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Magazine Stand :: Permafrost – Issue 46

Permafrost Issue 46 literary magazine cover

“America’s Farthest North Literary Magazine,” Permafrost is a literary journal run by the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Readers can enjoy both print with online access and online-only issues each year featuring high quality poetry, prose, and hybrid works from both established and emerging writers. The newest print issue (46) includes poetry by Joshua Boettiger, Margaret Carter, Tyler Heath, Carol Durak, Emily Wall; fiction by Charlie Rogers, Alex Juffer; nonfiction by Brian Benson, Angela Townsend; and a hybrid piece coupling poetry and art by Dale Williams. Cover art: “Germination Sequence” by Kyle Agustines, 2024. Visit the Permafrost website to read the full content online.

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Books :: 2015 Permafrost Prize Series Award

scavengers becky hagenstonBecky Hagenston brought home the 2015 Permafrost Prize Series Award with her story collection Scavengers, chosen from nearly 150 entries. As the winner, Hagenston saw her collection (her third) published by the University of Alaska Press this year in both paperback and digital editions.

From the publisher’s website:

These are the people and situations—where the familiar and bizarre intermix—that animate Becky Hagenston’s stories in Scavengers. From Mississippi to Arizona to Russia, characters find themselves faced with a choice: make sense of the past, or run from it. But Hagenston reminds us that even running can never be pure—so which parts of your past do you decide to hold on to?

An unforgettable read, Scavengers is now available.

Permafrost – Winter 2014

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Permafrost is an unusually entertaining collection of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, drama and art published in “the farthest north literary journal in the United States.” All of the works provide perspectives that are fresh and introduce a broad variety of creative talent that doesn’t often appear in the same place. If there’s one characteristic throughout the entire collection, it’s the detailed imagery.

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