The Ravine Field Residency offers writers, artists, and thinkers the opportunity to spend one to four weeks devoted to a project centered on the written word.

Set on a private ranch in Topanga Canyon, the residency is based in a small cabin perched along a ridgeline overlooking the canyon and the Pacific Ocean. Miles of hiking trails wind through the property, crossing oak groves, chaparral-covered hillsides, and open stretches of mountain landscape.

Residents receive a stipend of $500 per week and are encouraged to use their time in whatever way best serves the work at hand—writing, reading, researching, thinking, walking, revising, or simply paying closer attention.

The residency is intentionally quiet. Its primary offering is not programming but conditions: time, privacy, beauty, and the freedom to follow a line of thought as far as it can go.

Applications are open to emerging and established writers, artists, scholars, and independent thinkers working on projects that engage seriously with language, ideas, and creative inquiry.