The Brink Prize for Hybrid Fiction will be administered to the winner of a literary contest for one piece. The contest is judged annually by a different individual who is a noted professional in the literary field. The contest winner will receive $700 and their piece will be published in Brink Literary Journal’s spring issue.
CONTEST RULES
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The contest is open to all writers and artists who identify their work as hybrid or cross-genre in nature
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Submit up to 15 pages of unpublished work
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One previously unpublished submission per entrant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, current students of the judge, and contributors previously published in Brink Literary Journal are ineligible
CONTEST PRIZE
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$700
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Publication in the spring issue of Brink Literary Journal
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4 copies of the journal issue in which the winning submission appears
APPLICATION DATES AND FEES
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Submissions open July 1 - 31
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$25 non-refundable entry fee
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Brink Prize for Hybrid Fiction || he/him
Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation in northwest Alberta, Treaty 8 territory. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta. He is the author of This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms, A History of My Brief Body, A Minor Chorus, Coexistence, and, most recently, The Idea of an Entire Life. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.