About Us · Journey of a Book

Objectives

Our main goals are:

To gather stories about cities written by young authors across Europe and Russia and publish them all on one book and at web-site
To select the 20 best stories;
To gather visual material of the 20 winning stories and publish it on the website;
To send the original book to travel from winning author to winning author;
To publish the winning stories both in a book and e-book format.

The aim of the project is creating a unified intellectual and creative space for the project participants and for future readers of the book.

The general aim of the project is to replace national stereotypes with real people.

Our Vision:

We believe that a good literary work has enormous power to change something in the reader and move them. It can form the reader’s world and expand their horizons. Reading can also be a very intimate act that quietly forms a connection between the author and the reader. We at Project Journey of a Book wish to make this connection, to inspire people and create a source of new information and to create a base for different views on other cultures to be shared.

In order to achieve this we want to gather short stories from youth living across Europe and Russia, stories about their perception of the city, about the culture in which they live.

We wish to contextualize the elements of individual cities that disassemble prejudices, as well as obtain a contemporary vision of the world and future of today’s youth.

Stories

Each author will write a story about their home, their city, their culture, the people that surround him or her. They will write about their lives. It’s essential that every story is a work of art, which transports us to a certain place, enriched with the author’s point of view and their unique perception of reality. We want the reader to be a part of an amazing moment, of a true life experience.

Each text must try to be transcendental; it is more about what the place evokes, stirs and engages in the author, rather than the place itself. With the Journey of a Book we will create a strong bond between the authors and, thanks to them, between the young citizens all over Greater Europe. The bond will be strong, as it will be a bond between the most profound things in them; their own experiences and their art. They will be bound by the same literary and aesthetic experiences, the same emotion and vision. Each author must be driven by the willingness to show the essential experience of his or her city to the others and share it with them.

Visual material

Together with the stories there will also be a visual material – pictures and videos, based on short stories. Visual material will be contributed by authors and published on this web site.With this it will be even easier for the reader to step into the world of the story, to feel closer to other artists and to understand our dream even better.

Journey

After the selection of 20 stories, one original book will be sent on a journey among the writers and they will write theirs stories by hand. This journey will be filmed and shared on the website and social networks.

Language

Stories will be written writers national language or in English. All the non-English stories will be translated into English and then both versions will be published on the website.