringe Theatre
Asia
Literary Review Presents: The Year
of the Short Story
Award-winning
authors Nam Le,
Rana
Dasgupta
and Xujun Eberlein
discuss the art of the short
story. The Boat’s
seven stories have characters as varied as a Japanese third-grader, an
ageing
painter with hemorrhoids and an American woman visiting IranTokyo
Cancelled
thirteen
passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell stories that add up to a
broad
exploration of 21st-century forms of life. Apologies
Forthcoming is a
collection centred around China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath.
In
conversation
with Chris Wood, editor of Asia Literary
Review.
English language Asian rights
to 2007 Tartt Fiction Award winner Xujun Eberlein's
APOLOGIES FORTHCOMING, a collection of stories set during and after
China's Cultural Revolution, to Blacksmith Books
in Hong Kong, for
publication in March 2009.
Maynard — As a
young woman growing up in China, Xujun Eberlein dabbled in poetry and
short stories, getting some published here and there. After she moved
to the United States with her American husband, earned her doctorate
and raised her daughter, writing fell to the
wayside. Continue reading>>
WAYLAND
— Xujun Eberlein remembers the stories China's
leaders want to forget.
In
her first book, "Apologies Forthcoming," she writes about growing
up in China at a time parents feared their children and students
marched their teachers through the streets in dunce caps. Continue reading>>
(From MCC Press Room)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 23, 2008
MCC Recognizes Artists for
Exceptional Work
39
Visual Artists, Choreographers, Musicians and Authors Awarded $7,500
(BOSTON, MA) -- The Massachusetts
Cultural Council (MCC) has recognized more than 60 Massachusetts artists for
creating work of exceptional quality in a range of disciplines.
MCC’s Artist Fellowship Program will award $7,500
unrestricted grants to 39 artists, and distinguish 24 others as
finalists. These outstanding artists were selected from 1,800
applicants in the disciplines of choreography, drawing,
painting, fiction/creative nonfiction, poetry and traditional
arts.
Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellows
include Steve Almond, author of Candyfreak:
A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America; Xujun Eberlein,
author of the just-released short story collection Apologies
Forthcoming; and Joan Wickersham,
whose memoir The Suicide Index will be published
in August.
WAYLAND - The
events of Sept. 11, 2001 were a decisive turning point for Wayland
resident Xujun Eberlein. With a PhD from MIT and a high-paying position
at a Newton software firm, Eberlein said the cataclysm of that day
resulted in a near-complete loss of interest in high-tech. Continue reading >>
"The
Camphor Suitcase" Won 2nd Prize in Literal Latte's
Essay Contest
February, 2008
This prize includes a cash award in the amount of $300 and
publication of the essay in the next issue of Literal
Latte
The grant is for a writer's residency in April 2008
"Monument
of Bird" Won the First Prize in The Ledge 2007 Fiction
Awards Competition
July 18, 2007
This prize includes a cash award in the amount of $1,000 and
publication of the story in the next issue of The
Ledge Poetry & Fiction Magazine, #31, its twentieth
anniversary issue, to be published in spring 2008.
The results will also be announced in print in the
January/February 2007 issue of Poets &
Writers Magazine. More information is available
at www.theledgemagazine.com.
The judging editor calls the story "movingly poignant and well
written."
Apologies
Forthcoming Won The Tartt Fiction Award
June 2007
The Award includes $1000 plus publication in hardcover and trade paper
by the Livingston Press
in summer 2008.
The award announcement says "Xujun's collection centers on
Mao's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath in China. The interaction
of her characters
is volatile, terse--and at the same time quite complicated and
sometimes desperately loving, as to be expected of that turbulent time.
"
Xujun is
named Goldfarb Fellow in Non-Fiction by VCCA For
immediate release: July
30,
2007
For information: 434-946-7236
(Amherst,
VA) - Xujun Eberlein of Wayland, MA, has been named the
Goldfarb Family Fellow in Non-fiction for 2007 at the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts (VCCA). The fellowship established by author and
literary agent Ronald Goldfarb fully supports one non-fiction writer a
year for a two-week residency at the VCCA. The VCCA is located in the
foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in rural Virginia. Xujun Eberlein
will be in residency with approximately 20 other artists focusing on
their own creative projects at the working retreat for visual artuists,
writers and composers.
A non-profit organization founded in 1971, the VCCA is supported in
large part by grants and private donations. More information is
avialble at www.vcca.com
or by calling 434-946-7236
