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
A Year in PlumeIt’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, to hosting local events, to building our online community, and everything in between, we have put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into this endeavor. They say entrepreneurship is no joke, and it isn’t! But we believe in Plume and in our mission to support and encourage women writers, and we are over-the-moon proud to continue on this journey.Our WritersWe wouldn’t have Plume: A Writer’s Companion without the talented and successful women writers that have generously shared their work with us and our community over the past year. Twelve women, all unique and talented, have inspired us with their creative writing and letters of encouragement. I am always so excited when an upcoming featured writer sends us her materials, and we get to take the first peek at what we’ll be sharing with our subscribers. There’s something magical about women supporting women through creativity. KickstarterSpeaking of the letters! Plume is going to put out its first ever anthology in the fall. This book will consist of all the letters of encouragement from our first 12 writers (and as a bonus, a letter from me and a letter from Jennifer!), as well as some writing prompts. We’re Kickstarting this project so we can publish the anthology to share with anyone who didn’t sign up for a subscription, or missed out until now. It’s also a great way to have these fabulous letters all in one place! In addition to going towards design and printing costs, this fundraiser will help us to pay our contributors. Please consider donating, and pass it on to your writerly friends, too! You’ll see on our Kickstarter page that, depending on your donation, we offer various fun rewards in addition to receiving a copy of the anthology. Thank you! Here’s the link to the fundraiser:The anthology will be out in October, which is a perfect time to start thinking about holiday gifts (including for yourself!).Happy writing, friends!
