The Details: The final deadline for the 2011 Montreal Prize was July 11. Our editors are now hard at work reading poems entered from over 50 countries! The prize winner announced in December 2011. See our timeline for more details.

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

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.

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.