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

Julia Halprin Jackson, smiling in a striped shirt

An Interview with Julia Halprin Jackson

I first met Julia Halprin Jackson in the spring of 2005 in Granada, Spain. We were both in college and enrolled in a study abroad program, and spent the next five months learning about this beautiful city and country, as explorers and writers. Julia has a very generous spirit, which I can see clearly in her writing (And she actually writes about Spain! Now I’m wondering why I never really did…). Though I haven’t seen her in many years, I’ve always felt a connection to her through our shared love of creative writing. We are so excited to have Julia as December’s featured Plume writer. Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Julia Halprin Jackson: I’ve loved writing ever since I could hold a pencil. I’ll always love Thursdays because in second grade, Mrs. Stroeve made them “creative writing” days.

 
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Writing Moms: A Roundtable Discussion with Julia Halprin Jackson, Christina Socorro Yovovich, and Jennifer Jordán Schaller

May 25, 2021