Entries for the Roddy Read Song Writing Award will are now open and will close 5pm AEST, Saturday 16th September 2023.
The award is again sponsored by Maton Guitars, with a prize of a guitar and hard case. The winner will perform their winning song on the Progress Hall stage on Sunday 5th November and also be guaranteed a place in the 2024 Maldon Folk Festival.
Contest coordinators: Trevor Shard (m) 0404 069019 and Lee Merzel (m) 0411 783532
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Previous Winners
2022 Cate Taylor “Dust and Gold”
2019 Matt Glass – ‘The Last Time’
2018 Hannah Schmidli – ‘Ellanore’
2017 Cathy Dobson – ‘Jericho Rose’
2016 Tracey Hogue – ‘Forget You Not’
2015 Peny Bohan – ‘Jonny’
2014 Ann-Maree McKee & Bernard Robertson – ‘If You’
2013 Melissa Main – ‘Black Silk’
2012 Michael Waugh – ‘Heyfield Girl’
2011 Oh Pep! – ‘Fooling Around’
2010 Lauren Lee Williams – ‘Stash Your Dreams’
2009 Tony English – ‘Leaving Liverpool’
2008 Geoff McArthur – ‘Sparkle and Shine’
2007 Rose Bygrave – ‘Erarerama’
2006 Neil Robertson – ‘Celebration’
2005 Heidi Hibberd – ‘Lyndee I Have Lost Your Number’
2004 Mark Cryle – ‘Anytime You’d Fall’
2003 Caithlin Meave – ‘Buddha and Steel’
2002 Bruce Watson – ‘Dad’s Clothes’
2001 Bek Fletcher – ‘Fly’
2000 Ben Smith – ‘One Little Black Face’
1999 Graham Dodsworth – ‘Excuse Me’
1998 Mark Jackson & Cassy Nunan – ‘I Just Received’
1997 Tiffany Eckhardt – ‘On My Knees’
1996 Geraldine Hughes – ‘Caravans’
1995 Enda Kenny – ‘My Own Road’
1994 Steve Dennis – ‘Don’t Cry for Me’
1993 Don Cowling – ‘The Ordinary Man’