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!
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.
THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2026:
*Virtual haibun workshop for the Poetry Society of Tennessee
Saturday, August 8, Time TBA
Old Form, New Form: The Elegant and Elastic Reprisal of the Haibun
Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694), who popularized the haiku in 17th century Japan, also created a prosimetric form known as the haibun. In contemporary American poetry, the haibun is enjoying an exciting upsurge in popularity and innovation, as reflected in the work of poets like Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Tamiko Beyer, Brenda Hillman, and Maureen Seaton. This workshop will introduce writers to the haibun and several examples of its variants, including stacked, inverted, and "burning" (created by torrin a. greathouse) versions. After reading and considering multiple haibun, participants will have a chance to write and share.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of writers.
*Reading and conversation at MAD Arts with Ana Maria Caballero moderated by Yaddyra Peralta, Saturday, August 15, 2026, TIme TBA, Dania Beach, Florida
Ana Maria Caballero and Julie Marie Wade will read from their new books, Material and Quick Change Artist, respectively. Caballero will also present her multimedia poetic installations at MAD, advocating on behalf of poetry’s participation in the visual and new media arts. As a beloved South Florida professor of poetry, Wade will dive into how creative writing education might evolve to include a wider range of mediums in their programs and share her experiences collaborating with digital artists.
*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
*Featured presenter at Sanibel Island Writers Conference
Thursday, November 5-Saturday, November 7, 1:30-4:30 PM daily, Sanibel Island, Florida
Three Faces of the Fourth Genre:
Each day of workshop we'll explore a different sub-genre of creative nonfiction. The first day we'll focus on writing coming-of-age memoir, the nonfiction bildungsroman; the second day we'll explore the lyric essay, a more experimental approach to writing self and world; and on the final day, we'll plumb the possibilities of speculative nonfiction, sometimes also known as "surreal memoir," which brings together elements from both more traditional memoir and the lyric essay.
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.
