The Emerging Writer Fellowship in Hybrid Writing offers editorial support, guidance, and mentorship to previously unpublished writers who demonstrate exceptional promise in hybrid and cross-genre writing.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:
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One-on-one developmental editing with an emphasis on developing the innovative hybrid aspects of the selected piece
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Advice and guidance on career development via the submission and publication process
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Publication in a print issue of Brink
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Four copies of the journal issue in which the winning submission appears
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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.
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Emerging writers who have not yet published a book-length collection are eligible.
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Writers with forthcoming books may enter if their first book is published after April 2025.
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Writers who have edited and published an anthology or a collection of other writers' works remain eligible.
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Submit up to 15 pages in one previously unpublished submission per entrant.
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All entries will be read anonymously. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your submission.
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Family, colleagues, intimate friends, and contributors previously published in Brink Literary Journal are ineligible.
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APPLICATION SUBMISSION DATES & FEE
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June 17 - July 31, 2025
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$22 one-time submission fee
Grace Morse
Fellowship Winner 2025 || she/they
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Grace Morse is a nonfiction writer from New Orleans. Their writing can be found in Craft Literary Magazine, where it was shortlisted for the 2023 Flash Prose Prize, Aunt Chloe Literary Magazine, Cellar Door Literary Magazine, and others. She was also a finalist for Brink Literary Journal's Award for Hybrid Writing in 2025. Grace’s writing and teaching have most recently been recognized by awards and fellowships through the University of Iowa, where they earned an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program. When she is not writing, she is dancing, reading tarot, breathing deeply, getting pissed off, rioting quietly, loving loudly.
AP Paulson
Fellowship Winner 2024 || they/them
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AP Paulson is a farmhand, writer & painter currently residing in Minneapolis Minnesota. Paulson's current work is centered on communicating & representing their experiences while moving frequently as a farmhand, navigating communal living in transitory spaces, and experiencing rural living as a queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent person. Currently, Paulson is working on their debut chapbook “Muck.”
Simone Zapata
Fellowship Winner 2023 || she/her
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Simone Zapata is a queer poet and educator from San José, CA. Her recent work appears, or is forthcoming from Beloit Poetry Journal, Foglifter, Reed Magazine, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Community of Writers and the REEF residency, and holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She lives in Oakland, and is a poetry editor for MAYDAY Magazine.