Montreal International Poetry Prize
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The Montreal Poetry Prize is committed to poetry and poets around the world. For our 2024 winner and finalists, visit us at:
https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/
The next competition opens in January 2026.
https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/
The next competition opens in January 2026.
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Spread the word—the Montreal International Poetry Prize returns in January 2026.
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
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Cannot wait to read your work!
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Cannot wait to read your work!
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
BORIS DRALYUK
Boris Dralyuk is the author of “My Hollywood and Other Poems” (@pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2022), and an award-winning translator and critic.
Find him @bdralyuk.bsky.social and bdralyuk.wordpress.com!
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #poetrycommunity
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST JURY MEMBER OF THE 2026 MONTREAL POETRY PRIZE
FELICITY PLUNKETT
Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic living in Sydney, Australia. Follow her @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social !
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #englishpoetry #poetrycommunity
FELICITY PLUNKETT
Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic living in Sydney, Australia. Follow her @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social !
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #englishpoetry #poetrycommunity
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST JURY MEMBER OF THE 2026 MONTREAL POETRY PRIZE
FELICITY PLUNKETT
Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic living in Sydney, Australia. Follow her @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social !
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #englishpoetry #poetrycommunity
FELICITY PLUNKETT
Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic living in Sydney, Australia. Follow her @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social !
#poetry #PoetryPrize #poet #poem #englishpoetry #poetrycommunity
Spread the word—the Montreal International Poetry Prize returns in January 2026.
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Spread the word—the Montreal International Poetry Prize returns in January 2026.
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
Once again, we will award $20.000 CAD for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. For more information visit us at www.montrealpoetryprize.com.
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity
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Nick Thran (Existing Music) is headed to the Fraser Valley Writers Festival in Abbotsford! Catch him on Sat, Nov 8 running a poetry workshop + reading new work on the theme of Sound during a panel. Don’t miss it!
#poetry #FVWF #NickThran
#poetry #FVWF #NickThran
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Nick Thran (Existing Music) is headed to the Fraser Valley Writers Festival in Abbotsford! Catch him on Sat, Nov 8 running a poetry workshop + reading new work on the theme of Sound during a panel. Don’t miss it!
#poetry #FVWF #NickThran
#poetry #FVWF #NickThran
To anyone who is currently looking to place their work: The Moth Poetry Prize is back, adjudicated this year by Ishion Hutchinson.
Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!
Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!
The Moth Poetry Prize is now OPEN!
One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.
More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
One of the biggest prizes in the world for individual unpublished poems is back for 2025 – and we're very excited to announce that this year Ishion Hutchinson is joining us as judge.
More info below and on our website: bit.ly/mothpoetry25
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
To anyone who is currently looking to place their work: The Moth Poetry Prize is back, adjudicated this year by Ishion Hutchinson.
Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!
Thank you for putting on your contest again, @themothmagazine.bsky.social!
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Longlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards, SHADOW PRICE by Farah Ghafoor is an “Urgent debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press
💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry
💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Longlisted for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards, SHADOW PRICE by Farah Ghafoor is an “Urgent debut.” — Winnipeg Free Press
💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry
💛 SHADOW PRICE is available now. You can purchase it from your favourite bookseller here: houseofanansi.com/products/sha... #booksky #canadian #poetry
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Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social
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📚 #NMAReadingList
🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social
@josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.”
🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF
#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry
🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social
@josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.”
🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF
#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry
August 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📚 #NMAReadingList
🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social
@josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.”
🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF
#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry
🏆 Poetry — @arcpoetry.bsky.social
@josephkidney.bsky.social ’s Gold-winning poem is a surreal, lyrical take on Alberta mythmaking. “All my sorrows cauterized into desire.”
🔗 zurl.co/5FIXF
#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry
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"held in no hands, made
without love, lovelier
than the intense attraction
between your eye-songs
and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)
without love, lovelier
than the intense attraction
between your eye-songs
and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)
To Feel by Tim Bowling — Montreal International Poetry Prize
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August 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"held in no hands, made
without love, lovelier
than the intense attraction
between your eye-songs
and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)
without love, lovelier
than the intense attraction
between your eye-songs
and these desperate invocations of your little wanting heart."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
To Feel by Tim Bowling (2025 @montrealprize.bsky.social)
New work from our 2024 juror @sarahwolfson.bsky.social out @thewalrus.ca.
Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...
And Then Came the Day | The Walrus
Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table
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August 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
New work from our 2024 juror @sarahwolfson.bsky.social out @thewalrus.ca.
New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!
newly posted: Jessie Jones : Two poems / @gooselane.bsky.social ;
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Jessie Jones : Two poems
Applying the face Near god, near good. Proscenium in shades of aristocratic veins. Vacant rotunda. Oil drops spun wide by light, b...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!
