WOMEN, WRITING, WEED & WINE

Write your book.

Find your people.

And create a beautiful life around your creativity.

A weekend writing retreat for women and nonbinary writers who want to create with more freedom, deepen their craft, understand their publishing options, and build real relationships with women writing books of their own.

Joshua Tree • Los Angeles

• Friday Meet-Up - 5–7 PM

• Saturday Retreat - 12–7 PM

• Sunday Reading & Reception - 12–3 PM

13 women & NB people only

Investment: $1,000

Maybe you’ve begun your book.

Maybe your book has been haunting your subconscious for years.

Maybe your creative life has quietly been receiving whatever scraps of time remain after everyone and everything else.

Maybe you’ve published before but you’re less certain about your new book and how that book finds readers, or how it can earn money without flattening everything interesting about it.

Come spend a day with women who understand.

You’ll leave with more than a lovely self-care day.

You’ll have a clearer sense of your next three to six months as a writer: what you’re writing, what support you need, and which publishing possibilities deserve your attention.

During this creative writing retreat you will:

  • Eat from a curated and delicious menu.

  • Sit with interesting women of depth and vision.

  • Drink expertly paired wine from women-owned vineyards.

  • Enjoy women-owned crafted cannabis as both creative tool and pleasure appetizer.

  • Talk about books and editing and desire and anxiety and whatever else wanders into the room.

During this retreat, you get to remember what happens when your imagination receives your full attention.

Come write from exactly where you are.

Welcome to Women, Writing, Weed & Wine.

Writing. Books. Food. Cannabis. Wine. Pleasure. Conversation.

[COME SIT WITH US - LOS ANGELES] - APR 24TH 2027

[COME SIT WITH US - JOSHUA TREE] - MAY 22ND 2027

Women, Writing, Weed & Wine is a weekend creative writing retreat inspired by the sage archetype of the Divine Feminine. This is a space created for women who want to go somewhere deeper with their writing—and who don't believe creativity has to feel like punishment to be taken seriously.

You do not have to produce 5,000 words.

You don't have to arrive with a manuscript.

You don't even have to call yourself a writer (yet).

You just need to know that there is something in you asking to be witnessed and written.

This is for writers doing something different...

Your book does not have to fit neatly on a shelf for you to want readers, income, and a future for your work.

You might be writing literary fiction, memoir, essays, or something you’re still learning how to describe.

You might come from a profession where everyone knows what you do, while the writer you’re becoming is searching for community.

Here, you will meet women who are writing books and asking some of the same questions you are:

  • How do I keep writing once I return to my Regular Life and my 9-5?

  • Which publishing path fits this book and the life I want?

  • How can my writing earn money?

  • What support do I really need for my book to shine?

This is a room where pleasure isn't the reward for making art.

Pleasure is part of how we get there.

We'll write. We'll read. We'll eat. We'll talk. We'll get quiet. We'll laugh. We'll listen to our bodies.

And for seven hours, we'll see what happens when your creative self gets to become the most important person in the room.

April 24th

Los Angeles

Our guest writer is Francesca Lia Block, and The Thorn Necklace becomes our doorway into writing from trauma: how we approach what has happened to us and transform experience into art without demanding that our wounds become performances.

Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of more than thirty books, including the award-winning Weetzie Bat series. Her writing has been called "transcendent" by The New York Times, and her books have been included in "best of" lists compiled by Time magazine and NPR.

In this long-anticipated guide to the craft of writing, The Thorn Necklace Block offers an intimate glimpse of an artist at work and a detailed guide to help readers channel their own experiences and creative energy. Sharing visceral insights and powerful exercises, she gently guides us down the write-to-heal path, revealing at each turn the intrinsic value of channeling our experiences onto the page.

May 22nd

Joshua Tree

Our guest writer is Susan Rukeyser, and we're entering through The Worst Kind of Girl and exploring personal reinvention: the selves we've been, the selves we've outgrown, and the woman who wants to emerge next.

Susan Rukeyser writes and lives in Joshua Tree, California. She created the Desert Split Open to amplify literary work that is feminist, queer, and “otherwise” radical, and publishes select titles as World Split Open Press, including Feckless Cunt: A Feminist Anthology and her own new collection, Bad Words. Her new novel, The Worst Kind of Girl, is out now from Red Light Lit Press. She is the author of one previous novel, Not On Fire, Only Dying (Twisted Road Publications). Her short work appears in many wonderful places, online and in print, and is collected most recently in Utility Location (Bottlecap Press) and Whatever Feels Like Home (above/ground press).   

Meet our healing artist, Chakra Khan

For our Joshua Tree retreat, the perfectly named Chakra Khan joins us as our Healing Artist, guiding all thirteen participants through a restorative sound bath designed to help us come out of the head, return to the body, and integrate what the day's creative work has stirred.

Thirteen women. The number representing the divine feminine and a year’s moon cycles.

