Our mission is to build a supportive writing community for women and non-binary writers. We write. We share inspiration. We encourage. Together, we create an energizing community space for writers:
- Plume: A Writer’s Podcast: Our podcast features successful women and non-binary writers, from emerging writers to bestselling novelists and award-winning poets. Our conversations and literary roundtables showcase hard-working talented writers, as we seek advice, insight, and inspiration to bring us back to our collective community. Along the way, our goal is to help writers believe in their voices and projects.
- Our Weekly Drop-in Zoom Group: Now in its third year, this is a virtual drop-in support group, where writers check in about current projects and share writing challenges and triumphs. We also write together in response to a new writing prompt each week.
- Our Plume Slack Channel: This is an online virtual space where women and non-binary writers can share resources, ask questions, connect with other writers, share writing prompts and projects, and offer and receive support in a safe, private space.
- Plume’s Monthly Accountability Group: Plume’s newest community-building addition, the Accountability Group, is designed for writers tackling large-scale writing projects. We meet to set goals, discuss strategies, offer encouragement, and help hold ourselves and each other accountable.
Through Plume’s literary community, we seek to uplift, showcase, and encourage women and non-binary writers wherever they are on their creative writing journey. We’re here to fan each other’s flames.
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Crystal K. Odelle
Our fall episode of Plume: A Writer’s Podcast is out now, and we are so excited for you to hear from the lovely, brilliant Crystal K. Odelle. In this episode, Sam and Melanie talk with Crystal about flash prose, trans identity, the blurred lines between fiction and nonfiction, liminal spaces, chapbook publishing, RPG writing, and more! Along the way, Crystal speaks beautifully about the intimate work involved in revision, and the long path a story can take on the way to becoming a flash fiction. Listen now on Buzzsprout or wherever you get your podcasts.Please be sure to check out Crystal’s GoFundMe, too!Crystal K. Odelle (they/she) is a queer trans writer, chapbooks editor at Newfound, and author of the novel Goodnight. Their flash stories have appeared in Gertrude, Passages North, Peach Mag, [PANK], Hobart, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Crystal was a Tin House Scholar and has been nominated for Best of the Net, and they write RPGs at Feverdream Games.LinksCrystal’s websiteCrystal’s GoFundMeQueer Phenomenology by Sarah AhmedGloria AnzaldúaOliver Baez BendorfJoy CastroI Love Dick by Chris KrausLook Who’s Morphing by Tom ChoThe TransLash podcast with Imara JonesPostcolonial Love Poem by Natalie DiazTroubling the LineWe Want It All
