Submit your best for a chance to win $1000 (CAD). Entry fee is reduced to a special price! The Far Horizons Award for Poetry is specifically for emerging poets—eligible writers have yet to publish their poetry in book form. Poets contributing to The Malahat Review have won or been nominated for National Magazine Awards for Poetry and the Pushcart Prize.

Entry fee (comes with a one-year print subscription):
$25 CAD for Canadian entries
$30 USD for entries from the USA
$35 USD for entries from elsewhere

*You may submit up to three poems per entry.

Meet the judge:

Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood 2020). His writing has appeared in journals including The Malahat Review, Vallum, Brick, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Grain, CV2, and Canadian Notes & Queries. He also won the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award and The Malahat Review’s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry. He holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria.

Read an interview with him to find out what he's looking for in a winning poem.

Full contest guidelines available on The Malahat Review website.