Writing Competition: Permafrost 2022 Nonfiction Book Prize

We are now accepting submissions for the Permafrost 2022 Nonfiction Book Prize.

Since 2014, Permafrost Magazine has held an Annual Book Prize contest for the best manuscript (genre alternating each year). The winner of the contest receives $1000.00 and publication through the University of Alaska Press. Each year, the book prize genre alternates through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Prizes:

The winner will receive $1,000 and publication of their manuscript through the University of Alaska Press.

Eligibility:

We welcome manuscripts from all writers writing in English. We will not consider manuscripts that have already been published elsewhere including self-published works. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. No past or present student or paid employee of the University of Alaska Fairbanks is eligible to enter. Affiliates of UAF and their spouses are not eligible for entry.

When to Submit:

We will begin accepting submissions on August 1, 2022 with a deadline of 11:59 p.m., Alaska Standard Time, October 1, 2022.

Manuscript:

Manuscripts must be a minimum of 150 pages long. All entries will be read anonymously. Please ensure that the author’s name does not appear on the manuscript. We will accept manuscripts of essays or full-length memoir, nature and travel writing, literary journalism, or anything else that falls into the category of creative nonfiction.

We accept only electronic submissions through our Submittable page.

Entry Fee: There is a $20 entry fee to submit your manuscript to the contest.

Notifications:

A winner will be selected around March 1, 2023. Results will be emailed shortly thereafter.

Judge:

We are very excited to announce that Joy Castro will judge our 2022 Book Prize in Nonfiction.

Joy Castro is the author of seven books: the memoir The Truth Book (2005); the literary thrillers Hell or High Water (2012), Nearer Home (2013), and Flight Risk (2021); the essay collection Island of Bones (2013); the short story collection How Winter Began (2015); and the forthcoming historical novel One Brilliant Flame (2023). She edited Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (2013), co-edited special issues of Brevity on gender and race, and serves as the founding series editor of Machete, a nonfiction series at The Ohio State University Press. A former Writer in Residence at Vanderbilt University, she is the Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where she directs the Institute for Ethnic Studies and teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx studies.