The Lyric Essay: Where Poetry Meets Prose (Meets Pride)!
Facilitated by Julie Marie Wade
Date: 6/20/26, 1-3pm (EST)
In this Pride Month workshop, we'll read together from assorted flash lyric essays that exemplify some of the most memorable features of the genre written by contemporary queer lyric essayists and their allies. We'll write in response to the invitations, permissions, and prompts gleaned from these essays, and workshop 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.
*Workshops hosted by Small Harbor Publishing serve as both creative spaces and fundraising initiatives. Facilitators receive 60% of ticket proceeds, while the remaining 40% supports SHP’s mission to support authors and sustain operations. All workshops are available at $15 or $25, whichever works for you. A limited number of BIPOC scholarships are available — please email operations@smallharborpublishing for additional information.
Julie Marie Wade is the author of 22 volumes of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the new memoir Other People's Mothers (University Press of Florida, 2025). Other recent work includes Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla as the winner of the 2023 Anhinga Prize in Poetry, The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 (Small Harbor Editions, 2025), co-authored with Denise Duhamel, Fisk, By Analogy (CutBank Prose Chapbook Series, 2025), and the nonfiction novella, The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize. A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.