The Mesa Refuge invite writers, journalists, editors, filmmakers, and essayists focusing on issues of environmental sustainability, the human economy, and related social equity issues to apply for a residency at the Mesa Refuge.  (Please be advised that while we carefully review each application, this invitation is not a guarantee of a residency).

Located on the southern tip of Tomales Bay near Point Reyes, California, the Mesa Refuge is a writers retreat program established to support writers in their work to examine and disseminate strategies for restructuring the human economy and its relationship to people and nature.  Since its inception 1998, the Mesa Refuge has hosted over 400 resident writers.

The Mesa Refuge offers free 2-or 4-week residencies that provide writers with a unique and effective space to advance their writing projects.  Situated on a bluff overlooking Tomales Bay and surrounding wetlands, the Refuge offers full amenities and catered meals for writers looking for a time away from the interruptions of daily life.

Mesa Refuge’s residents include writers such as Michael Pollan (Botany of Desire); Van Jones (The Green-Collar Economy); Frances Moore Lappé (Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet); David Helvarg (Blue Frontier); Terry Tempest Williams (Refuge); Christian Parenti (Lockdown America); Mark Hertsgaard (Earth Odyssey); as well as journalists from major alternative magazines and dailies, academics, nonprofit leaders from the environmental and sustainable economic arenas, and young emerging writers.

The application deadline for Fall 2008 sessions is May 20th, 2008.  These sessions begin in late August and run through mid November.

Visit their website (www.commoncounsel.org) for more information.