Montreal International Poetry Prize

The Montreal International Poetry Prize (aka The Montreal Prize) is an annual poetry competition based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was launched in April 2011 during National Poetry Month.

The prize invites online submissions of poems in English from anywhere in the world, and is adjudicated by a board of international editors, which includes Valerie Bloom (Jamaica and England), Stephanie Bolster (Canada), Frank Chipasula (Malawi and USA), Fred D'Aguiar (Guyana and England), Michael Harris (Canada), John Kinsella (Australia), Sinéad Morrissey (Northern Ireland), Odia Ofeimun (Nigeria), Eric Ormsby (England), and Anand Thakore (India). In 2011 the Prize Judge is former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.

The $50,000 (CAD) prize is thought to be the world's largest monetary prize for a single poem.

In addition to the winning poem, the Montreal Prize publishes, with Véhicule Press, 150 "long-listed" poems in an electronic anthology, and fifty shortlisted poems in a printed "Global Anthology".