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 met Sarah when I was in grad school and she was an undergrad at The University of New Mexico. My department had just started a creative writing mentorship program and I was assigned to mentor Sarah. I still have a vivid memory of this tall, bubbly, beautiful young woman coming up to me at the café where we had our first meeting. I knew right then we were going to have a blast working together. I’m so glad we kept in touch over the years, as not only is she a fun person to be around, but it has been a joy to see her grow into her writing. I’ve always found Sarah’s work to be unique and full of quirky charm. She’s our featured writer for June, and we hope you enjoy our interview of her!Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Sarah Mina Osman-Mikesell: I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was ten years old. I had always found that writing came very easily to me; it was like breathing. I had also enjoyed reading. I loved disappearing into a story. It was a way to escape the chaos of my home life. A teacher of mine, Mrs. Schmalfeld, encouraged me to become a writer. The first story I ever wrote was called “The Rainbow Girls” and was essentially a rip-off of “Sailor Moon”. Each girl had a different power that coincided with a color of the rainbow, and the main character was terrible at math (just like me). When I was 11, we had to enter an essay contest for the Elk Lodge. The prompt was “What does the pledge of allegiance mean to you?” I thought it was rubbish, so I wrote about how my dad, who is from Egypt, came to America for better opportunities. To my surprise, I won, and I won 100 dollars. It was at that moment that I realized I could make a career out of this. I haven’t stopped writing since.P: Where do you get your ideas?SMOM: I write a mix of fiction and non-fiction. My fiction tends to be a combination of magic realism and satire. My ideas for fiction tend to come from weird things people tell me or ridiculous ideas we come up with. For instance, my short story, “True American” (now published in Argot Magazine) was inspired by an assignment … Read more
