In addition, Chacon is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of Unending Rooms, which he won the 2007 Hudson Prize for, the Shadows Took Him, and Chicano Chicanery. His fiction has appeared in the anthologies Lengua Fresca: Latinos Writing on the Edge; Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction; and Best of the West 2009: New Stories from the West Side of the Missouri.