Brink is an independent nonprofit publisher of hybrid writing. Through our publications, Brink Literary Journal and Brink Books, we create space in the literary world for hybrid, cross-genre, and unclassified works by emerging and established writers and artists.
Hybrid writing often includes multiple mediums such as visual and written elements that together accomplish a result impossible to achieve alone. Text-based hybrid writing harnesses form and content in singular ways to create dynamic work primed to offer new perspectives, voices, and ideas that prioritize the combination of multiple literary and artistic elements to produce a readable, engaging piece of work.
We accept a variety of creative work from every genre and work that resists any genre. We are most interested in work that presses creative boundaries, uses more than one medium to tell a story, and both looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the theme of each issue alongside the idea of being on the brink.
Please familiarize yourself with Brink prior to submitting your work. Single issues and subscriptions can be purchased from our website. We read every submission and respectfully request you wait one full submission period to resubmit if your work has been declined.
What Brink Books Is Seeking
We are interested in work that presses boundaries by using more than one genre, medium, or form. Brink’s first book, Malleable and True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology from Brink Literary Journal (September 2025), compiles published and brand-new work from the first five years of the journal alongside reflections on hybridity and generative prompts. After the anthology launches, we will publish two books of hybrid writing per year.
We welcome submissions of cross-genre, hybrid, and visual hybrid books. We will consider finished manuscripts sent through Submittable. We cannot consider pitches or proposals for work-in-progress. A great way to learn more about the type of work we love is to read an issue of the journal and some of our public access pieces on our website.
Agented and un-agented submissions are welcome. We do accept translated work.
How to Submit
Our open submissions period will run May 1, 2025 through September 1, 2025. When you submit, please include a brief cover letter in Submittable that contains the following:
1) A short (1-2 paragraph) description of your manuscript
2) A short author’s and/or translator’s bio
There is no fee to submit. We cannot accept unsolicited manuscripts by email or paper mail. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but authors must notify Brink immediately if a manuscript is accepted elsewhere. We cannot accept manuscript revisions after a manuscript has been sent in; you will need to withdraw on Submittable and resubmit.
Timeline
Brink Books is run by a small editorial staff, so we thank you in advance for your patience as we read and respond to submissions. We aim to treat each manuscript with consideration and care, so it may be several months before you hear back from us.
Inquiries
If, after reading the guidelines above, you have a question about how to submit, please contact us at: info@brinkliterary.com.