Women Who Write: Mercedez Holtry

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I don’t know Mercedez personally, but I know of her. She’s a superstar in the poetry slam community. One of our Plume subscribers, Michelle Jewett, responded to a call on our newsletter for suggestions for our “Women Who Write” column–our goal is to feature as many kinds of women writers as we can find. Michelle … Read more

A Plume Anthology

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A Year in Plume It’s been a year now since Jennifer and I started Plume. What a wild ride! From first putting our early ideas together, to entering the business plan competition, to launching a Kickstarter to get the venture off the ground, to choosing featured writers, to packing and shipping our first Plume packages, … Read more

An Interview with Erika Wurth

I met Erika when she was living in Albuquerque on sabbatical from her academic job. She quickly found her way into the writing community here for good reasons: She is funny and quirky and smart. Really smart. And talented–as a poet and a novelist. But what I have admired about her most is her tenacity … Read more

Journey through Monday Writers, Part 3

Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part three in a series of 5At Jennifer’s Monday Writing Session, you are first invited to listen to the seven rules. Rule number seven is that there are no rules. Also, we are allowed seven minutes to write stories. Maybe that’s why the vintage mirror in her space took me back … Read more

Journey through Monday Writers, Part 2

Guest post by Nathalie Bléser, part two in a series of 5 So let’s build the set. It’s Monday evening. Tonight the veil between worlds, between vivitos y muertitos (the living and the dead), is the thinnest. Magic already happens in the number of writers around the table: only three women have gathered in Jennifer’s … Read more