THE LIT CLUB
where weed & words are sacred
We are a literary salon, creative community, and event series.
The Lit Club supports harm reduction efforts, conscious cannabis and wine brands, indie bookstores, emerging artists, and social justice organizations like Yoga Roots on Location, Pop-Hop Books and Print, The Salt Eaters Books, and The Prison Book Program. The Lit Club has been sponsored by Garden Society, Pure Beauty, Her Highness NYC, POET, Nasha, and Gelato.
The LIT CLUB Mission:
UPLIFT WOMEN’S VOICES: center and celebrate the voices of women and nonbinary storytellers
NORMALIZE CANNABIS: consume cannabis consciously as a tool for creativity, healing, and play
HEAL AND CREATE IN COMMUNITY: provide a consistent space for book and cannabis lovers to connect & grow
The LIT CLUB Vision:
Lit Club chapters in every legal weed city in the world, building a global community of readers, artists, creatives, and cannabis lovers! The Lit Club expands into the world of wine, opening up new collaborations, fun times, and possibilities.
Hannah Eko, founder of The Lit Club:
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Favorite Weed Strains:
Mother’s Milk,
Jungle Cake,
Forbidden Fruit
Healing is revolutionary and pleasure is holy. Weed and words have been viciously controlled, stigmatized, and banned. In The Lit Club universe, we reimagine our relationship to ourselves and each other through the powerful combination of weed and words.
THE LIT CLUB SALON: BOOK CLUB + WRITING CIRLE
An invite-only monthly community of weed and book lovers meet to write together and to have deep conversations inspired by our Book of the Month. We are a chill space—you don’t have to read the book or smoke cannabis to join us, just bring yourself.
The Lit Club Salon is held every last Sunday in Los Angeles or virtually via Zoom.
2026 LIT CLUB CALENDAR
JANUARY - Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless by Maria Pinto*
FEBRUARY - How to Be Unmothered by Camille U. Adams*
MARCH - Dead in Long Beach, California by Venita Blackburn
APRIL - How To Commit A Post-Colonial Murder by Nina McConigley
MAY - I Love You, Don't Die by Jade Song
JUNE - Black Wave by Michelle Tea*
JULY - Fish Tales by Nettie Jones
AUGUST -The Stars and the Blackness Between Them by Junauda Petrus
SEPTEMBER - Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C. Ortiz*
OCTOBER - The Witch by Marie NDiaye
NOVEMBER - Thunder Song by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
DECEMBER - Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
* = the author is joining us in person!
PAST LIT CLUB EXPERIENCES:
READ & OUID: A WEED AND WORDS READING PARTY
Read & Ouid is a reading party with weed as cherry on top.
Bring your favorite book or journal (or buy one from the indie bookstore). Delight in the comfortable reading nooks provided. Enjoy the snacks and complimentary cannabis. We read for three hours and hold a loose discussion for one hour after.
The Lit Club hosted the very first Read & Ouid in an independent bookstore in Highland Park on 420 2025 which also happened to be Easter Sunday. Comfy pillows and blankets. Earplugs for the ones who wanted them. Sweet chocolate rice krispy treats by Eeesh’s Pieces. A chill, yet potent discussion. Magical connections. Let’s do it again.
FLOWER HOUR: A WRITERS’ CAFE AND COWORKING SPACE
Flower Hour is a weekly writers' café and coworking space all rolled into one. Artsy, relaxed, flexible yet regular.
Designed for cannabis-positive artists, writers, and creatives, Flower Hour offers a nurturing environment where ideas flourish, writing prompts are explored, and connections are made.
The Lit Club hosted forty sessions of Flower Hour across a 10-month, October 2023 to July 2024 run at The Artist Tree in West Hollywood. Every Wednesday from 12-4 pm. Thank you to the team at The Artist Tree and how inspiring this space was to create in on a regular basis. People from all walks of life came to Flower Hour to work, journal, write, color, daydream, network, have a self-care date, or sometimes just to get out of their usual routine—and I am thankful for every last one of you (though I must give a special “rosy” shout out to Flower Hour regulars Donita and Madison, you guys are the best.)
LEGALIZE LIT : AN ELEVATED BOOK FAIR
Legalize Lit takes the traditional book fair and gives it a delightful twist. Think the Scholastic Bookfair meeting your favorite weed party. Legalize Lit is a cannabis-infused book fair where cannabis products and weed strains are paired with banned books.
Like pairing Fight Club with a dab of a bodyhigh indica.
Or I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings with a relaxed sativa ginger tea.
The Lit Club hosted a mini Legalize Lit at WYLLOW, a WOC owned cannabis dispensary on June 22nd, 2024. We celebrated legendary Los Angeles sci-fi writer Octavia Butler. We chose three of her books and paired them with three cannabis products stocked at WYIIOW. Thank you to Lade and J.R. who came all the way from the SGV to attend (with a very excited pit bull named Kovu). Thank you to the WYIIOW customers who were receptive to learning about the connections between weed and words on a random Saturday afternoon.
PUFF PUFF : THE MAGAZINE AND INNER TEEN GIRL HEALING PORTAL
Puff Puff Magazine is a the irreverent yet tender magazine and event series dedicated to the rebellious spirit of your inner teen girl. It’s a space where literary women and non-binary writers and readers revisit the pop culture that shaped us, laugh at our awkward phases, heal our relationship to weed and words, and find space to follow our dreams.
The launch of Puff Puff Magazine was a gorgeous day, hosted at WYIIOW on August 19th, 2023. Our magazine contains the work of 2 visual and 2 literary artists. There was a beautiful reading by LA writer (and my dear friend) Tanya Shirazi-Galvez. A curated “puff puff” bar (pre-rolls plus African donuts). LA independent bookstores The Ripped Bodice and Octavia’s Bookshelf sold amazing books—all written by women or nonbinary authors. Cannabis brands Queen Mary, Cannakits, and Diahni brought their deliciousness. Our gift bags were generously sponsored by Gelato, Garden Society, and OMI Bodycare. Puff Puff magazine even won a Design Award :)
