Permafrost Magazine

23/09/2025

There is still time to submit to the 2025 Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction. The winner of the contest receives $1000.00 and publication through the University of Alaska Press. This year's contest will be judged by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Get your manuscripts in today!

More info and sumbit link here:

As the editors of the farthest north literary magazine, we’ve chosen an unconventional, expansive place to live. That, too, is what we seek in your submissions. We look for clarity and text that exemplifies an understanding of each genre's conventions without shying from the vulnerable, the diffic...

20/02/2025

Happy to announce the winner of the Permafrost Book Prize, Angela Jane Fountas and her manuscript ANOTHER KIND OF SYMMETRY.

Congratulations, Angela! And thanks to all who submitted - we received so many great manuscripts!

07/01/2025

Congratulations to these finalists and to all who submitted. So many excellent manuscripts, and a lot of difficult choices.

We plan to announce the winning manuscript by March.

01/10/2024

Today is the last day to submit to the 2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction. The winner of the contest receives $1000.00 and publication through the University of Alaska Press. This year's contest will be judged by the awesome Alaskan author Eowyn Ivy.

Get your manuscripts in today!

https://www.uaf.edu/permafrostmag/annual-contests/index.php

07/08/2024

Permafrost is now accepting submissions for the 2024 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction.

Final Judge: Pulitzer finalist Eowyn Ivey.

Deadline: October 1

Submit at: https://www.uaf.edu/permafrostmag/annual-contests/index.php

03/10/2023

Afer taking a break to work through a substantial backlog, and revamping some of our processes, we are now open for submissions for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrid and art.

15/09/2023

Permafrost is thrilled to forward Latorial Faison's NURSERY RHYMES IN BLACK, Permafrost Book Prize in Poetry winner, to the University of Alaska Press for publication.

"A gem of a manuscript," writes contest judge Aimee Nezhukumatathil.

Congratulations, Latorial!

08/09/2023

So excited about the Permafrost Book Prize winners in Nonfiction and Poetry! With much gratitude to judges Joy Castro and Aimee Nezhukumatathil. These manuscripts will be published by University of Alaska Press soon. Congratulations, Brook and Latorial!

28/09/2022

Just a few days left to submit your nonfiction manuscript to Permafrost for the 2022 book prize

21/09/2022

Have you submitted your nonfiction manuscript to Permafrost yet? Submissions close October 1st!

16/09/2022

Here's our exciting news with a message from last year's Editor in Chief herself. Thank you so much for all your hard work, Alison!

The newest edition of Permafrost Magazine is out!!

Fiction The Argument as Overheard by Gertrude Stein – Mark Crimmins Split Lip – J Saler Drees EF-3 – Charles Malone À la Carte Blanche – Zach Powers The Log – Keigh Ahr The Trees They Grow So High – Jacqueline Vogtman Greenville, California: 2021 by Sage Cruser Art Greenville, Californi...