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
I’ve known Karin since 1984. I was her Spanish tutor in college. Since that time (where did the time go??) she has taught me so much and inspired me, and even saved my life when we hit a deer in Nebraska. I wrote an essay about it and she wrote a short story about it. Karin took me to my first writing workshop (at the old San Diego Writing Center) and my first Rainbow Gathering and got me a job at Woodstock II. She has always inspired me with her tenacity and passion and working so hard to do the things that matter, that make the world a better place for everyone. I’m so excited to feature her as a writer who has published her first novel, Falling From the Moon. PLUME: When did you know you were a writer? KZ: In elementary school when I published the “Tiffany Times” a newspaper that covered the events taking place on Tiffany Way in Chula Vista. Articles featured the latest tricks of neighborhood dogs, school events, and birthday parties. PLUME: Where do you get your ideas? KZ: Life experiences, buildings, artwork, nature, dreams, conversations. PLUME: How many ideas do you work on at any given time? KZ: Way too many PLUME: Where do you write? KZ: When I’m developing new work, I tend to write in bed, in nature, or at events. Once I have a first draft done, I work at my desk or on the living room floor with print outs scattered across the floor. PLUME: How do you balance time for writing with work, and other obligations? KZ: This is the million dollar question. There is no balance. Writing time comes out of sleep time, house cleaning time, and time I could be playing. in the 21st century The idea of balance between where our passions lie and the source of our paycheck does not exist for those of us who have to work for a living. PLUME: What have been the biggest influences on your writing? What you write about? Your life as a writer? KZ: I have been a voracious reader all my life. The magical worlds of Frank L. Baum and Walter Farley, TC Boyle’s fictionalized social satires are all in there with amazing books by Gish Jen and so many authors whose names I don’t remember but whose work has shaped me. Mythology fascinates me … Read more
