Creative writing anthology “The Plume” is being published for the first time, co-edited by Writer’s Nest Club leaders Mira Sridharan ‘26 and Adeline Newby ‘26.

Sridharan noticed Aerial arts magazine in her freshman year and applied to be on the board, though it disbanded sophomore year.

After co-founding Branson’s creative writing Writer’s Nest with Newby, Sridharan and Newby were inspired to bring an arts publication back to the Branson community. Sridharan said the Plume is “a literary magazine that will hopefully be published digitally and in-print by the end of the year.” 

“The idea was to get creative writing submissions and to get art that we can pair with writing,” said Sridrahan.

Writer Annalise Lightfoot ‘27 said, “I saw,  all the posters and stuff […] I thought, ‘Oh this is a cool theme’…maybe I should submit a piece of writing from my English class that I liked a lot and I thought it aligned with the theme of ‘The Plume’” when asked about her submission process.

The theme for this year’s edition is Rebirth and Renewal which Sridrahan thought would “be a good theme for the first issue, the theme of coming into oneself and the spring would be fitting.”The epigraph is “”The pieces I am, she gather them and give them right back to me in all the right order” from Beloved by Toni Morrison.

When asked about what to expect, Sridharan said, “People should look out and be excited!”