Mizuki Yamamoto
Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
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- I'm coming up from my holiday break from socials - and sharing this bit of solstice writing from last month in @necessaryfiction.com 🍊 inspired by real life.
- Day 2 of our solstice gathering features writing by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, Catherine Reedy, Kendra Cardin, @garetherees.bsky.social, @nonabiding.bsky.social, @erinkeane.bsky.social, @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social, Lleyton Michael Kane, and Warren Stoddard II. necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...
- More importantly, I'm so happy to be in this solstice issue with @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social who nudged me early in 2025 to start subbing. What a joy to be able to share space with her writing! 💗
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto"Beyond their outstretched hands is the beginning of everything else that has ever and will have ever existed, bodies pleading." Blown away by this frantic piece of writing from @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @lostballoon.bsky.social lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...
- If you'd like a perfectly delivered micro with every bit the heartbreaking weight of a longer piece, go read my friend @lyss-b.bsky.social's story in @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀
- Today's story is "Grief in Glass" Lyss Buchthal. #ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros
- I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.
- You are going to love our new piece by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social! Check out “Subway Surfing.” lost-balloon.com/2025/12/17/s...
- Is there a basement under your basement where you can find the answer to all of your life's Unsolved Mysteries? Eerie, and at every step, a revelatory story by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social in one of my faves @hexliterary.bsky.social!
- "In the basement the television is on, and Robert Stack is waiting for me, his gray trench coat perfectly still against a black void. 'In the closet under the stairwell, remove the wood paneling...'" @iamchrisscott.bsky.social leads us into impossible architectures, new today on hex!
- Can't wait to dive into the new issue of @smokelong.bsky.social!! Every issue is chock full of beauty and inspiration ✨ reminding me of all that is good in the world.
- Issue 90 is live! Please go read the amazing work within, including the top 7 stories chosen from hundreds submitted to the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest and the overall winner, Love; Sigh by Claire Y. Guo. Thank you so much to everyone who sent us work this quarter. www.smokelong.com/issue-ninety/
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto“Writing has the ability to … recontextualize, to correct, to make new what has been so long accepted as the standard.” Read Kiana Shaley’s Flash 405: “Normal” winners with multi-genre flash by Tara Dugan, JR Fenn, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social & Lucy Rodriguez-Hanley: tinyurl.com/Normal405.
- Reposted by Mizuki YamamotoThere is such a rich variety of owls, I have tried to depict some of them here (GROWL, PROWL and YOWL not included). www.worldofmoose.com/products/owl...
- "To be honest, it’s cool and comforting knowing that Antarctica’s in his basement, a vast and wondrous polar continent beneath him, and when Mike’s at school he yearns for that quiet world." Such a gorgeous story told in extended metaphor by @belindarowe.bsky.social in @vestalreview.bsky.social 👏🏻
- Total joy to be included in the latest edition of @vestalreview.bsky.social - thanks so much to EIC David Galef and editors for the publication (!) & @smokelong.bsky.social & SLF peeps! This edition includes stories by writers who I GREATLY admire - 🍃🍃🍃 www.vestalreview.net/antarctica-i...
- Reposted by Mizuki YamamotoSo here's what I wish for us: * we give books as holiday gifts * we get them from our local indie bookstores * we spend time reading with the people and pets we love * when we feel the call, we write * we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep * we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto“You don’t come here for the heat, though it helps. You come for the smallness.” Bath House + 2 by @mizuki-yama.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu...
- I am so so honored my story w/ a 🐸 in none other than @flashfrog.bsky.social has been nominated for the Pushcart! So much gratitude to @ericscottryon.bsky.social & the ⚡🐸 team. 🙏🏻 This was my first *ever* prose acceptance. For it to be on this list is just surreal. Congrats to all the nominees!
- We are excited to announce our Pushcart nominations!🎉 @kyleisamu.bsky.social, @mizuki-yama.bsky.social, @thehagsoup.bsky.social, Annie Johnson, Sophie Castro, Amanda Aileen Fisher
- Thank you Dana and team for nominating my tiny little poems at @tinywrenlit.bsky.social for the Pushcart Prize 🙏🏻🥰 Congratulations to all!
- I cannot quite believe it but my very small story "Receipt" has been nominated for the 2026 Best Microfiction Anthology! 🥳 Thank you a thousand times over to the @doesithavepockets.bsky.social team for believing in this piece. I am so incredibly honored 🙏🏻💚 Congratulations to all the nominees!
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto"...she asks, “Do you want a bag?” like it’s a trick question, like there’s a right answer and I’ve already failed it..." Three breathtaking new #microfictions from Mizuki Yamamato @mizuki-yama.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/mizu... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto"After my sister died, a koi fish started flapping around in the gutter down the street, just thrashing there like it had a point to make & no way to say it." Gorgeous work from dream double act @mizuki-yama.bsky.social/@doesithavepockets.bsky.social. Mizuki wields prose like surgeons wield scalpels
- Reposted by Mizuki YamamotoAnother achingly beautiful piece by my talented friend @mizuki-yama.bsky.social <3
- new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull! havehashad.com/i2wjr
- Today, I have some new words in @havehashad.com! And this one paired with a donation to Community Foodshare in my local county in the spirit of giving 💝 Thank you Crow & @aaronburch.bsky.social for giving my second skull a home!
- new Mizuki Yamamoto today with that nice tidal pull! havehashad.com/i2wjr
- Reposted by Mizuki Yamamoto“I feel it there, for just a second—pity maybe, or recognition, or just a soft place where the world didn’t press too hard today” All three of these stories are spectacular. @mizuki-yama.bsky.social , you are amazing!
- Do you miss being a teenager? What about all the angst? No? 😆 I recommend you read this story by @nomad-sw18.bsky.social in @doesithavepockets.bsky.social so you can relive all the beauty and longing you might've forgotten in those moments ✨
- "“Careful you don’t get a reputation for being a b-i-t-c-h,” spells out Maggie." This new #fiction from DIHP alum @nomad-sw18.bsky.social is so perfect it's painful in the very best way | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social
