Amtrak Offers Writer’s Residency on Trains

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As seen on Galley Cat… Amtrak is Offering Writer’s Residency on Trains [www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/amtrak-is-offering-writers-residency-on-trains_b83009]

By Dianna Dilworth on February 24, 2014 1:17 PM... Writers residencies just got mobile. Amtrak is now offering free rides to writers on long rides so that they can get some writing done. The idea came from a Twitter. Inspired by an interview that discussed writing on trains, writers Zach Seward and Jessica Gross tweeted their desires for a writers in residency program on Amtrak. Amtrak responded to the tweet and offered Gross the chance to test drive the idea. She took a ride from New York to Chicago and back. The Wire has the story:
She rode the rails from NYC to Chicago to NYC again, writing the whole time. No one else on the train knew about her residency, Gross said, or if they did, they “definitely didn’t act like it.” Now, perhaps the most important point: The residency was free. According to Gross, all Amtrak asked was that she send out a few tweets while she was traveling, and do an interview for the company’s blog at the end of her trip.
So, dear literary readers of SoHa Happenings in Colorado, how about a trip from the new improved Union Station to Chicago or San Francisco, or wherever your muse takes you?


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