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03 / Fellowship · cohort 04

Bring us your worst idea.

Fund a difficult proposition long enough to become legible, falsifiable, useful, or honestly abandoned.

Not the careless one. The idea you have kept private because it is premature, category-confused, professionally inconvenient, or impossible to defend in the vocabulary currently available to you. Six months of editorial and experimental residency for one difficult proposition.

DurationSix months
FundingTime, editorial pressure, technical help, research access
DeliverableNone required
LocationRemote, or a public bench if one exists
Closes2026-09-30
Governance
Eligibility

Open to individuals and small collaborations. No affiliation, degree, or prior publication required. You must be able to work in public English and consent to labeling fiction as fiction.

Privacy

Applications are read by the editorial desk only. We do not sell applicant data. Rejected materials are deleted within ninety days unless you ask us to keep a redacted residue for the ledger.

Selection

Selection is editorial, not algorithmic. We weigh intellectual honesty, source discipline, willingness to be contradicted, and whether the proposition can become legible in six months.

Conflict of interest

Disclose employment, funding, or prior collaboration that could bias review of your proposal. Conflicts do not automatically disqualify; undisclosed ones do.

Deadline

2026-09-30

Application · form 04-b0 / 5 answered
We read every application twice: once for what it says, once for what it avoids.