SEND US YOUR SUBMISSIONS The day is finally here! SEND US YOUR SUBMISSIONS AT montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.com We eagerly await your art💫

ONE MORE DAY UNTIL SUBMISSIONS ARE FINALLY OPEN FOR THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE Polish up your final poetry submissions because we can’t wait to read what you send in! Check out our website for more information at www.montrealpoetryprize.com

new from above/ground press: TWO, by Rose Maloukis / @aelaq.bsky.social @montrealprize.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

FIVE MORE DAYS Our jury is eager to read your poetry that you can submit in just five days! Read about the jury and find information on the website at montrealpoetryprize.com

SEVEN DAYS UNTIL SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE - Are you excited? Because we certainly are! Find out more information about submissions and the prize on our website at montrealpoetryprize.com

Our fantastic 2024 juror rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social right where he belongs. Well done, rob!

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE FINAL JUDGE NATALIE DIAZ Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe (Akimel O’odham). Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her collection "Postcolonial Love Poem" (Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social, 2020). #poetry #poetrycommunity

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SINÉAD MORRISSEY Sinéad Morrissey has published eight books with Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social, including her latest collection, “On Balance” (2017), which was awarded the Forward Prize. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER BRANDY NĀLANI MCDOUGALL Brandy Nālani McDougall (Kanaka ʻŌiwi, she/her/ʻo ia) is the author of “ʻĀina Hānau, Birth Land” (University of Arizona Press, 2023). Visit poets.org/poet/brandy-...! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

Had fun at the launch of the one and only @scrivener1980.bsky.social run by McGill English students. May have purchased some light merch. :)

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SITHEMBELE ISAAC XHEGWANA Sithembele Xhegwana is an award winning South African poet, essayist, and novelist. One recent work is “Dark Lines Of History” (Mwakana Media and Publishing, 2023). #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

Another fine poet on board for the Montreal International Poetry Prize jury.

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER DEREK WEBSTER Derek Webster's 2024 collection “National Animal” (Véhicule Press) won the QWF's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (@officialqwf.bsky.social). Visit him at www.derekwebsterwriter.com! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER KAYLA CZAGA Kayla Czaga is the author of “Midway” (@houseofanansi.bsky.social, 2024), “Dunk Tank” (Anansi, 2019), and “For Your Safety Please Hold On” (@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social, 2014). #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

More poetry from issue 47! Hear Alex O’Neill read at our launch party on December 1, and prepare to read more in our upcoming print edition.

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER IONA LEE Iona Lee is a writer from Edinburgh whose debut poetry collection, Anamnesis (Polygon, 2023), won the Somerset Maugham Award. Follow Lee at www.ionalee.com! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

So pleased that Jaswinder Bolina is joining the jury of the Montreal International Poetry Prize! He’s such an original talent.

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER JASWINDER BOLINA Jaswinder Bolina's most recent book is the award-winning ”English as a Second Language and Other Poems” (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social, 2023). Find him at www.jaswinderbolina.com and @jaswinderbolina.bsky.social! #poetry #poet #poetrycommunity

Congratulations to our 2024 finalist Bren Simmers for winning the Latner Griffin Writers' Trust Poetry Prize. 👏👏👏

Adding your support to @triohousepress.org TODAY makes us eligible for matching grants! Please donate any amount to support our mission to publish literature that promotes empathy and lifts up underrepresented voices and perspectives! Thank you. www.givemn.org/organization...

S*BSTACK ALERT: so i didn't win the ottawa book award (and other mournful tales, , but the ottawa small press fair is this weekend, so that's cool, robmclennan.substack.com/p/so-i-didnt...

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SACHIKO MURAKAMI Sachiko Murakami published four collections, including "Render" (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social, 2020) and "Get Me Out of Here" (@talonbooks.bsky.social, 2015). Find out more about Murakami at sachikomurakami.com! #poetry #poet #poem #poetrycommunity

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Shani Mootoo / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/11/12-o...

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SHERYDA WARRENER Sheryda Warrener is the author of the three poetry collections and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2023.  She is a lecturer in Creative Writing at UBC @ubccrwr.bsky.social. #poetry #poet #poem #poetrycommunity

Congratulations to our 2022 Finalist Leanne Dunic for winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize!

We are delighted that Leanne Dunic and Fred Wah both took home awards at the 2025 BC & Yukon Book Awards Gala! ⁠ Wet by Leanne Dunic won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and literary icon Fred Wah received the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence! Congratulations, Leanne and Fred!

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER ROBIN S NGANGOM Robin S Ngangom is a bilingual poet and translator who writes in English and Manipuri. His latest collection is “My Invented Land” (Speaking Tiger, 2023). Find out more at www.montrealpoetryprize.com! #poetry #poet #poem #poetrycommunity

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Reading this Wednesday in Calgary at Pages Books with the wonderful @toluini.bsky.social and @josephkidney.bsky.social

📚 #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 #NMAReadingList#NMA25 #CanadianPoetry #ArcPoetry

"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)

New work from our 2024 juror @sarahwolfson.bsky.social out @thewalrus.ca.

New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!

newly posted: Sarah Wolfson : How Does a Poem Begin? / @sarahwolfson.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/sara...

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

Congratulations to our 2022 juror Heather Christle for her new volume of poems Paper Crown. What wonderful news to start the day!

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! ☘️🔑☘️

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-...

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!

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...

✨ 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...

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...

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...