Poetry Book publication by June 2024!

My next poetry manuscript was accepted for publication by MoonPath Press. I’m thrilled that poet Lana Hechtman Ayers loved my manuscript. “Slow Now With Clear Skies.” It will be published by June 2024! 2023 Retrospective! Curator Priscilla Long choose me to be in the Jack Straw Writing Program. It was …

Jack Straw Videos! Readings!

Jack Straw Readings On May 18th I read my essay that was published in the Jack Straw Anthology, “Avoiding Burnout in a 365/12/7 Work Environment,” at Jack Straw. Watch it on their YouTube channel here! On May 29th I read my essay, “Babes with AIDS,” about the start of the Babes …

Jack Straw in Full Swing

The Jack Straw Anthology is published!!! Available at Open Books, at Jack Straw, and I have a few available as well; it contains my essay, “Avoiding Burnout in a 365/24/7 Work Environment,” presented in their studio reading on May 19th, it was livestreamed, so is available to watch on YouTube. …

Memoir, AWP, Poetry, & Three Anthologies

Memoir News I am so grateful to spend three and a half weeks as a Vashon Artist-in-Residence!! I had a room with a view! It started on March 27th, till I returned home on April 20th! I worked on my memoir manuscript tentatively titled: “Secrets & Life Stories of an …

Seventh Decade Shout Out!!

Congratulations to the new U.S. Poet Laureate: Ada Limón!!!  Her reading at the W.S. Merwin Conservatory in Honolulu was moving, listen to it here. Julene’s Memoir News! I completed a three-week Memoir Bootcamp with Allison K. Williams, author of Seven Drafts. It was an excellent workshop by a seasoned editor …

Entering the Fray! Vashon AIR!!

Is the COVID pandemic over? Some are acting like it; yet many who are immune compromised know that it is not over, people are still getting sick and even with the vaccines it is a risk for many. I’ve started venturing out with care, not traveling by plane, but staying …

Memoir Group Ceremony & Poetry Updates!!

Year-Long Creative NonFiction Manuscript Cohort 2021-2022 with Anne Liu Kellor  Completion, with Celebration Ceremony & Ritual on August 13th We met together in real time after a year meeting twice a month on Zoom; we did weekly homework assignments, had 1:1 meetings with Anne, four extensive feedback sessions—reading and reviewing …

Musing on Memoir!!

It is exciting when a small section of my memoir writing is accepted, especially when it is by a medical univeristy! The Muse McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, published my essay, “My Body: An Experiment in Longevity” in their Winter 2022 Issue 14. Working on my memoir with the …

2021 Poetry Accomplishments

The Literary Parrot is available on Amazon, it contains my poem, The Addition of Audience: A Meditation, from my book truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS. Dustin Pickering interviewed me on the Parrot Literary Corner podcast in July 2021. Listen here!   Poets Speaking to Poets: Echoes …

But You Don’t Look Sick

Anthology Now Available!! “But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and Super Heros Battling Invisible Illnesses” is available for purchase! 50% of royalties above production costs will be donated to organizations that support  individuals living with invisible illnesses. Two essays derived from my …