Our latest online issue is now here!
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We are pleased to announce that our winner for the 2018 New Alchemy Contest is Michelle Acker!
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We accept submissions for our summer online issue until April 30. Send us your nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and work that doesn't fit into any of those old-fashioned genre boxes.
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The submission period for our 2020 Poetry Book Prize is now open. We love poems that slice us to shreds. We love words that hold us, frighten us, and comfort us. Click the link below for more information.
We're currently seeking artwork for our print and online issues. Send us your best and weirdest. Plus, there's no submission fee for artwork. So pass it on!
We won the Golden Wheatstalk Award for Cover Design at AWP! We're proud as peaches. Click below to see more artwork from Stacy Howe.
Are you in the area? Or do you just want to see us suffer in the Arctic desert? Follow through for release parties, readings and events of past and future. Take a look at our beautiful, though pale, faces.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sara Adams’ poem, “IMPERMANENCE IS THE ONLY THING THAT WORKS IN FAHRENHEIT AROUND HERE” is featured in our online summer issue, 37.2. We asked her a few questions about craft. Here are her answers. Q: Do you have any super secret rituals that help your writing process? A: I’ve discovered that writing works on a […]