The Access Program is a sister residency to The Owner’s Cabin where we invite on board creators from different disciplines, like authors, playwrights, musicians, screenwriters, essayists, etc.
The residency is open to those who are currently working on a project and are looking for an experience that can further inform their work; allowing them to disconnect, gain inspiration, and really engage in deep focus.
The program covers the travel costs to/from the vessel, but does not provide stipend; only access to an unfamiliar and intriguing environment.
Past Participants
Ryan Chapman
July 2026
Germany, France, Belgium
Ryan Chapman is a Sri Lankan-American writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who lives in Kingston, New York. His second novel The Audacity (Soho Press, 2024) was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and received praise from Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and Literary Hub. His debut novel Riots I Have Known (Simon & Schuster, 2019) was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by Electric Literature and The Marshall Project. His criticism and humor pieces have appeared in Bookforum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New York Times, McSweeney's, The Los Angeles Times, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Millay Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the James Merrill House, and currently teaches at Vassar College and the Sewanee School of Letters. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor at BOMB.
