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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Season 3, Episode 1: A Novel in Progress, A Conversation with Melanie Unruh To kick off Season 3, Plumesters Sam and Dawn are turning the tables on their fellow co-host, Melanie Unruh, the “Mother of Plume,” and talking to her about writing novels, sticking with large projects, and the founding of Plume. This is a podcast episode full of writerly encouragement and community, so if this weird pandemic time has left you looking for more support with your writing practice, come join us. You’ll find some nourishment here.Members of our Plume Patreon also receive a bonus episode this month featuring Melanie’s reading from her novel-in-progress, At the Rim of Vision, mentioned in this episode. Membership tiers range from $2 to $10/month and include access to featured writers’ bonus content (including a recording of authors reading of their work and writing prompts inspired by featured writers), a weekly Zoom writing group, and the Plume Slack community, where we share monthly writing challenges, writing support, and more. Interested? Visit our Plume Patreon page to join us.We hope you enjoy our new season of Plume. Look for Plume: A Writer’s Podcast on your favorite app. Stay tuned! Really, we’re so excited about what’s coming up next. — Dawn, Sam, & MelanieAbout Our Featured WriterMelanie Unruh has an MFA in fiction from the University of New Mexico. Her writing has appeared in and is forthcoming in The Meadow, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Boiler, New Ohio Review, Post Road, Sixfold, Philadelphia Stories, and Cutthroat, among others. She co-founded Plume: A Writer’s Companion, a community for women and non-binary writers, which has now branched out into Plume: A Writer’s Podcast. At present, she’s working on a YA novel, a short story collection, and some weird poems about bones. When she’s not writing or teaching, she enjoys drinking a good cup of chai, listening to audiobooks, smashing the patriarchy, and spending time with her kids. Visit her website to learn more.
