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Legalize Lit Book Fair by Hannah Eko

  • WYllOW 2622 South Robertson Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90034 United States (map)

Join Hannah Eko and the Lit Club for a book fair at WYllOW

Let's unite in celebration of the invaluable contributions made by women and nonbinary authors, BIPOC writers, and all those who boldly express themselves from the margins. As we recognize the immense power of words to challenge the status quo and forge meaningful connections, we cannot overlook the role that cannabis can play in elevating the experience of reading and writing.

Event Flow:

  • 2pm Doors Open

  • 2pm - 7pm Book Fair

  • 4pm Special Guest Feature Reader + Gift Bag Giveaway

  • 5pm Special Guest Feature Reader + Gift Bag Giveaway II

  • 6pm Special Guest Feature Reader + Gift Bag Giveaway III

  • 6-8pm DJ + Chill

Tickets:

  • General Admission $10 General Admission

  • VIP $55 + a copy of Honey is the Knife book

HANNAH OLABOSIBE SHOKOYA EKO is a Nigerian-American eldest daughter who never became a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. Like a true rebel, she attended five years of military school and graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy, during which she completed a thesis on Black ethnomusicology (“I Too Sing America”). After serving as a US Coast Guard officer, she embarked on her longtime (read repressed) writer dreams. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Fiction from the University of Pittsburgh.

Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Buzzfeed, Bust, b*tch, Pigeon Pages NYC, the Dear Black Girl anthology, Fractured Lit, and Aster(ix) magazines. She is a 2021 California Arts Council Emerging Fellow, a 2019 recipient of the Advancing Black Arts Grant, a Peter R. Taylor Kenyon Fellow, Tin House Scholar, and VONA (Voices Of Our Nations) alum. She has taught writing workshops at Catapult, Smith College, Bloomsburg University, Pomona College, Girls Write Now, Ripped Bodice, Accent Society, and at White Whale, an independent bookstore based in Pittsburgh.

She is founder of the creative community and event series The Lit Club, co-founder of the Los Angeles based reading series Palindrome alongside Tanya Shirazi-Galvez, and leads the The Emerging Authors Mentorship for writers who want to start and finish their books with peace, power, and pleasure.

Learn more about author & host, Hannah Eko: hannahoeko.com

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