Long Poem Prize

The Malahat Review, Canada’s premier literary magazine, invites entries from Canadian, American, and overseas authors for the Long Poem Prize. Two awards of $1,000 CAD each are given. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have also won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. The Long Poem Prize is offered every second year, alternating with the Novella Prize.

2011 Deadline

The deadline for the 2011 Long Poem Prize is February 1, 2011 (postmark date).

Guidelines

  • A single poem or cycle of poems with a minimum of 10 published pages to a maximum of 20 published pages. A published page is up to 32 lines (or less), including breaks between stanzas.
  • No restrictions as to subject matter or aesthetic approach apply.
  • Entry fee required:
    • $35 CAD for Canadian entries
    • $40 US for American entries
    • $45 US for entries from Mexico and outside North America
  • Entrants receive a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for themselves or a friend.
  • Entries previously published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere are not eligible.
  • Entrants’ anonymity is preserved throughout the judging. Contact information (including an email address) should not appear on the submission, but along with the title on an enclosed separate page.
  • No submissions will be accepted by email.
  • No entries will be returned.
  • Entrants will not be notified by separately by letter about the judges’ decisions even if a SASE is included for this purpose.
  • Winners and finalists will be notified via email.
  • Winners will be announced with the publication of their entries in The Malahat Review’s Summer 2011 issue, on the Malahat web site, and in Malahat lite, the magazine’s quarterly e-newsletter, in April 2011.
  • Send entries and enquiries to:
    The Malahat Review
    University of Victoria
    P.O. Box 1700
    Stn CSC
    Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
    Canada
    Email: malahat@uvic.ca
    Telephone: 250-721-8524
    Fax: 250-472-5051

Entrants wishing to pay by credit card may download and complete our Credit Card Payment Form then enclose it with their entries.

Previous Long Poem Prize Winners

  • 2009
    • matt robinson
    • Marion Quednau (won Gold at the 33rd Annual National Magazine Awards)
  • 2007
    • Aurian Haller
    • Harold Rhenisch
  • 2005
    • Margo Button (won Gold at the 30th Annual National Magazine Awards)
    • Harold Rhenisch (earned Honourable Mention at the 30th Annual National Magazine Awards)
  • 2003
    • Roseanne S. Carrara
    • Ann Fisher-Wirth
  • 2001
    • Sylvia Legris
    • Alice Major
  • 1999
    • Shane Book
    • Sonnet L'Abbé
  • 1997
    • Brian Bartlett
    • Stephanie Bolster
  • 1995
    • Barbara Nickel
    • Esta Spalding
  • 1994
    • Marilyn Bowering
    • Rhea Tregebov
    • Sue Wheeler
  • 1993
    • Pain Not Bread
    • Matthew Remski
  • 1992
    • Mia Anderson
    • D’Arcy Randall
    • Marjorie Stelmach
  • 1991
    • Brian Bartlett
    • Crispin Elsted
    • Janice Kulyk Keefer
    • Jennifer Mitton
  • 1990
    • Elisabeth Harvor
    • Marjorie Stelmach
    • Stephan Torre
  • 1989
    • Angela Ball
    • Mary di Michele
    • Douglas Burnett Smith
  • 1988
    • Mia Anderson
    • Judith Pond