Competition

The Details: The final deadline for the 2011 Montreal Prize was July 11. Our editors read just over 3,000 poems from 59 countries. The prize winner was announced on December 15 2011 at 7pm EST. See our timeline for more details.

Global Jury of Editors: The Montreal Prize’s international jury of ten editors represents our ambition to bring poets together from around the world, and to read from a global perspective.

A major poetry prize funded by poets: Read about our funding model and our historic attempt to turn the traditional patronage model on its head.

Largest Prize of its Kind: The Montreal Prize awards the largest prize for a single poem and, significantly, it is the only $50,000 prize that is juried in a blind process (i.e. the jury doesn’t see author names). This completely levels the field and places the focus on the poem, not the poet.

Anthologies

Global Anthology: Our 50 finalists will be published in the Montreal Prize’s 2011 Global Poetry Anthology, to be published in December 2011.

The Longlist: The poems in our longlist have been published in a 2011 Longlist e-Anthology, which is available for free download.

Our Editors: Meet our global team of editors!

Selection Process: To preserve editorial independence, each poem is assessed by one editor only. This means the poets working as our editors have not had to make any committee compromises, and the poems they select represent each editor’s own judgment.

Our Publishers: Our anthologies will be published by Véhicule Press; check them out at www.vehiculepress.com.

 

Headlines

Updates: Here’s Poets & Writers Magazine on our December 15th announcements, with a video of our 2011 Broadside poet, Linda Rogers, giving a reading.

In The Media: Check us out at Cafe Babel, the Huffington Post and at Poets & Writers.

Here’s a nice mention of one of our longlisted poets, Robyn Black.

In the Poetry News Ted Hughes has been inducted into Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Check out this project of one of our shortlisted poets, Emeka Okereke: Invisible Borders Trans African Photography Initiative.

Check out the awesome and humbling work being done by Splendors of Dawn, an African poetry foundation based in Ghana.

Here’s Seamus Heaney on the meaning and value of literary prizes.

Media: For information on the Montreal Prize in the media please go to our newsroom.