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newly posted: Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin? / @sarahwolfson.bsky.social ;
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Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin?
How does a poem begin? How does a poem begin? The question sparks in me a small rebellion. How should I know? Why should I...
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August 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
newly posted: Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin? / @sarahwolfson.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/sara...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/sara...
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Save the date! On Saturday, July 26, all are invited to attend a free online reading by four Canadian authors, followed by questions and audience discussion. We hope to see you there! Join me, Drew McEwan, Léa Taranto, and Madelaine Caritas Longman for an evening of writing on #OCD. #CanLit 1/2
July 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Congratulations to our 2022 juror Heather Christle for her new volume of poems Paper Crown.
What wonderful news to start the day!
What wonderful news to start the day!
Heather Christle's newest collection of poetry, Paper Crown, will be released on August 5th, 2025! Pre-order your copy at weslpress.org.
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations to our 2022 juror Heather Christle for her new volume of poems Paper Crown.
What wonderful news to start the day!
What wonderful news to start the day!
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Happy pub day to ENJOY YOUR STAY AT THE SHAMROCK MOTEL by Andrew Kaufman! We hope to see you at its launch tomorrow night at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W., Toronto) - starts at 7 PM, free and all welcome!
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June 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Happy pub day to ENJOY YOUR STAY AT THE SHAMROCK MOTEL by Andrew Kaufman! We hope to see you at its launch tomorrow night at TYPE Books (883 Queen St. W., Toronto) - starts at 7 PM, free and all welcome!
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Congratulations to Rosanna Deerchild for winning the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award 2025 for Poetry in English for She Falls Again!
We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...
We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...
June 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Congratulations to Rosanna Deerchild for winning the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award 2025 for Poetry in English for She Falls Again!
We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...
We're honoured to have published this significant and important work from Rosanna Deerchild. You can learn more about She Falls Again here: chbooks.com/Books/S/She-...
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Hey! You should come out to the ottawa small press book fair today! I made shortbread! Noon to 5pm, Tom Brown Arena, upstairs;
June 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hey! You should come out to the ottawa small press book fair today! I made shortbread! Noon to 5pm, Tom Brown Arena, upstairs;
Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!
✶❂✷ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟕𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 ✷❂✶
✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 ✦
𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐞
❀ A seismic new voice in poetry — raw, mythic, and electrifying.
↠ Read the full announcement ✶
metatron.press/news/metatro...
✦ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆 ✦
𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐞-𝐎𝐥𝐮𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐞
❀ A seismic new voice in poetry — raw, mythic, and electrifying.
↠ Read the full announcement ✶
metatron.press/news/metatro...
Announcing the Winner of the 7th International Metatron Poetry Prize
Prairie-based Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye wins the Prize with 'The Goat’s Tongue'
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June 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Congratulations to Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye!
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Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @shawnalemay.bsky.social's Apples on a Windowsill (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)!
Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...
Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...
June 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Read @amandaearl.bsky.social's review of @shawnalemay.bsky.social's Apples on a Windowsill (pub. @palimpsestpress.bsky.social)!
Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...
Lemay teaches us how to be attentive to the beauty in our lives, in ordinary things and their poetry, and in our own ordinariness...
www.thetemzreview.com/earl-lemay-3...
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✨ July in CWC ✨
If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam.
@alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...
If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam.
@alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...
June 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
✨ July in CWC ✨
If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam.
@alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...
If you’ve been thinking of joining an intensive year-round writing community/program, I can’t speak highly enough of our CWC fam.
@alinaetc.bsky.social, @garthgreenwell.bsky.social, @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Ken Babstock = July
www.consciouswriterscollective.com/join-the-wai...
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More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
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Next week Mcr Poetry Library will be hosting this brilliant reading showcasing some of our PhD researchers & poets 'Entangled with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater and Domenic Suntrapak'. Join us online or in-person @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
ENTANGLED Poetry Reading with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater, & Domenic Suntrapak, 20 Jun 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
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June 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Next week Mcr Poetry Library will be hosting this brilliant reading showcasing some of our PhD researchers & poets 'Entangled with Mark Pajak, Anita Slater and Domenic Suntrapak'. Join us online or in-person @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, (Ottawa, ;
readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu,
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readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-aboveg...
June 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! August 7 at RedBird, (Ottawa, ;
readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-aboveg...
readings/chapbook launches by : Jason Christie, Monty Reid, Beatriz Hausner, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas + Mandy Sandhu,
abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/the-aboveg...
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TONIGHT, 6PM at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street! Parliamentary Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi reads with Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain! you should come!
June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
TONIGHT, 6PM at the Sunnyside Library, 1049 Bank Street! Parliamentary Poet Laureate Chimwemwe Undi reads with Ottawa Poets Laureate David O'Meara + Véronique Sylvain! you should come!