I met Felecia because we teach at the same community college. Our first real conversation was when I agreed to sub a fiction class for her. My department is large and I admit that I’m not overly social, but as soon I started talking with Felecia, my first thought was Why haven’t I been talking … Read more
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
Our featured writer for October is Atlanta-based poet Danielle Hanson. I met Danielle in the spring at the AWP Conference in San Antonio. It was such a strange, upside-down time at this event that was half-empty as we straddled the line between before and after COVID really took hold in the U.S., so it was … Read more
I’m someone who needs to get lost in a task or project. I need time to mull, to drift, to dig in and forget about everything else in my life. I put on music, fix myself some tea, and get in the zone. This is particularly true when I write. Once I had kids, this … Read more
Jennifer is a writer and teacher from New Mexico. Her memoir essays have appeared in journals including Creative Nonfiction and Ascent (this essay was nominated for a Pushcart Prize), among others, and a story she worked on appeared on NPR’s This American Life. She is working on her first book, a memoir. Jennifer blogs about her writing process and the elongated, tortoise-like dip … Read more
A guest post by Cassie McClure The long walks frame our days during the quarantine. It starts the day and ends the day. My dog has become slimmer; I have not. While discussing the abrupt end of the school year for my daughter during one of the walks, I told my mom about a recent … Read more
A few months ago when stay-at-home orders began all over the country, we started a Zoom support group for women and non-binary writers. It has been such an empowering experience and we have gotten to know some truly amazing people from all over the country in such a short span of time. One of those … Read more
Christina Socorro Yovovich is a writer I met in the MFA program at The University of New Mexico. We took a creative nonfiction workshop together, and I was so moved by her writing and by the way she was able to talk about her life so openly. She was also one of those multi-talented writers … Read more
So far 2020 has been … I don’t even know. We started our 2nd year with all kinds of ideas for the future then a pandemic that has thrown our whole Plume plans into… we don’t know. We do know we’re still focusing on our mission, which may now be more important than ever, to … Read more
I met Rebecca years ago because we both teach writing at a community college in Albuquerque. In the fall, I actually took her online poetry class and loved it (and if you know me, you know I’ll write almost anything but poetry, but this class gave me a new appreciation for all that goes into … Read more