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From Honey to Knife: Writing Love Letters to Your Emo Feels
Friday, November 1
6-7:15 PM ET
virtual event; open to the public
including all mentees, mentors & members
Join Girls Write Now and Hannah Olabosibe Eko for an intimate exploration of the power of words with Honey Is the Knife and The Emo Love Letter. The Emo Love Letter is the official writing circle practice of The Lit Club, a cannabis-inspired event series, creative community, and book club at the intersection of art, healing, and pleasure justice.
During the Friday Night Salon experience, we will dive into the art of writing love letters to or from our emotions—embracing the full spectrum of our inner experience. Salon guests will learn surprising histories of our emotions, meet their feelings where they are, and use the love letter as a tool to navigate pain, pleasure, and everything in between.
To attend this event, create a Girls Write Now account and register for this event through the portal.
Meet the Teaching Artist
Hannah Eko
Hannah Shokoya Eko is a first-generation Nigerian-American first daughter who never became a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. She did however attend five years of military school and graduate from the US Merchant Marine Academy, during which she completed a thesis on Black ethnomusicology. After serving as a US Coast Guard officer for six years, she embarked on her longtime writer dreams. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Fiction from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 with university-level recognition for her fiction and nonfiction work. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Buzzfeed, Bust, b*tch, make/shift, Pigeon Pages NYC, 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, and at White Whale Bookstore. She is the creator of the salon-style writing movement Women, Writing, Weed & Wine, a founding member of the Portland WOC Zine Collective, co-founder of the Los Angeles based reading series Palindrome alongside Tanya Shirazi-Galvez, and leads the Honeyknife Academy: The Premiere Finishing School for Emerging Writers.
This event is open to:
all mentees, all mentors, program alum and the public