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
2023:
Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2020:
Judge: Elizabeth Bradfield
2017:
Judge: Jericho Brown
2014:
Judge: Heid Erdrich
Nonfiction
2025: Gail Hosking, Dispatches Decades Later
Judge: Alison Hawthorne Deming (Coming Soon)
2022:
Judge: Joy Castro
2019:
Judge: Elena Passarello
2016:
Judge: Scott Russell Sanders
Fiction
2024:
Judge: Eowyn Ivey
2021:
Judge: Julie Iromuanya
2018:
Judge: Chinelo Okparanta
2015:
Judge: Benjamin Percy