writers’ expeditions

Decency Be Damned – Writing Workshop – Yorkshire, England – May, 2020

Kirsten Koza / August 19, 2019

Decency Be Damned: a seven-day roving writing workshop across Yorkshire, England, hosted by Writers’ Expeditions and Exploring York…

Raiders of the Last Platter – Jordanian food adventure

Kirsten Koza / December 27, 2018

We’ve made the reservations, and you just need to bring your appetite for our epic epicurean adventure crossing…

Deer Hunting in Paris by Paula Young Lee

Kirsten Koza / October 7, 2013

There are books that contain an ultimate moment that for years I read aloud and share with anyone…

In bookstores!

Wake Up and Smell the Shit: Hilarious Travel Disasters, Monstrous Toilets and a Demon Dildo edited by "the Canadian lunatic" Kirsten Koza.

"A hilarious journey to the other side of travel - A collection of rollicking tales by veteran travel writers who share the common, horrific side of travel. You'll laugh, shudder and wince. A must read." - Deston Nokes (Travel Writer)

"Forged in a Den of Scum and Villainy..."
Read this review and a sample at Amazon.

Lost in Moscow: A Brat in the USSR by Kirsten Koza

CBC Radio Canada declares Koza’s Lost in Moscow “the ultimate what-I-did-last-summer essay ever.”

CHRY radio Toronto says “Kirsten Koza is like Judy Blume on acid.”

Lost in Moscow is now available as an e-book from Kindle and Kobo internationally.

Kirsten’s adventure “Mare’s Milk, Mountain Bikes, Meteors & Mammaries; a nipply night in nomad’s land” has been published by Travelers' Tales in The Best Women’s Travel Writing, a collection of the best travel stories from 2012.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s cycling expedition in Kyrgyzstan.

Kirsten’s story “Easter Island and the Chilean with the Brazilian” is in Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana.

Click here to see photos from Kirsten’s Easter Island bike trip.

Kirsten’s story “Chasing Tornadoes” is in The Best Women’s Travel Writing Volume 9.