Submissions for the 2026 competition are open!
The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readerships, and to exploring the world鈥檚 Englishes.
We award one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of forty or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately sixty poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology.
This year's Prize Judge is Mojave author and member of the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O鈥檕dham), Natalie Diaz. Diaz is the author of "Postcolonial Love Poem," winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her first book, "When My Brother Was an Aztec," was winner of an American Book Award.
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