American Songwriter Lyric Contest
www.americansongwriter.com

Backstage Magazine Band Contest
www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip

Belham Valley Records 
thesupersites.com/artscontest/index.html

Billboard Song Contest 
www.billboard.com/songcontest

Composers Commissioning Program
www.composersforum.org

Cooch Music- Amateur Songwriting Contest
www.coochmusic.com

Dallas Songwriters Assoc.
www.dallassongwriters.org

Great American Song Contest
www.greatamericansong.com

Holkamp-AGO Award in Organ Composition
www.agohq.org/organize/index.html

International Songwritng Competition
www.songwritingcompetition.com

John  Lennon Songwriting Contest, The 
www.jlsc.com

Make A Star 
www.makeastar.com

McAllister Awards for Opera Singers
members.iquest.net/~opera

Mid-Atlantic Song Contest
saw.org/saw/masc17.html

NACUSA Young Composers Competition
www.music-usa.org/nacusa

Napa Valley Music & Wine Festival 
www.napafest.com 

New Folk Concerts for Emerging Songwriters
www.kerrville-music.com/newfolk.htm

Portland Songwriters Assoc. Annual Songwriting Competition
www.pdxsongwriters.org

Pulitzer Prize in Music
www.pulitzer.org/Entry_Forms

Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Songwriter Showcase
www.bluegrass.com/Pages/folksshowcase.html  

Songwriters' Drive-In Song Contest
www3.sympatico.ca/charles.crepeau

Rome Prize Fellowship in Musical Composition
www.aarome.org/prize.htm

Song Spree Songwriting Competition
www.home.earthlink.net/~spree

Songs Inspired By Literature Songwriting Comp.
www.siblproject.org/competition.html

Telluride Troubadour Contest
www.bluegrass.com/Pages/troubadour.html

Unisong International Song Contest
www.unisong.com/uisc/index.html

Thelonious Monk Institute Int'l Jazz Composers Competition
www.monkinstitute.com/index5.html

USA Songwriting Competition
www.songwriting.net

If you know of any good songwriter contests in addition to the ones listed below, please email their web address with the subject line "NEW CONTESTS" to swd@songwritersdirectory.com.  Please note that we only list contests that have their own websites.

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