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.
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- 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
Plume’s upcoming August/September mailing will feature Judy Reeves, a dynamic writer, teacher, and writing practice provocateur. Judy has been a delight to work with, and we’re so excited to share her writing with you! Check out our interview with her to find out why she’s a writer you don’t want to miss! Plume: When did you know you were a writer? Judy Reeves: I remember the first thrill of using words to create story when I was in elementary school. The brief sentences scrawled from spelling words in my Big Chief tablet gave me my first taste of “writing.” Then I knew I would become “Brenda Starr, Reporter” and travel around the world, finding stories and writing my adventures for a newspaper. Then it was in high school writing plays and poetry and winning a place in a city-wide student poetry workshop, then it was a career as a commercial writer in newspapers, radio and television, then PR, marketing, and advertising. But it wasn’t until I was fifty years old and committed to a daily writing practice that I could say the words, “I’m a writer.” P: Where do you get your ideas? JR: Sometimes ideas come during writing practice sessions when characters just show up, other times an image—the woman alone on her high-rise balcony watering her plants, the mother with her newborn infant in a Target parking lot, the stranger I met on a train. Voyeuristic walks in my neighborhood at dusk when the cats come home and the lights come on. Dreams. Memories. Eavesdrops. A photograph. A line in a poem. P: Where do you write? JR: Mostly I write at home, first draft, by hand, usually at my kitchen table. But I am also a writer-in-community, so I will often meet writing pals at a cafe or a study room at the library or we’ll go away to a retreat place where we’ll write alone/together. P: Do you have any writing rituals? JR: Before I begin my morning writing practice, I light a candle, read from an inspiring book or some poetry, journal a page or two, and then begin. So there’s much settling in and setting up. I remember long ago reading One Continuous Mistake—Four Nobel Truths for Writers, by Gail Sher, in which she suggests, “Before you being each writing session, dedicate your writing and your intention to write. Offer up the effort and the fruit of this effort so that it no longer belongs to you.” I … Read more
