Once again for the second year in a row, Subway Literature and Tratto Pen travelled together. But the cultural event and its literature contest are celebrating their sixth anniversary. And the journey, after Milan, Rome and Naples, is a journey that includes the free distribution of 3,750,000 booklets printed on recycled paper, to invade Venice in 2006 and Palermo in 2007.

Subway with Tratto Pen have brought an entire world of quality readers and writers to life. If you're under 35 years of age and feel enveloped by the sacred fire of creativity, or you simply like to invent stories or poems, with the help of the expert committee selected by Subway (and prodigious agility of the synthetic Tratto tip), you can see yourself distributed, read and appreciated in the most popular subway stations or ferry docks in the proverbial romantic Venice. Naturally, you have to be one of the 12 contest winners but you don't have to be a romantic. To date, Subway has promoted a mix of modern literary styles where one of the most enjoyable reading pleasures is discovering how many and which differences young authors succeed in expressing their talents.

Conceived and organised by the Laboratory E20 Association, the contest is held on the national level. In fact, two of its winners, who won the Campiello Youth Prize in the 2004-2005 edition, induced the Saggiatore publishing house to publish an anthology in 2006 entitled Underground Italian Poets, and underground poets and authors are Subway participants.

However, the authors in question are no longer as "underground" as the title leads to consider. An this is why there's Tratto Pen.