<![CDATA[Julie Elise Landry - News]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:38:39 -0500Weebly<![CDATA["Are You Sleeping?" selected for Scripts Unbound series]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMThttps://www.julieeliselandry.com/news/are-you-sleeping-selected-for-scripts-unbound-seriesJulie Elise Landry's play Are You Sleeping? was chosen for the 2026 Scripts Unbound reading series coordinated by the UNO Creative Writing Workshop (CWW) and the UNO School of the Arts (SOTA).

Scripts Unbound invites CWW/SOTA students to submit original work for consideration by a selection committee, and SOTA presents public readings of the chosen plays. After each reading, audience members provide feedback and answer questions from the Scripts Unbound host, describing their experiences of the work and suggesting considerations for revision.

Of the plays submitted for 2026, the selection committee chose four to be presented in the series.

In Landry's play, two cousins confront the irrevocable differences in their experiences of their family at the funeral of their grandmother—while the erratic spirit of their grandmother interjects and shares her own animated (re-animated!) opinions. Are You Sleeping? explores the subtle damage done amongst families and the difficulty of communicating those harms to one other.

The reading will be held March 16, 2026 at 7:00 PM in the UNO Nims Lab Theatre.
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]]><![CDATA[Publication News: Trampoline]]>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:00:00 GMThttps://www.julieeliselandry.com/news/publication-news-trampolineOn January 24, 2026, Trampoline published Julie Elise Landry's poem "Indistinguishable" in Issue #30.10 of the weekly online poetry journal.

Trampoline "veer[s] towards the beautiful and strange" when selecting poems for publication. "We want poems of anger and light. We want to be a space where the narrative, the lyric, and the experimental can mingle." 

Landry's poem "Indistinguishable," written for her longtime friend and fellow poet Maudie Bryant, examines the plasticity of self-image and the gendered social dynamics of early adulthood while celebrating a friendship rooted in subversion, thought, and noise.
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]]><![CDATA[Finalist: 2025 Patty Friedmann Writing Contest, Poetry]]>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://www.julieeliselandry.com/news/finalist-2025-patty-friedmann-writing-contest-poetryOn October 15, 2025, Julie Elise Landry's poem "How to Learn about Lizards after a Phobia" was named as a finalist in the LMNL Arts 2025 Patty Friedmann Writing Contest associated with the Words & Music literary festival hosted by One Book One New Orleans.

Only five poets were named finalists out of a record number of submissions.

Contest judge Andy Young selected a poem by Daniel W.K. Lee as the winner and poems by Nat Gove and Carole Greenfield as the runners-up.

"This was a very hard task!" Young said. "All of the finalists’ poems were so strong!"

Landry's poem "How to Learn about Lizards after a Phobia" draws on her experiences with overcoming a lifelong lizard phobia and then becoming incredibly curious about the lizards that once plagued her. Set in an online world of digital research, the poem reckons with the invasive brown lizards (anolis sagrei) driving the native green lizards (anolis carolinensi) of New Orleans into the trees and with the speaker's lingering memories of her own fear.

"I've drafted an entire chapbook about lizards, about this phobia," Landry said. "Most of those poems are interrelated, so I hope to see them published together one day—but this poem, I think, stands quite on its own!"
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On June 5, 2025, Julie Elise Landry became the new host and organizer for Silver Room, the online reading series for members of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing MFA community.

Silver Room was founded in 2024 by Samuel Cooley as a sister series to Gold Room, the in-person reading series for UNO.

Julie will coordinate and emcee virtual readings from students until she graduates in Spring 2026.
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On May 6, 2025, Vassar Review published Julie Elise Landry's poem "The House on Colbert Street" in Issue 10 of the annual print and digital magazine.

The call for submissions stated, “For our decadal issue, we seek pieces that interrogate superstructure, methods of transmission and omission, and the technical decisions that guide a work’s formal innovations... This year, we ask you to celebrate with us the lie, the liar, and the truths they uncover.”

Landry's poem "The House on Colbert Street" examines the ways that homes, families, and stories both create and contradict childhood memories. Upon accepting the poem, editors expressed being "especially taken with the piece's vivid atmosphere and evocative imagery."
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