YIMING MA
Honors, Residencies & Publications
Carol Houck Smith Scholarship, Warren Wilson MFA, 2023
“Hero Dreams” – Second Place, Florida Review Editors' Prize, 2021
“Chankonabe” – Finalist, Ploughshares Emerging Writers Contest, 2020
– Shortlist, Gulf Coast Prize, 2020
– Shortlist, LitMag Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction 2020
“Memories of 3547” – Longlist, Disquiet Prize, 2020
Holden Grant, Levis Scholarship, Warren Wilson MFA, 2020
Grant, Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2019
“My Invisible Brother” – New York Times, 2018
Grant, Vermont Studio Center 2018
“Swimmer of Yangtze” – Winner, Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, 2018
– Finalist, LitMag Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction, 2018
– Shortlist, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017
– Finalist, Glimmer Train Short Story Sept./Oct. Award, 2016
“To My Girl On a Plane” – Ricepaper Magazine, 2016
“Ancestral Symphony in Belarusian Forest” – Shortlist, Geist CanLit Contest, 2016
“Love | Ramen” – Finalist, Penguin Random House Canada Student Award for Fiction, 2016