Julie Marie Wade
New Poetry & Prose in Spring 2025!
AWP 2025, March in L.A.
*I'll be chairing and presenting on a panel called "Hybrid Forms, Hybrid Selves: Queer and Feminist Possibilities of the Prose Poem" with K. Iver, Sophie Khlar, and Dawn Lundy Martin at the Association for Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, March 27th from 10:35-11:50 AM. Los Angeles Convention Center, Level 2, Room 503.
*I'll be reading from The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020, co-authored with Denise Duhamel, at an off-site reading on Thursday, March 27th at 7:00 PM at With Love Market & Cafe, 1969 S. Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90007.
With Love Market & Cafe& C
1969 S Vermont Ave
*I'll be signing copies of The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020, co-authored with Denise Duhamel, with Denise Duhamel at the AWP Book Fair (Harbor Editions/ Small Harbor Editions table, Los Angeles Convention Center Level One) on Friday, March 28th from 2:00-3:00 PM.
*I'll be reading from my lyric essay, "Synesthesia: Twister Edition," which appears in the new issue of Fourth Genre, on Friday, March 28th from 6:00-8:00 PM at Bonaventure Brewing Company on the fourth floor of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, 404 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071. This is part of an off-site event that includes readings by recent contributors to Fourth Genre, Under the Gum Tree, River Teeth, and Hippocampus Magazine.
*I'll be signing copies of The Mary Years at the AWP Book Fair (Texas Review Press table, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level One) on Saturday, March 29th from 12:00-1:00 PM.
New News, Good News
Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize, was named a finalist for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Nonfiction, the 2024 BIG OTHER Nonfiction Book Prize, the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Prize for the Art of the Essay.
The Mary Years has been the subject of several recent interviews, including one with Chris Hewitt at Minnesota Star-Tribune, Leslie Pietrzyk at Work In Progress, and Travis Cohen & Michael Cuervo at Gulf Stream Magazine:
http://www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2024/10/tbr-mary-years-by-julie-marie-wade.html
https://gulfstreamlitmag.com/category/issue-35/
It was a joy to read poems from Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018) alongside Denise Duhamel at the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Thursday, January 9, 2025. Here's the recording of our poetry readings and conversation about poetry, pedagogy, lyric essay, and collaboration with St. Petersburg Poet Laureate Helen Pruitt Wallace and the lively audience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmyPOhoT8Vw
Old News, Good News
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Here's a video of me 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.
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.
