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
It has been a strange and scary time to be alive for a while now, but particularly in the past four months. I try to think of the last time I hauled ass from work across town to pick up my son from school or the last café where I ordered a chai and wrote or the last late night movie I went to see by myself when I was able to get away, but I come up empty. Mundane moments seem just that until we re-examine them later in retrospect.Because of the way the world has changed in the past few months and because there honestly isn’t a realistic “end” in sight, we have revamped our entire business model. This week we shipped our last physical Plume subscriptions. It’s been bittersweet to see people posting about them, saying how much they’ve enjoyed getting our little doses of inspiration and self-care in the mail. But the writing was on the wall that we needed to make a change and we are nothing if not resourceful. We do have hopes to return to some physical products and mailings, but that won’t be anytime in the foreseeable future.For now, we are charting a new course for Plume in terms of our mediums, but not in terms of quality or mission. Our goal is still to inspire and encourage women and non-binary writers. As you may have seen on our social media accounts and even referenced on this blog, we have started a podcast. Twice a month, we chat about writing, books, relevant issues in the writing community, and we interview a successful woman or non-binary writer. The first interview is with our featured writer that month, and right now we’re lining up our (fabulous!) past featured writers for the second monthly interviews. It’s a good time, and we hope you’ll give us a listen! You can find the podcast under Plume: A Writer’s Companion on Apple, Spotify, Overcast, and many other podcast platforms (and if we’ve missed your preferred podcast app, please let us know!)We’ve also started a Patreon. If you’re unfamiliar with it, Patreon is a platform for creatives to build a community and to share their work. Right now we have two tiers: Plume Pal and Plume Petite. Plume Pal is $2/month, and you get a monthly shoutout on the podcast and membership in Plume’s exclusive Facebook group. Plume Petite … Read more
