Annual Book Prize
The Permafrost Book Prize is currently on hiatus until further notice.
Most Recent Winners by Genre
Book Prize Winners on UA Press
Poetry
Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Judge: Elizabeth Bradfield
Judge: Jericho Brown
Judge: Heid Erdrich
Nonfiction
2025: Gail Hosking, Dispatches Decades Later
Judge: Alison Hawthorne Deming (Coming Soon)
2022: Brook McClurg, A Dictionary of Modern Consternation
Judge: Joy Castro
Judge: Elena Passarello
Judge: Scott Russell Sanders
Fiction
Judge: Julie Iromuanya
2018: Roe Wall, During-the-Event
Judge: Chinelo Okparanta
Judge: Benjamin Percy