Writers' Expeditions

22/07/2024

To women who travel and write: Travelers' Tales publishing house and Lavinia Spalding (anthology editor) are now accepting story submissions to be considered for their next book in The Best Women's Travel Writing series. You can follow the link for the guidelines on the editor's website (and do read those), but when you make your submission, please do it through the publisher here: https://submit.besttravelwriting.com/author_info.cfm (the deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2024).

“In story after story,” Andrew McCarthy wrote about volume 11 of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, “the refreshing absence of bluster and bravado, coupled with the optimism necessary for bold travel, create a unifying narrative that testifies to the personal value and

10/07/2024

Writers of any genre of fiction and nonfiction: You are invited to leave your safety nets at home and join us for a rollicking week of writing across Yorkshire, where you’ll be encouraged—and enabled!—to go beyond the bounds of decency. (Back again for 2025: the grand finale of our creative adventure will be led by an internationally bestselling crime novelist.) Just follow the link for all the drool-worthy details. https://kirstenkoza.com/expeditions/decency-be-damned-writing-workshop-yorkshire-june-2025/

09/07/2024

We just had a couple have to postpone their 2024 Dracula Expedition booking until 2025, so we can now accommodate two more participants for this Halloween in Romania (either as two single bookings or one double): You're invited to join our annual Vlad Dracula Expedition, a seven-day dinner party and Halloween celebration through Romania (Oct. 28 - Nov. 3) which includes our private dinner on Halloween night in the room where real-life Vlad Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) was born (inside the medieval walled town of Sighisoara), and our adventure also includes the ultimate costume party at Bran Castle ("Dracula's Castle") celebrating Romania's Day of the Dead. All of the details: prices, itinerary, inclusions, exclusions, etc. are posted on our website, so please just follow the link.

This seven-day (small group) adventure in Romania includes dining on Halloween night in the chamber where real-life Dracula was born in 1431...

06/07/2024

I recently returned from a fabulous adventure in Turkmenistan. Here are some of my photos - and yes, I am sitting with a friend on the edge of The Gates of Hell, AKA Darvaza gas crater, and yes, hell is so hot that I was worried my pants would melt. --Kirsten Koza

03/07/2024

Writers of any genre of fiction and nonfiction: You are invited to leave your safety nets at home and join us for a rollicking week of writing across Yorkshire, where you’ll be encouraged—and enabled!—to go beyond the bounds of decency. (Back again for 2025: the grand finale of our creative adventure will be led by an internationally bestselling crime novelist.) Just follow the link for all the drool-worthy details. Expedition dates are June 2nd through 8th, 2025.

Leave your safety nets at home and join us for a writing workshop across Yorkshire, where you'll be encouraged to go beyond the bounds of decency.

23/06/2024

You're invited to join our annual Vlad Dracula Expedition, a seven-day dinner party and Halloween celebration through Romania (Oct. 28 - Nov. 3) which includes our private dinner on Halloween night in the room where real-life Vlad Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) was born (inside the medieval walled town of Sighisoara), and our adventure also includes the ultimate costume party at Bran Castle ("Dracula's Castle") celebrating Romania's Day of the Dead. We'd been sold out for the last couple of years but have had a couple of recent cancellations (congratulations to a certain horror writer and his lovely spouse who are going to have a baby) and we can now accommodate four more participants! All of the details: prices, itinerary, inclusions, exclusions, etc. are posted on our website, so please just follow the link.

This seven-day (small group) adventure in Romania includes dining on Halloween night in the chamber where real-life Dracula was born in 1431...

03/06/2024

I am heading to Turkmenistan today and won't be able to make posts or answer any questions on Facebook until June 17th, since all social media is banned there.

13/05/2024

On our first night of Decency Be Damned (our roving writing expedition across Yorkshire), we dined at the Guy Fawkes Inn, where the infamous plotter himself was born in 1570.

10/05/2024

We are back in Yorkshire preparing for the arrival of our Decency Be Damned participants!

07/11/2023

One of this year's Dracula Expedition participants made this stunning video of our recent adventure across Romania.

Take a journey through România with us! As we explore Vlad the Impaler and his legacy. ...

03/11/2023

A few pics from our 2023 Halloween Expedition in Romania!

28/10/2023

More mischief in Romania. The Dracula Expedition 2023.

26/10/2023

We have started our Dracula Expedition 2023! (Bucharest, Romania)

15/03/2023

Writers of any genre of fiction and nonfiction: You are invited to leave your safety nets at home and join us for a rollicking week of writing across Yorkshire, where you’ll be encouraged—and enabled!—to go beyond the bounds of decency. (New in 2024: the grand finale of our creative adventure will be led by an internationally bestselling crime novelist.) Just follow the link for all the drool-worthy details.

Leave your safety nets at home and join us for a writing workshop across Yorkshire, where you'll be encouraged to go beyond the bounds of decency.

31/10/2022

We’ve made all the reservations—you just need to pack a costume and your inner child (or demon) for this howling Halloween party across Romania. Our seven-day (small group) expedition includes attending the ultimate costume party at Bran Castle (known as Dracula’s Castle, built circa 1377) which was owned by Vlad’s grandfather (Mircea the Old). And on Halloween night we’ll be dining in the chamber where real-life Dracula, Vlad Drăculea (known as Vlad the Impaler), was born in 1431. We’ll be sleeping that night, in a inn of similar vintage, just a few doors down from the home where Vlad was born, inside the (UNESCO) medieval walled city of Sighișoara. We were the first people (and are the only) to ever host a Halloween dinner party in the room where Dracula was born, and each year we barely make it through cocktails before we are regaling each other with spine-tingling experiences from our lives. Follow link for full details and prices:

This seven-day (small group) adventure in Romania includes dining on Halloween night in the chamber where real-life Dracula was born in 1431...