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This Journey is a chance to travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world for a unique adventure, a deliberate passage in living the writer’s life. It is an opportunity to write from inside the heart of the city of Prague. Together we will witness this powerful and ancient place with the elegant eye of the writer. Artists have always journeyed out into the world to fill up their senses; to open their eyes, ears and hands to new experiences and new ideas. In this Journey we will live, eat, write and sleep in one of the most magical cities in the world, a city that will inspire you and set fire to your imagination. This is a powerful moment in history to be a writer, an amazing and vital time to bear poetic witness to what we see, what we remember and all that we can imagine. For these days you will live and work in a supportive community with a small group of fellow writers to learn the skills and rhythms that will allow you to get your life into your writing, and daily writing into your life. On this Journey we are called not to be tourists, but to be travelers. There is great adventure, great responsibility and great possibility in being a traveler. It invites us to calibrate our senses, to capture and experience everything the city has to offer. Together we allow ourselves to be fully present in each moment, whether that moment is joyful, boring, fascinating or filled with possibility. We allow everything we observe and experience to become raw material for our writing. Like many beautiful cities, Prague has been known to change people. As you will discover, the city has stood at the crossroads of some of the most important moments in European and world history. You will pass under windows where Mozart played, you will see a cathedral built by miners and a crypt made of human bones. You will stand at a small rise in the street on Wenceslas Square, where thousands of people gathered to protest communism and reclaim their country. You will sit at the graves of poets and kings and have tea outside Kafka’s father’s bookshop. You will walk through courtyards where Hitler once strode and you will stand inside a cell that held Czech resistance fighters in WWII. You will see a building that dances and a ceiling that couldn’t be hidden. You will watch people juggle fire and make wishes on the Charles Bridge. You will explore castle gardens where popes, beggars and soldiers once stood to see the city spread out below them. You will see the horizontal lines on walls and buildings, evidence of the 500 year flood that keeps trying to wash the city away. And you will stand beneath stained glass windows where the light is so rare that Czech folks swear it is where the sun goes to die. sc00f85d12By traveling to Prague as a working writer, you step into each of these moments and places, each of these histories. You join a lineage of some of the most passionate and important writers and artists that have ever lived. In Prague, myth is often as important as fact. You will be invited to create your own myths and to invent your own stories, deciding for yourself what is real and what is not. This is our chance to put away our compass, lay down our assumptions, and grab our notebooks to dive in and see what we find The City of Prague Prague, the golden city of a thousand spires, lies at the epicenter of Bohemia and has emerged from its years behind the Iron Curtain as an international center for poetry and the arts. The city is amazingly well preserved (having escaped most of the bombing of World War II) making visitors feel as if they have wandered into a medieval city in its prime. Prague 139We journey to the city in the spring, by far the most beautiful time of the year to visit, when the city and gardens explode with green after the long winter season.