Application · September 2026

Tell us who you are.

About twenty places. The cohort is selected by application, not by order of payment. Applications are open through 1 August 2026.

Please answer in your own voice. The essay at the bottom is the part that matters most. It is how we read for fit with the way we work and the questions we hold.

A sentence or two, not a CV. We are more interested in what you do than what you are called.
Anything that helps us see you: website, writing, social, recent work.
There is a question, a place, or a non-human teacher (a creature, a tide, a stretch of coast) that has shaped how you see the world. Tell us about it. What did it teach you, and what are you still learning from it?
0 / 500 words
What surrounds islands?
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