I put my head down in Ongarue and finished the draft by Hamilton. It also meant I had more time to write while on board - and write I did, completing an entire draft of an essay I’d been struggling with. Still, this meant I could listen to Kiwirail’s audio commentary about the King Country and travel over the Raurimu Spiral for the first time. I live in Taumarunui, and needed to travel south to board the Kiwirail train at National Park station before heading north. My Surrey Hotel writing residency really started and ended on the train to Auckland. Antony Millen of Taumarunui was runner-up of the 2016 Surrey Hotel Steve Braunias Memorial Writers Residency in Association with The Spinoff Award – and used his time at the spacious and splendid Grey Lynn hotel to write 28,000 words of his next YA novel.
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