Brink Literary Journal

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Brink Literary Journal publishes boundary-pushing, cross-genre, hybrid work in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation, with two annual reading periods.

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryOpens Jan 1, 2027

Open submissions are free and accepted during Brink's January and July reading periods. The journal seeks boundary-pushing hybrid or cross-genre fiction that engages the issue theme and the notion of being on the brink; submissions are capped at 100.

nonfictionLiteraryOpens Jan 1, 2027

Open submissions are free and accepted during Brink's January and July reading periods. The journal seeks boundary-pushing hybrid or cross-genre nonfiction that engages the issue theme and the notion of being on the brink; submissions are capped at 100.

otherOpens Jan 1, 2027

Open submissions are free and accepted during Brink's January and July reading periods. The journal accepts translation and hybrid work that resists categories, with an emphasis on writing that uses more than one medium and engages the issue theme and the notion of being on the brink.

poetryLiteraryOpens Jan 1, 2027

Open submissions are free and accepted during Brink's January and July reading periods. The journal seeks boundary-pushing hybrid or cross-genre poetry that engages the issue theme and the notion of being on the brink; submissions are capped at 300 poems.

other

Brink Books will be open for finished hybrid, cross-genre, and visual hybrid book manuscripts in 2027; agented and unagented submissions are welcome, and translated work is accepted. Pitches, proposals, email submissions, paper-mail submissions, and manuscript revisions are not accepted. Response may take several months.

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