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.
Malleable and True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology (September 2025) is a dynamic, innovative collection for readers, writers, and educators that explores the complexity and craft of hybrid writing.
Malleable and True breaks open the concept of hybridity, finding space both inside genre and outside its boundaries, inviting readers, writers, and educators to explore the form’s multifaceted potential. In this anthology, curiosity is the driving force, as select contributors from Brink Literary Journal’s first ten issues re-engage with their previously published pieces in three ways, offering new work, craft prompts, and reflections on hybrid writing.
ENGAGE: Alongside the original piece, you’ll find new work that engages with the original in a fresh and meaningful way, such as updates to the original piece, process notes, new pieces that are connected to the original, and so on.
GENERATE: To foster engagement and exploration, each contributor has provided generative prompts related to their work and hybrid writing in general. This empowers readers and educators to delve deeper into the world of hybrid writing, sparking creativity and dialogue.
REFLECT: Hybrid work is notoriously slippery and hard to define. That’s why we’ve asked our contributors to share their reflections on what hybrid writing means to them, providing valuable insight into its diverse forms and potentials.
An accessible resource for anyone passionate about boundary-pressing work, Malleable and True is an interactive experience designed to engage audiences through critical thinking and creative expression.
Hanna Bartels
Jason Bulluck
Granville Carroll
Victoria Chang
Wendy Cheng
Michelle Donahue
Beth Ann Fennelly
Kathy Fish
Gyasi Hall
Jessie Kraemer
Sally Lawton
Stephanie Macias
Mary Mandeville
Sarah Mangold
Elizabeth McTernan
Sarah Minor
Chelsea Mosher
Yanique Norman
Bennett Sims
Anna Joy Springer
Rachelle Toarmino
Lucy Wainger
Elissa Washuta
Arisa White
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Preview Malleable and True: A Craft Anthology
Read Sarah Minor's interactive essay "Lunette," part of the bonus digital content from the anthology.
Why Does Hybrid Writing Matter?
Hybrid writing requires more than one modality to tell the story it needs to tell. It is a literary form that blends multiple elements, such as visual and textual expressions, or combines fiction and nonfiction or poetry to accomplish a result impossible to achieve otherwise.
The editorial and publication process for hybrid writing can be tricky and expensive, a complication that often excludes it from literary publishing. It’s not uncommon for hybrid writing to require extra space on the page, color printing, or unique layouts that require extensive time commitments from the design and editorial team. This is problematic because hybrid writing often emerges from writers who identify themselves, or the stories they tell, as nontraditional.
Observing and working to correct this omission, Brink holds space for writing that looks and feels different on the page. Hybrid writing is not experimental or ekphrastic. It is a finished product born from vision and hard work. It is a literary style that prioritizes the combination of multiple literary and artistic elements to produce a readable, engaging piece of work that, in its complexity and texture, honors the author’s voice.
By publishing hybrid writing, we empower voices previously kept silent because their stories were too messy and too complicated for print. We believe that difference is a strength, that these diverse voices and methods of storytelling make not only our art but our communities stronger.
In reflections that will be published in Malleable and True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology, our authors share what hybridity brings to their own work.