[1] The competition invites online submissions of poems in English from anywhere in the world, and is adjudicated by a board of 10 international editors, which changes every competition, but the winner is selected by a single judge - in 2011, it was former British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
[2] Subsequent judges have been Don Paterson in 2013, Eavan Boland in 2015, and Michael Harris (poet) in 2017.
In 2011 and 2013 the Montreal Prize produced an electronic longlist anthology.
In 2015 the Montreal Prize discontinued the longlist anthology.
The Department of English at McGill University manages the Montreal Prize as of 2018.