Jennifer Simpson 
At the end of the Wizard of Oz while Glenda the Good Witch waves her magic wand Dorothy clicks her ruby red slippers and chants these words: “There’s no place like home.” “There’s no place like home.” “There’s no place like home.” It’s a beautiful scene. It speaks to learning the lesson of appreciating home … Read more
A metaphor is symbolic of something else. It is definitely a great literary tool to describe something. Sue William Silverman talks about finding the metaphors of your life and in her latest memoir, How to Survive Death and other Inconveniences she likens that time in life as a road trip…. I would say for me, … Read more
A poem as lovely as a tree….I’m always fascinated by words, how a word, even one we think everyone will understand in the same way, in a different person will recall a certain image unfamiliar to you. I grew up near the beach, for example. For me, a tree means a palm tree or a … Read more
Hopefully you’ve seen our contest to win Sue William Silverman‘s new book How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences. I think you will find her work, and her stories, really speaks to women writers. And listened to our podcast featuring Sue. If you’re like me, you may have really started to think about metaphors… and … Read more
This month our featured writer is Sue William Silverman. In fact, episode 3 of our podcast features our chat with Sue! And our Plume Petite Patreon supporters will receive our August digital edition with Sue’s letter of encouragement and some of Sue’s creative work. If you’re not familiar with her as an author and teacher, … Read more
On this episode of Plume: A Writer’s Companion podcast, Melanie & Jennifer dig into the infamous Harper’s Letter; share a book review of Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward’s memoir; chat about Stacey Abrams’ new book; and discuss their current writing projects. They also chat with Suzanne Richardson, a talented writer who is working on a memoir about … Read more
For our first as yet unnamed podcast Melanie and I (Jennifer) had a conversation with our July Featured Writer, Christina Socorro Yovovich. We had a great conversation about writing and parenting during this pandemic and the challenges of writing when you’ve been diagnosed with bi-polar disorder. Here are links to some of the things we … Read more
I’m not sure how I became Facebook friends with Sue Silverman; I rarely accept friend requests from people I’ve not actually met in person. I do know several friends who’ve studied with Sue and sing her praises loudly. Maybe it was her generosity in sharing information about writing and publishing on one of The Binders … Read more
We are super excited to announce a new regular column—you may recall just a few short months ago (or was it years ago?) we featured the wonderfully talented Rebecca Aronson (April 2020). She is not only a talented poet but she has been running the coolest literary event in Albuquerque, Bad Mouth, featuring all genre … Read more
