Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing:
2025 Judge Kristen Radtke
The judge for the 2025 Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing is Kristen Radtke. Radtke is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021) and Imagine Wanting Only This (2017). She is the creative director of The Verge. The recipient of grants from the Whiting Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, her work has been nominated for a PEN/Jean Stein Award, an Eisner Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Metal, and numerous National Magazine Awards.
The Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing seeks to award writing considered hybrid and cross-genre in nature. Hybrid writing often includes multiple mediums such as visual and written elements that together accomplish a result impossible to achieve alone. Text-based hybrid writing harnesses form and content in singular ways to create dynamic work primed to offer new perspectives, voices, and ideas. Hybrid writing is not experimental or ekphrastic. Instead, it is a style that prioritizes the combination of multiple literary and artistic elements to produce a readable, engaging piece of work. Initial screening for the prize is facilitated by Brink Editors. The contest winner, selected by the contest judge, will be announced in early May
CONTEST RULES
The contest is open to all writers and artists who identify their work as hybrid or cross-genre in nature.
Submit up to 15 pages
One previously unpublished submission per entrant
All entries will be read anonymously. Before you submit, please remove your name and any other identifying information from your submission
We will contact you regarding your submission through Submittable, so please ensure your contact information is accurate
Family, colleagues, intimate friends, and contributors previously published in Brink Literary Journal are ineligible
Simultaneous submissions are allowed
CONTEST PRIZE
$1,000
Publication in the fall issue of Brink Literary Journal
4 copies of the journal issue in which the winning submission appears
