Our Programs
Brink’s education programming harnesses the power of storytelling as tool to change the lives of people living on the brink. With a holistic approach to healing, our courses simultaneously tackle the internal, personal and external, societal barriers that hold our communities back. By helping people rewrite negative personal narratives, find their passion and purpose, and connect to one another, we strive for a world where all people—regardless of background, opportunity, or circumstance—have the drive, resilience, and tools to thrive.
All our programs, courses, and curriculum embrace bottom-up solutions, help individuals to build their own self-worth, resilience, and aspirations, and create a feedback process that allows us to improve and refine our services. We believe that the best way to support marginalized populations and voices is through direct community involvement, so our creation, delivery, and improvement processes all include adaptive collaboration with stakeholders.
Frames Comic Program
Using comics as a method to court low-literacy and reluctant readers, in this program we help students distill a single turning point in their lives into a short graphic memoir. This process works to tackle personal trauma, increase self-sufficiency, and help students gain the tools they need to get out and stay out of prison.
F(r)iction
We create and publish F(r)iction, an art and literature anthology that serves as the primary teaching tool for all our classroom work. Carefully curated to provide our students with culturally relevant, authentic content, each issue explores an important social topic by bringing together a diverse cast of authors—spanning global bestsellers to brand-new talent, underrepresented voices, and work from our own students—to elevate marginalized voices, increase critical thinking, and spark a love of literature.
F(r)iction in the Classroom
Taught in partnership with high school and university professors, we engage students with diverse, contemporary stories using F(r)iction as a mentor text. Students read and write about a range of topics—from heart-crushing memoirs to wild sci-fi comics—engaging reluctant readers, increasing critical thinking and empathy, and sparking a lifelong love of reading. Students come to understand their passion, purpose, and power, and how these key concepts can combine with their strengths to create a future of their own choosing.
Publishing Internship Program
As a vital part of Brink’s mission to elevate new and underrepresented voices in the publishing arena, our internship is aimed at bringing diverse experiences to the literary table. Designed to bridge the gap between learning about publishing and working in the industry, our remote, intensive, fifteen-week program allows participants to develop skills in editing, editorial writing, production, outreach, and marketing.
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