Submission Window: January 1st – 31st, 2026
Payment: Poem (per poem): $25, Work (less than 1500 words): $50, Art (1-3 Images) : $50, Art (4+ Images): $100, Work (more than 1501 words): $100
Theme: Hybrid fiction with the theme of Chaos
Brink has two reading periods per year: January and July.
January 1 – 31 we will open for hybrid and cross-genre submissions of any length and style engaging the theme of Chaos.
Through Submittable, we accept a variety of hybrid work from work that resists categories, Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation.
We are interested in writing that presses boundaries by using more than one medium to tell a story; work that looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the issue’s theme and the notion of being on the brink.
Brink has two reading periods per year: January and July.
January 1 – 31 we will open for hybrid and cross-genre submissions of any length and style engaging the theme of Chaos.
Through Submittable, we accept a variety of hybrid work from work that resists categories, Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation.
We are interested in writing that presses boundaries by using more than one medium to tell a story; work that looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the issue’s theme and the notion of being on the brink.
Initially, you might approach chaos at face value. After all, everything feels like it is on fire. Long held beliefs, institutions, and environments are increasingly destabilized through the intervention of human hands. Accelerated capitalism is actively destroying the world as we know it, one ecosystem, community, or country at a time. That particular flavor of chaos is self-evident. We’re interested in something with a bit more bite.
Consider how chaotic energy also gestures towards creativity. Something limitless and unmeasurable, boundless and ongoing. A bristling potential always on the verge of combusting on the spot. Chaos is a swirling intensity, but it often already exists before it is identifiable or named.
Tell us about the chaos of silence or stillness. The entanglements, to paraphrase Karen Barad, of matter and meaning. How would you write about chasms of nothingness? Or rework the myths of the primeval deities from which Chaos came? Plant life, paradoxes, or hybrid literary forms all gesture towards the possibility of chaos. So buckle in. Take us to that brink.
Please submit only unpublished pieces and notify us if your simultaneous submission is accepted elsewhere.
Open submissions to Brink Literary Journal are free.
Payment for each contributor is one copy of the issue in which their work appears as well as:
$25 || Poem (per poem)
$50 || Work (less than 1500 words)
$50 || Art (1-3 Images)
$100 || Art (4+ Images)
$100 || Work (more than 1501 words)
Via: Bring Literary.
