We are excited to announce our nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to those who were nominated. These pieces were featured in either Issue 39.1, our winter print issue, or Issue 39.2, our summer online issue: · “Abecedarian for the English Language” by Daniel Blokh · “Swimming Nude” by Valerie Arvidson · [...]
2018 Pushcart Nominations!
We are excited to announce our nominations for the 2018 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to those who were nominated. These pieces were featured in either Issue 39.1, our winter print issue, or Issue 39.2, our summer online issue: · “Abecedarian for the English Language” by Daniel Blokh · “Swimming Nude” by Valerie Arvidson · [...]
What the Poem Wants: A Phone Call with Jericho Brown
Interview by Kendalyn McKisick JB: Hello? KM: Hello? Jericho? Yes? This is Kendalyn. Hey Kendalyn. How are you? I’m good, how are you doing? I’m good, but you know, I’m gonna tell you the truth. I mean, ‘cause you know God is good. Maybe I’m not realizing the goodness of God completely, because I am [...]
“The Full Landscape of the Page”: An Interview with Amy Jo Trier-...
Amy Jo Trier-Walker is the winner of Permafrost‘s 2016 New Alchemy Award. Her piece, “Go Nowhereing,” is featured in this year’s online issue, 38.2. The editors asked her a few questions about writing and hybrid genres. Here are her answers. Q: When did you first realize that genre boundaries are for chumps? A: Ha! I don’t know [...]
Nominations and Notables!
We are super excited to announce our six nominations for the 2017 Pushcart Prize. These six pieces were featured either in our winter print issue 38.1 or our summer web issue 38.2: Kayleb Rae Candrilli for “Dancing in the Colosseum” (Winter Print 38.1) Joseph Dante for “Pugnacious Boy” (Winter Print 38.1) Andrew Ruzkowski for “I’m sorry [...]
Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize Winner!
We at Permafrost Magazine are very excited to announce the winner for our 2016 Nonfiction Book Prize! After months of deliberating over more than one hundred amazing manuscript submissions, all such a pleasure to read, our judge Scott Russell Sanders has chosen Anand Prahlad’s The Secret of a Black Aspie as this year’s winning manuscript. We [...]
2016 New Alchemy Contest Winner and Finalists
We at Permafrost are pleased to announce that our winner for the 2016 New Alchemy Contest is Amy Jo Trier-Walker! Her cut-up collection, which includes “Go Nowhereing,” “A Lost Hand,” “Medicine-Say,” “Better-Day Pile,” and “Catching-Basket Day,” demonstrates the type of craft that takes joy in risk, and we are so excited to have her gorgeous, experimental, genre-bending work represented [...]