About Writing & Creativity + On-line
mags
- Cafe
Irreal is an internet journal, online since
June 1998, presenting Kafkaesque fiction, it was
born in and inspired by Prague and has attempted
to provide a venue for irreal literature.
- Provokator.org,
an online magazine based in Prague cooperates with
Alchemy and on occasion publishes works by the
featured writers .
- About.com -
poetry section
- Meander
- Fusebox online
magazine dedicated to world fusion poetry, literature,
music and culture
Publishers, Schools & Other Institutions
- Concordia
- Twisted
Spoons Press - based in Prague, publishing English
translations of Central and East European writers as
well as original writing in English by expats.
Prague Related
- Prague-TV -
your ultimate on-line entertainment, dining and travel
guide, as well as a fun place for the ex-pat community
to chat
- Shakespeare & Sons -
Alchemy's first "home" - cafe & bookstore
- ArenaHostel.com -
Alchemy's second home - nice and friendly hostel
- Expats.cz -
expatriate portal for the English speaking international
community of Prague. Services provided include
business, relocation, visa, children, family & parent
information. Find jobs, accommodation, real estate,
investments
and a comprehensive business directory. Membership
is free!
- inter:zone...an
alternative shop/gallery in Prague 3 featuring:
* books and mags in Czech, English and French
* videos: experimental and underground movies,
CD's and DVD's
* clothes: original fashion and jewells by young
designers
Also in Town
- Poeticka kavarna Obratnik holds international
nights of poetry and music every month on the 2nd Wednesday.
Address: Jindricha Plachty 28, 150 00 Praha
5 - Smichov for more infor visit www.obratnik.cz.
- The hard to find Globe Bookstore and Cafe (Pštrossova
6, Prague 1 - behind the National Theatre) has changed
ownership lately and revived it's tradition of autor
readings and music nights. Check out their schedule
on Globe
Bookstore's site.
- Over the years, Jazz Club Zelezna hosted several
ongoing English language readings. The last one being
Poetry in Twilight. But there is talk about a new series
there so keep an eye on their program. The club is
in Zelezna street #16 (just off the Old Town Square)
and has a CD store in front. More at www.jazzclub.cz
- The Prague Center for Further Education provides
Prague's adult community access to learning opportunities.
Classes are designed to offer dynamic and interactive
instruction in areas spanning the arts, film dance,
computers, and the humanities. Many classes are in
English - more info on the Prague-Center site.
- Prague Writer's Festival - Every spring, the Prague
writers festival brings in a wide array of famous and
interesting literary
figures for readings, book signings and panel discussions.
Make sure you get the tickets on time. See more
about the Prague
Writer's Festival.
- The British
Council in the Czech Republic organizes a wide-ranging
program of arts events including music, theatre,
dance, the visual arts, design, film and contemporary
literature. Check out their site for author readings,
exhibitions or seminars.
Anything Else
MegaTokyo (in
the "Anything Else" category) |
Alchemy Performers and Other Writers
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Bishop
Joey
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Simon
Safranek
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Gene
Deitch
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Patrick Seguin - poetry and much more can
be found at RASH
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Ken Nash, Alchemy founder and
chief bottle-washer, spent his youth following
a long family tradition of working for the Mongolian
State Circus. He toured extensively throughout
Asia and Europe caring for the circus’s renowned
performing elephants and albino crocodiles. To
pass the time during long tours, he made up stories
and sang to the animals. www.KenNash.com
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Taylor Mali is the most successful
poetry slam strategist of all time, having lead
six of his seven national poetry slam teams to
the finals stage and winning the championship itself
a record four times before anyone had even tied
him at three. A native of New York City, Mali is
the recently elected president of Poetry Slam,
Inc. and was one of the original poets to appear
on the HBO original series "Russell Simmons
Presents Def Poetry." He has performed and
lectured for audiences all over the world. http://www.taylormali.com/
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Greg Evans read a sampling of
the stories that have been published in The
Cafe Irreal, of which he is a coeditor.
