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Plot Twist – Writing Adventure – Across Scotland and Yorkshire – Sept. 2026

Kirsten Koza / October 16, 2025

Plot Twist: a writing workshop and carefully curated creative adventure across Scotland and Yorkshire, September 7-13, 2026 Write…

Plot Twist – Writing Adventure – Across Scotland and Yorkshire – Sept. 2025

Kirsten Koza / December 15, 2024

September 2026’s exiting new Itinerary has launched!!! Click here for all the details and prices! Plot Twist: a…

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.