Tracy Neiman

Words in: @MissReviewMag @flashficmag @ALitReview | @BklynWritingMFA ’24 | Rep: Renée Zuckerbrot, MMQA Lit | She/her. ✈️🐈‍⬛🌈

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

Honored and floored! Thank you, @MissReviewMag, for giving a home to my strange little magical realist story about avocados 🥑, memory, and grief.

[Mississippi Review @MissReviewMag]

Congratulations to our 2025 Prize Winners and Finalists! Their poems and stories will be published in our forthcoming 2025 Contest issue, Mississippi Review 53 1&2🎉🎉

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

10/ Here’s the hardest truth:

If democracy dies in America, it won’t be in secret.

It won’t be a coup in the night.

It’ll happen slowly. Legally. In broad daylight. With our permission.

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

@sophiakb_writes Yes. But then I feel guilty for worrying about my book when the planet is dying and end up in a self-loathing doom spiral 🌀 🙃. Fun!

[Cassidy McFadzean @cassidymcfadz]

A beautiful speech by @madeleinethien who will be donating the entirety of her prize to the Woodcock Fund for Canadian writers in need, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and the Lebanese Red Cross, in the name of her friend Y-Dang Troeung, who passed away in 2022.

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

@cassidymcfadz @madeleinethien Such a moving speech—a bright light in this world.

[Akela Lacy @akela_lacy]

As a senior Dem aide told me yesterday: People don’t trust us. We say things like Black Lives Matter and defund the police then we fund the police. We say ceasefire in Gaza and then we send weapons to Israel. People hate institutions. We are the institution

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

Coming soon to a bookstore near you…from the mind of one of the best teachers/writers/humans I know 🥹

[Madeleine Thien @madeleinethien]

My novel, The Book of Records, will slip into the world next year. I am so very grateful. Literature tries to hold, even fleetingly, what history and time dissolve.

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

@madeleinethien Congratulations, dear Maddie! Can’t wait to read it and for this to be out in the world. ��️

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

An open letter from Michael Ondaatje, Madeleine Thien and six other Giller winners: It’s time for the prize’s funders to divest from companies whose products are enabling the mass killing in Gaza. #Opinion https://t.co/wx5EOqjV0a

[Emma Grillo @emgrill_o]

We're open for submissions over at @bk_review ! Submit your fiction and non-fiction until January 1!

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

It should be illegal to write a story this good—by my brilliant former classmate @ErviceNikki

[Tracy Neiman @TracyNeiman]

@michellelynking @dirtyverse Michelle, this is an incredible piece. Just…wow.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Vote .org just announced a nearly 700% increase in daily voter registrations — more than 38,500 new registrations — in the 48-hour period following President Biden's announcement.

This figure marks the single largest number of voter registrations over a 48-hour period during the 2024 cycle.

Younger voters between 18 and 34 accounted for 83% of new registrations.

[REKH @rekhilperts]

White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience:

In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

This Facebook post went viral in Gaza for the saddest and most heartbreaking reasons imaginable. The author, Wa’ad, simply wrote, “What happened on the night you lost your family? Where were you?” The response was overwhelming. Thousands of comments poured in, filled with stories and testimonies from those who had lost loved ones. People recounted the last moments with their spouses, parents, or children as they died in their arms: a wife’s last phone call with her husband, a father who left to bring a tent or food but returned to find his family gone, a family that left and returned to find the mom or dad gone. An endless stream of stories unfolded, full of pain, injustice, mourning, and grief. This is just a small glimpse of what the people in Gaza have experienced and continue to endure.

[Ryan Hamilton @TheRyanHamilton]

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like.
Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out.
The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked.
I'll let you decide how you feel about that.
After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way.
The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?!
No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!".
Can you even imagine how that must feel?
The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck.
I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances.
So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved.
So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C.
They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home.
So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget.
She had to be rushed to the hospital.
By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out.
They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her.
Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD!
God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done.
If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view.
It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be.
If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

Big resignation from the Biden administration - an extremely powerful one at that. This section, in particular, struck hard - read it and read it again.

“Because the hardest part of the past six months was feeling totally alone like I was the only one disturbed by the footage from Gaza. The only one who felt like a participant, not just a passive observer, in the destruction there. For six months, I never heard anyone speak about the war in those terms, ever. I felt like I was living in an alternate universe.”

[gha*da 𓋹 @ghayo0da]

“People in Rafah are being evacuated” TO WHERE? There is literally no where they can be evacuated to now. Rafah was the evacuation zone. They even closed the borders to Egypt so those trying to seek refuge there can’t even do so.

I’m sick to my stomach.

[Dr. Koby Bryan Hansen @KobysKing]

Holy shit... UCR admin has agreed to all of the demands made by UCR Students for Justice in Palestine 🇵🇸🍉