Yiming Ma 📚

Author of THESE MEMORIES DO NOT BELONG TO US (August 2025) @HarperCollins | @Stanford MBA | @Guardian #BAMEPrize 2018

[4th Estate Books @4thEstateBooks]

Last year’s #BAMEPrize winner was @ma_yiming. He said of the prize:
‘I feel grateful to 4th Estate for nurturing my story, believing in the voices of minority writers and giving us a platform to share our untold stories’

Enter this year's prize here: https://t.co/OHFiygPZbJ

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

@onestorymag Thank you @onestorymag!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

@onestorymag However, it appears that I may have misinterpreted the Nov.15th midnight deadline as inclusive of Nov. 15th. I would really appreciate the opportunity to be considered. Thank you for your kindness. ~ @ma_yiming

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

@onestorymag For many weeks, I have been working on my responses for the Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship. As a minority writer without an M.F.A. whose stories focus on bodies of difference, the fellowship appeared perfect. (1/2)

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thank you @nytimes for publishing my family's story. https://t.co/vIjqZSFRfS

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

What #genius. Devoured this #denisjohnson masterpiece on the express train from #madrid to #segovia and back. Fitting.
#writing #book #art #train #traindreams @ Segovia, Spain https://t.co/rEsEwoAKNT

[Penguin Books Canada @PenguinCanada]

Congratulations to @Thea_Lim, whose unforgettable love story An Ocean of Minutes has been longlisted for a @GillerPrize! https://t.co/BhI0oRZovN

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

What a background that night @Foyles Gallery. Thank you @tintiddle!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thanks so much @chapmanchapman! Can't wait for "Riots I Have Known" to come out next year! Thrilling voice ~

[HarperCollinsUK @HarperCollinsUK]

Huge congratulations to Yiming Ma on winning the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize 2018!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

@chapmanchapman thank you! Can't wait for "Riots I Have Known" to come out next year too!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thank you so much @guygunaratne! Honored. Congratulations as well on the @ManBookerPrize longlist! Fingers crossed for Sept. 20th!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thank you Mary!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thank you Elise!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Yiming Ma’s 'deeply melancholy' tale wins BAME short story prize https://t.co/EZQ3RQmgxB

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

Thank you Claire for the kind words!

[Claire Armitstead @carmitstead]

Very well deserved win for @ma_yiming in the Guardian/ Fourth Estate short story prize. https://t.co/FomcHtf1OJ

[aaww-nyc.bsky.social @aaww]

"One of the most valuable things for me about AAWW was being able to talk about issues of who we write for. Are we writing to each other, or are we writing to this white audience?"

S/O @lim_eugene & @alexanderchee for all the love in this! @ElectricLit 💘https://t.co/w9ShFTAfix

[Min Jin Lee @minjinlee11]

It’s true. https://t.co/gdE0sVVLMo

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

thanks @thebookseller!

[The Bookseller @thebookseller]

Chinese-Canadian writer @ma_yiming is on the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize shortlist for his "unforgiving exploration of how societies create and abandon their heroes": https://t.co/PsWLpT7oFE

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

@ckingwriter @guardian @4thEstateBooks @carmitstead Thanks, Claire!

[Yiming Ma 📚 @ma_yiming]

I grew up reading @guardian & @4thEstateBooks authors. Thrilled to be a finalist Guardian 4th Estate #BAMEPrize. Excited to attend Sept. ceremony in London. Thanks to judges, and kind remarks in this Guardian feature, especially Anna Kelly & @carmitstead!

https://t.co/P6eFUqtHGQ