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.
The Emerging Writer Fellowship in Hybrid Writing offers editorial support, guidance, and mentorship to previously unpublished writers who demonstrate exceptional promise in hybrid and cross-genre writing. The fellow will work alongside the Brink editorial team to prepare their piece for publication. The virtual fellowship takes place over a period of four months in the fall and provides the following:
- One-on-one developmental editing with an emphasis on developing the innovative hybrid aspects of the selected piece
- Advice and guidance on career development via the submission and publication process
- Publication in a print issue of Brink
- Four copies of the journal issue in which the winning submission appears
GUIDELINES
The fellowship is open to all writers and artists who identify their work as hybrid or cross-genre in nature or who are interested in the process of learning how to hybridize their work in a readable, creative manner.
- Emerging writers who have not yet published a book-length collection are eligible
- Writers with forthcoming books may enter if their first book is published after April 2026
- Writers who have edited and published an anthology or a collection of other writers' works remain eligible
- Submit up to 15 pages in one previously unpublished submission per entrant
- All entries will be read anonymously. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your submission
- Family, colleagues, intimate friends, and contributors previously published in Brink Literary Journal or Brink Books are ineligible