I don't want a seminar or AWP chaos. I don't want you disappearing into a crowd of 200 people wearing name tags. I want to know your name and I want the woman sitting across from you to know it, too.

Women, Writing, Weed & Wine is intentionally limited to 13 guests so that the experience can remain intimate, spacious, and alive.

A weekend return to your creative self

Arrive

There will be beautiful food, space to rest, and the option to participate in cannabis and wine as part of this immersive experience.

We’ll also turn toward the life of the work.

We’ll talk about ways books can reach readers and create opportunities, from small presses and major publishers to independent publishing, readings, teaching, speaking, and other work that genuinely fits you as the writer.

You don’t need to arrive with a business plan.

Write

Guided writing exercises led by the guest writer.

An introduction to The Five Initiations of the Creative Writer Process.

Generous freewriting time to write what comes up for you at your own pace and timing.

A few of us will share.

Integrate

And before we leave, we'll turn toward the question that matters:

What does your creative life require from you now?

You'll make a commitment to yourself and your work—not an elaborate 37-step productivity plan, but something real enough to carry home.

Depending on where you are, that might mean finishing a draft, finding an editor or writing partners, researching presses, testing an audience, planning a submission, or deciding what kind of income you want your book to support.

The point is to choose a 3-6 month next step you can actually live with, alongside people who will remember what you’re making.

The Next Day

A public reading to celebrate your voice. A weed and wine reception/party. Fun times.

Depart

We'll exchange information, collect our gifts, maybe hug strangers who somehow aren't strangers anymore, and return to our lives a little differently than we arrived, ready to bloom with our book.

Your host

Hannah Eko

I’m Hannah Eko, a writer, publishing strategist, and the self-published author of Honey Is the Knife, a book that brings memoir, cultural criticism, spiritual feminism, and self-help into the same room. One of its essays, “Slim Thick Dreams,” won Witness magazine’s 2024 nonfiction literary award.

Making that book taught me how much a writer has to decide beyond what goes on the page: how to shape a book that resists easy labels, how to publish it, how to help readers find it, and how to keep building a life around the work once it exists.

I created Women, Writing, Weed & Wine because I wanted the kind of literary gathering I kept wishing existed: intellectually serious without being stuffy, business-aware without becoming glibly corporate, mystical without requiring anybody to pretend she has transcended being human, luxurious without being precious, and centered around the radical proposition that women can pursue depth and pleasure at the same time.

I'm interested in what happens when you have enough safety, beauty, curiosity, time, and permission to tell your truth.

Everything is taken care of.

Your retreat experience includes the full weekend gathering, intimate instruction and conversation with two writers, guided writing experiences, independent writing time, an optional public reading, and the weekend’s other carefully selected pleasures.

Cannabis participation is optional and reserved for eligible guests 21+.

You'll receive the complete details about location, what to bring, and how to prepare before we gather.

Investment: $1,000

[RESERVE MY CHAIR - April 24th, 2027 - Los Angeles]

[RESERVE MY CHAIR - May 22nd, 2027 - Joshua Tree]

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“Am I writer enough for this?”

Yes.

You don't need an MFA.

You don't need an agent.

You don't need a book deal.

You don't need to Have A Significant Social Media Platform.

And you don't need to arrive knowing exactly what you're working on.

This isn't a reward you earn after becoming a Serious Writer™.

The desire to write is enough reason to spend a day writing.

Want to ask me something first?

You're welcome to have a complimentary 15-minute conversation with me before reserving your chair.

Tell me where you are creatively.

Tell me what you've been wanting to make.

Tell me what's been getting in the way.

Or ask me the practical stuff: cannabis, food, accessibility, privacy, what to bring, what the day actually feels like.

I'll answer your questions and tell you candidly whether I think this retreat is the right space for what you need.

Come talk to me for 15 minutes.

This is a special place.

Unlike Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan, I'm not looking for every woman.

I’m keeping this gathering small because I want you to know the people in the room. I want you to be able to say what you’re working on without having to make it sound conventional or instantly marketable.

I also know a WhatsApp chat alone isn’t the community many writers are looking for.

This retreat is a chance to form relationships you can carry into your writing life: people whose books you’ll want to read, whose progress you’ll celebrate, and who may understand your work before the wider world does.

I'm looking for the woman who has been buying books faster than she can read them.

The woman with the abandoned draft.

The woman with something saved in her Notes app that she keeps returning to.

The woman who has changed and hasn't made art about it yet.

The woman who wants intelligent conversation and delicious food and strange ideas and a little mysticism.

If that’s you, welcome.

Come sit with us.

[RESERVE MY CHAIR - April 24th, 2027 - Los Angeles]

[RESERVE MY CHAIR - May 22nd, 2027 - Joshua Tree]

Here’s to writing the book only you could write.

Here’s to living the life only you could live.

And here’s to your creative liberation.

Love,

Hannah