The Prague Literary Calendar is a tool designed to help you reclaim your life through art and the physical presence of others.

In 2023, Mark Stroup began collecting Prague’s events on a Google Calendar. When he met Lydia Titterington, the project found its home. Lydia built the site, funded the project, and continues to curate the calendar today. Mark moved to Pittsburgh in 2026, but the mission remains.

Lydia’s Statement:

I spent years in office jobs, working 9 hours a day at a computer. I was stuck in a loop, masking severe social anxiety with a drinking/partying culture because I had no other way to cope. Like many other approaching-thirties people, this coping mechanism exhausted itself, quite catastrophically. I invested in therapy.

I also paid for an online short course on Anglo-Saxon literature, where I learnt how our literature is built on people sitting meadhalls, telling stories. But, I learnt about these humans, via a chat forum. It was interesting, but I was isolated even further. And so I joined a Book Club.

I used the events already happening in Prague—theatre, workshops, and book clubs—to be a human again.

Curating the Prague Literary Calendar has made me feel comfortable speaking to groups of people, it’s lead me to write again, have an exhibition, discuss T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland and meet so many kind wonderful people.

The Prague Literary Calendar is a tool to help you manage your time and your personal development. We curate events across Six Pursuits, pillars of education used to cultivate ourselves, not for a grade, but for our own sanity. Those Pursuits are: Reasoning & Inquiry, Observation & Discipline, Composition, Social Fortitude, Rhetoric & Eloquence and Dialectics & Debate.

Our logo, designed by Mirella Birella, has big ears because community is built on listening and paying attention. Mice represents the Prague Literary Calendar, because they’re all building secret things that you might miss in the blink of an eye, surviving against all odds, and like us, they’re very cute.

From my experience using the Prague Literary Calendar I feel alot better, I’m not saying it’s in replacement of therapy, but being around others and using this city has really helped me. I believe the reason I’ve improved is that humans evolved as animals meant for the meadhalls or the communal fire, like those Anglo-Saxon’s literature I began with. When I isolated myself behind a desk, that primal instinct was not being nourished.

I hope you use this calendar to nourish yourself.

If you have any questions please write to contact@pragueliterarycalendar.com.