The jury of Mili Dueli changed during the seasons. In the first season, in the first rounds, there was no jury, so the passage of the author depended only from the Readers’ votes. Soon, the Organizer saw the need for professional literary criticism, prompted by the writer and retired teacher Mr. Simo Golubović and his comments on the competition poems. Seeing the motivation among poets for quality literary criticism, the Organizer proclaimed Simo Golubović as the first member of the jury in our history.
In the first season, also, Danja Gašpar Đokić, a well-known Balkan writer, joined the jury. She originally applied to participate as an author, but the Organizer recognized her talent for writing quality literary criticism, and invited her to the jury.
According to the rules of the contest, every author who wins the Mili Dueli gets an invitation to be a member of the jury in the following season. In this way, intense collaboration between the authors was made possible even after the victory. The exception is the winners of the first, sixth and eighth seasons who were not recognized as literary critics.
Since 2017, the Organizer has been an active member of the jury. Before each season, the Organizer sends out invitations for participation to the jury. Since 2020, the Organizer has decided on a policy of expanding the jury – family, in order to better understand the linguistic diversity of this prestigious poetic event.