The Cafe Irreal is an internet journal that has
been online since June 1998. Presenting Kafkaesque
fiction, it was born in and inspired by Prague
and has attempted to provide a venue for irreal
literature.
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Jim Freeman participated in the
creation of Alchemy and has often contributed with
his poetry during the open mic segments. This reading
was a sampler from Jim's novels. To get a little
taste, visit www.praguewriter.com
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Attill\a the Stockbroker. Sharp-tongued,
high energy, social surrealist
rebel poet and songwriter. His themes are topical,
his words hard-hitting, his politics unashamedly
radical, but Attila will make you roar with laughter
as well as seethe with anger...
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Gaby Bila-Gunther’s reviews,
profiles and nonfiction articles have appeared
in many cultural magazines in Australia, Germany,
and England. She has self published her own book
of tram tales, Validate & Travel on
a moving tram in Melbourne, Australia 2000. She
is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
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Munayem Mayenin, although born,
brought up and educated in Bangladesh made England
his home for many years. He writes in English all
genres of creative writing including philosophy
and psychology. Mayenin’s first collection
of English poems, Command the Moon, was published
in London in 1993. http://www.munayemmayenin.com
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CitiZen One fixes and transports
the audience. His live performances have been described
as, "blissful, uplifting, and inspiring!" CitiZen
One’s latest CD, "Subway Fire," has
been described as "Addictive." Beatstreet
(UK) says, "A beautiful voice, well recorded." With
4 CD’s under his belt and a 5th on the way,
CitiZen One plans on "touring until the end
of time." http://www.citizenonemusic.com
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Chelley McLear is a performance
poet, born in England and now lives in Belfast,
Ireland. She is part of the poetry group the Democratic
Poetry Party, which meets on the first Friday of
each month in Belfast. www.chelley.biz
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Marc Marcel is a consummate artist,
his talents range from a wide selection of artistic
gifts. He is a dynamic Poet, Writer, Speaker, and
Actor. Marcel is the Author of two books, a novel
Saint Thomas, and a book of poetry Unchained. www.marcmarcel.com
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Louis Armand is an artist and
writer who has lived and worked in Prague since
1994. His reviews, critical essays, poetry, fiction
and translations have appeared in numerous journals
and anthologies, including Sulfur, Meanjin, Frank,
Poetry Review, Stand, Triquarterly, Culture Machine
and Calyx: 30 Contemporary Poets, eds. Michael
Brennan and Peter Minter (Sydney: Paper Bark Press,
2000). http://www.geocities.com/louis_armand/bio.html
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Simone Felice is a New York born
author and word artist writing today in the related
disciplines of fiction, poetry, and song. His work,
both on the page and in performance, is charged
with an honest, hypnotic quality that rises out
of a masterful use of language, imagery and metaphor. http://simonefelice.ghod.org/engine/
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Richard Katrovas first came to
Prague in the months preceding the Velvet Revolution
and was witness to that historic event. A graduate
of the esteemed Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Katrovas
has taught at the University of New Orleans since
1983 and is the founding Academic Director of Western
Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program. www.RichardKatrovas.com
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Clare Wigfall was born in Greenwich
during the summer of 1976. She grew up in Berkeley,
California, and London, and now lives in Prague. Faber
author page The
Loudest Sound and Nothing MySpace:
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Carrie Etter is originally from
Normal, Illinois, Carrie Etter has lived in England
since 2001 and is a lecturer in creative writing
at Bath Spa University. Her poems have been widely
published in such journals and anthologies as The
Liberal, The New Republic, New Writing 14 (Granta,
2006), Poetry Review, Stand, The Times Literary
Supplement, and many others. http://carrieetter.blogspot.com
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Lewis Crofts was born in 1977
in Blackburn, UK. After growing up in Somerset,
he moved to Oxford to study Modern and Medieval
Languages at St Catherine's College. In 2000, he
went to live in Hanover, Germany, where he worked
as a translator and teacher and tried to grow a
handlebar moustache. A year later and still smooth-faced,
he moved to Prague to take up a lecturing post
at the British and American Studies Faculty of
the Charles University.
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