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.
Visit our Patreon page to learn more about Plume’s affordable membership. Our podcast is available for free on all major podcast platforms.
Become a Plume Patron. Get access to our exclusive online writing community on Slack, bonus podcast content, and more.
Crystal K. Odelle
Hello, Plumers! Our August/September edition has just shipped, which means we’re hard at work on October’s offerings! Plume’s next featured creative writer is Tanaya Winder, a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. Tanaya is a literary force to be reckoned with, and we’re so excited for you to get to know her and her work. We hope you enjoy the interview! Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Tanaya Winder: I suppose I really felt like a writer after my first book got published and people from my own reservation community, other Indigenous people from their communities, and other folks from different backgrounds told me that my words resonated with them. The first time one of the elder in my hometown (where I gave my first book reading for my first published book) said she stayed up all night reading my book and it reminded her of her and her husband when they were younger. The fact that she saw herself in my work made me feel like I was a writer. P: Where do you get your ideas? TW: My ideas come to me in dreams, in between sips of coffee, looking at the clouds in the rise and descent of flight, and in the interacitons I have with all of the youth, my peers, and elders I meet on the road. I get my ideas from living. P: Where do you write? TW: I write literally everwhere. I write on planes, on the road (if I’m the passenger), in coffee shops, and at home after work. Sometimes I’ll write on my laptop, in a notebook, and even on napkins or post-it notes; it all depends on what I have around me on the top. P: Do you have any writing rituals?TW: Not at all. I usually just go with my gut and write when the words come to me. Sometimes I’ll need to motivate by making coffee or listening to a writing playlist, but I wouldn’t call any of what I do writing rituals. For me, writing itself is a ritual. P: How supportive is your local community for writers? TW: I travel so much that I’m not really able to engage in a local community of writers and I don’t really feel a part of the community where I am currently living. I honestly … Read more
