Entries for the Roddy Read Song Writing Award have now closed. All entrants will be notified of the outcome before the festival.
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’