On 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!"

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.

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."

On April 15, 2025, Midway Journal published Julie Elise Landry's poem "PHOBIATA" in Volume 19, Issue 2 of the online magazine.

Midway Journal describes its namesake—a midway—as "a place of boundary crossing," and work published in the journal "aims to complicate and question the boundaries of genre, binary, and perspective. [The work] offers surprises and ways of re-seeing, re-thinking, and re-feeling: a veritable banquet of literary fare."

Landry's poem "PHOBIATA" uses field composition, enjambment, and distressing imagery to instill a sense of disorientation and anxiety in the reader, creating leaps in perspective while contemplating bodies, labor, and estrangement.

On October 1, 2024, Hearth & Coffin Literary Journal published Julie Elise Landry's poems "Artemis Revealed at Gargaphië" and "Director of People & Operations" in the online journal's Vol. 4, No. 1 "Gossip Horror" issue.

Hearth & Coffin "places priority on provocative, exploratory, and accessible works that thrill and open the minds of readers." The "Gossip Horror" issue features poetry, fiction, and non-fiction "written as though you're sharing a freaky story you heard through the grapevine about your neighbor, the woods on the edge of town, the Oval Office - whatevs."

Landry's poem "Artemis Revealed at Gargaphië" imagines the transformation and death of the mythological figure Actaeon from the perspective of the goddess Artemis. The poem was directly inspired by the essay "The Gender of Sound" by Anne Carson in her collection Glass, Irony, and God.

"Director of People & Operations" likewise focuses on a surreal transformation—one that befalls an office employee, as related by her manager.