Julie Marie Wade
New Poetry & Prose Published in Spring 2025!
Other People's Mothers released September 2, 2025
Quick Change Artist has won the silver medal for poetry in the 2026 Florida Book Awards!
THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN AUTUMN 2026:
*Reading for South Florida Poetry Journal alongside Miami-Dade Poet Laureate Nicole Tallman on Thursday, October 22, at 7 PM EST. You can register here to attend the reading and open mic here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/8A1mtGvDRKWLm3TuMrHaIA#/registration
*Presenting my memoir Other People's Mothers and my poetry collection Quick Change Artist at the Louisville Book Festival, Saturday, October 24, 10 AM - 5 PM, Louisville, Kentucky, Kentucky International Convention Center in Downtown Louisville
At 3 PM on Saturday, October 24, I'll be reading from Other People's Mothers on this panel for the Kentucky Women's Book Festival (inside the Louisville Book Festival, Room L010):
The Inner Lives of Women: History, Fiction, Memoir
In this session, four writers share work from their recent books centered on the lives of historical and contemporary women. In The Gendering of Madness in Victorian and Modern England and America, Leslie Harper analyzes the gendered construction of mental illness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how women like Elizabeth Packard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Virginia Woolf protested the diagnoses and treatments for mental illness in their publications. The women in Sherry Robinson’s Echo Her Lovely Bones are bound together by the letters they leave in the centuries-old house they inhabit—letters that are shaped as much by historical context as by each woman’s own life. Julie Hensley's Five Oaks braids the lives of three generations of southern women, all harboring secrets, who are drawn together one conflagratory summer at a lake cottage in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. Set in an insular, suburban community in 1980s-1990s Seattle, Other People's Mothers by Julie Marie Wade explores complex and contradictory embodiments of womanhood among the maternal role models from her youth. These readings will be followed by an audience Q&A.
*Serving on the Sanibel Island Writers Conference faculty: Lyric Essay Workshop on Thursday, November 5 and Friday, November 6, 1:30-4:30 PM, Sanibel Island, Florida
The Lyric Essay: Where Poetry and Memoir Meet
In this workshop, we'll read together from assorted flash lyric essays that exemplify some of the most memorable features of the genre. We'll write in response to the invitations, permissions, and prompts gleaned from these essays, and participants will be able to share emulations as they choose. Everyone will leave the workshop with recommendations for future reading and publications where they can send polished work.
Details, registration, and event schedule here:
Old News, Good News
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Here's a video of my reading my poem"When I Was Straight" for the FIU MFA faculty reading series:
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Check out a reading and interview I did with the Stonewall National Museum & Archives here.
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Take a look at my micro-memoir "Yentl," published in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction here.
In the summer of 2026, at the end of my 25th year of teaching, I was interviewed by Raymond Elman at ART SPEAK about my origin story as a writer and professor of creative writing. The complete interview is included in short video segments, which can be accessed by clicking this photo.
One of the happiest pieces of news I've received in recent months is that my hybrid-forms project P*R*I*D*E won the inaugural Hunger Mountain Chapbook Prize. It was released during June 2020 (Pride Month!) in a limited-edition volume (with stunning cover designed by Kelly McMahon) to honor the victims of the Pulse shooting by name and likeness.
“This collection of poetic microessays is the hybridity we need right now—lyric & narrative, real & imagined, fierce & tender, in love with the world & critical of it, so much fun & deadly serious. I admire Wade’s range of timbres, the ways this collage makes me feel validated & seen, & how much PRIDE makes me hopeful for a better future.”
—Erin Stalcup, Hunger Mountain Editor
For a short video demonstrating how perfect this book looks, click here.
And after this video inspires you to learn more about the book designer, check out May Day Studio in Montpelier, Vermont.
